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Browser issues or system errors? (self.help)

submitted 2 years ago by snausagesinablanket to c/[email protected]

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I have switched to Brave browser because I can't get to my second page of unread replies in Chrome. It also glitches quite a bit in the last few days and I keep getting a generic page error with no suggestion except to reload the page which kicks me right off the site completely into a blank page. Brave browser seems a little better but still far from error free.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Hey, that is weird behaviour, I haven't encountered it in my testing with Chrome. There are a few things you can try to figure out what's causing it:

Try clearing your browser cache (cookies, offline site data, etc): https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop - sometimes, especially after Lemmy updates, things can be a bit wonky until you do this.
If the problem persists, try using another instance to see if the same thing is happening there too. You're welcome to try lemdit.com if you wish.

This will help you narrow down the problem.

I suspect there may be two separate things going on:

The comment behaviour you mentioned may be related to browser cache and recent Lemmy updates introducing infinite scrolling.
The generic page error is likely related to the instance you are using. lemmy.world has suffered through a few DDoS attacks recently so it's possible that you are getting those errors when the instance is down due to those attacks. If it happens again, then perhaps take a screenshot and post it here.

Let me know how you go.