This began about a month ago.

After I do a GB search, click on one of the results and go to that thread, when I click on the back button to return to the results page, I get "Warning: This page has expired" along with a message.

I then have to click on "refresh" for IE to resubmit my search terms and return me to the results page.

This only happens with the 1st page of the results. After I pass page 1, it works as it should.

Has anyone else experienced this? If so and you resolved it, what did you do?

All replies and any help will be most appreciated.

Jema

Jema,

Do you use the advanced search feature?
I have not experienced this since I always go to the advanced search and I use Firefox.

I will try again on IE. What version of IE do you have?

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I just did a search on both regular and advanced search and did not have any problem.
My IE is IE8 version.

Hi MaG,

Thanks for checking on this and responding.

I use the advanced search.

I'm still using IE6. I like the browser and as long as Microsoft continues to furnish security updates for it, I would prefer not to change.

Shortly before I noticed the search problem, I had downloaded and installed a bunch of updates to IE and WinXP via Windows Update. I thought maybe one of them had changed one of my IE settings (it happens sometimes). I checked all my settings and the only changes I recognized were 3 additional security options that all have to do with .NET Framework-reliant components. Everything else looked the same.

Again, thank you for checking.

Jema

Jema, run, run, run away from IE6. It is so full of security holes as to be a danger to your computer. They are still supporting it with updates to keep it running such as the NET framework, but no long patch security holes. I cannot stress enough that you should update to IE8. I would even skip IE7, as IE8 is much more stable and even more secure... although I think you have to update to IE 7 first and then update to IE8. You will notice very little that is different except that it is much faster and that you can feel much more secure about the safety of your computer.

You will find more and more websites which do not support IE6 also as it does not support many commonly used graphics and other code.

The dreadful security and instability of IE6 were the reason for the development and rise of alternate browsers such as Firefox. When Firefox started being extremely popular, Microsoft finally started updating the ancient IE6 with first IE7 and then IE8 and now IE9 for Vista and Windows 7.

Draclvr, thanks for your input and opinion. I'll mull them over.

Just one comment. You said, "... but no long patch security holes." Just yesterday via Windows Update I downloaded and installed a Cumulative Security Update for IE6.

Jema

They are able to patch some of them, but the security website Secunia reports that so far in 2012 15% of all security advisories remain unpatched in IE6 with System Access 43% and Exposure of Sensitive Information 36% of the unpatched security holes. These are the same security holes which remained unpatched in 2010 and 2011. Other browsers also have unpatched security holes, but the problem with this outdated browser is that the security holes are rated as critical or serious and they remain unpatched.

Just something to think about!

Draclvr, again thanks for your input.

I've been doing some web research about browsers. What I've found out so far about IE6/7/8, later versions of Firefox (since Google became Mozilla's primary source of funding), and Chrome (Google) and the user's privacy is appalling!


MaG,

Back to the original reason for my post. In searching for an alternate search engine to Google, I came across this: "... the solution is to make the search results page cacheable. To make it cacheable you need to ensure that the search terms are sent using a GET rather than a POST, then set the right headers to enable the browser to cache the page."

Could that have anything to do with what I'm experiencing?

If so, it seems to me I wouldn't be the only one having the problem. So, is there some setting having to do with caching in IE that I can change?

Jema

Here's a browser I'd never heard of before. Browzar You probably wouldn't use it all the time but if you want privacy, this is an interesting choice.

Gil.

Thanks, Gil. I checked it out. Unfortunately, there's something wrong with their page layout (at least on my monitor) - several letters on each line all the way down the left side of the page are off my screen and it has nothing to do with the horizontal scroll bar.

I did manage to find out it's a shell that you use on top of IE and that the system requirements are Windows 98SE and IE 5.5.

Jema

Most new browsers now have a "private browsing" option so you cannot be tracked while using them.

Draclvr, even if a browser has that option, there's at least one other factor to consider - cookies and how the browser handles the user's cookie settings.

One should not assume (as I did) that because "accept third-party cookies" is disabled that the browser doesn't accept them. It's my understanding that the main reason for third-party cookies is to track a person as he/she surfs the internet.

If anyone is interested in an explanation and a test you can run to see how your browser treats your cookie settings, go here

If you run the test, run both parts.

Jema

There are also Flash Cookies, which persist even if you "toss your cookies" in the usual way.
To get rid of Flash Cookies on Firefox, there is an Add-on called Better Privacy.

Hi, Jenny100,

Yes - I've been reading about those also.

Jema

Jema, what you are talking about is an on-going problem and I've listened to several in-depth radio "talk show" conversations about it. I use the Do Not Track features in Firefox and Chrome, but just how effective they are is questionable. The Network Advertising Initiative is a great place to get information and to use their Opt Out Tool. PrivacyChoice.org is another good one. Their TrackerBlock zaps almost 600 major tracking companies. I use both of them in Firefox and Chrome. The TrackerBlock also is supposed to kill flash trackers.

I've been following this issue closely for about 2 years now. It's just all the more reason to use the most secure browsers possible. Add all this tracking behavior on top of the far more serious inherent security holes in IE6 which will never be patched.

Are these add-ons, Drac? Do I have to go to the NAI to use their Opt Out tool? Do I have to d/l their Opt Out tool?
I only have Safari (on mac, ipad, and M1530) and IE on Acer but I don't know what version it is?

Also, I would like to replace my old Dell Dimension that I use sometimes to game on the Thief series/driving games/printing stuff out on my ink jet printer with one of the newer Dell's in my upstairs office @ 2 GHz CPU, whereas my old Dell has a CPU @ approx. 1.7 GHz, wipe out the HDD, install XP from a Dell XP install disc, and use this to print out stuff from my inkjet printer if I have to, so this newer Dell would count as a "new computer" - so what would I do about IE, and getting the latest IE while avoiding IE 6 and IE 7 in this place - I think I'd just keep that Dell completely off the internet, and if I have to print out stuff on inkjet printer (b/c graphics on laser printouts are faded/off-color, so I only use laser to print out non-graphic documents) I'll simply save the internet docs in Safari's "save as pdf" feature on my M1530/Acer/Mac, move them to this Dell, and print out said docs?

I choose to use XP for these older games, keep that newer Dell.

Yes, they are add-ons.

MaG - you must have done something because the "problem" no longer exists.

Jema

Jema,

Glad it's working for you now.
You must have done something on your end. There are updates on the forum program done by the IT also.
Whatever - just glad it works now.