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I have to say that while the compatibility fix did work for me with GR I had a whole lot of other problems elsewhere after the IE11 installlation - worst was being unable to type anything especially passwords - and it was IE11, I had to switch everything to Firefly where there were no problems. I uninstalled IE11 and things seem fairly all right now.

I have to say that while the compatibility fix did work for me with GR I had a whole lot of other problems elsewhere after the IE11 installlation - worst was being unable to type anything especially passwords - and it was IE11, I had to switch everything to Firefly where there were no problems. I uninstalled IE11 and things seem fairly all right now.

Yes thanks (Jax suggested this also) and it works but have to do it each time on this laptop but not husband's or the old desktop (which is in a fairly cold room!)

CassieB - have you tried the compatibility fix as posted earlier? A number of people have reported that it solves their problem while GR are trying to sort it out from their end


Click the Tools icon (or Alt + X) - the cog shaped one top right of your screen

Click Compatibility View settings in the drop down list

Add the Genes Reunited website - genesreunited.co.uk

I've also had this and did a system restore yesterday. Great. Turn laptop on today, automatic update again and guess what? Same problem. Aaagh!!!

I've also had this and did a system restore yesterday. Great. Turn laptop on today, automatic update again and guess what? Same problem. Aaagh!!!

Unknown - Jim,
Have tried the Compatibility Fix you suggested and it worked.
Thank you.
Viv :-D

Nudge for Sally who has added to an old thread

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/tips_board/thread/1316233?jump=1316233

thanks for the info elizabeth

Martynsue - do note my report above about going to Windows Updates and clicking on Hide for IE11 or it may be automatically installed again!

I then had a couple more hitches being unable to type in passwords for emails to contact within sites - solved one by using Firefly, another by sending an email with hyperlink to OH's computer and dealing with it from there. I in the end contacted our computer adviser who said he now had a few complaints about IE11 and the only useful advice he could give was to uninstall it. He also advised that then to run Windows Update and in optional updates to rightclick on IE11, leftclick on Hide to prevent it being installed again.

How many people use any of these boards ? A few hundred at the most and well under a huindred most days. In case anybody has forgotten this is a commercial web site. Sure the boards are a fun little cornert of the net functionally but have little zero commercial justification in 2014. D C Thomson Family Research lost £ 2 M last year. I can't see much resource going into any further makeover of the boards still less supporting the idiosyncracies of Microsoft, Internet Explorer and Silverlight. Commercially Facebook is the way to go and has been for a while now. Whether GenesRU approach to using Facebook is a good one is another matter.

HTML5 is the standard for web development. Developers target this and to a very large degree make less and and less effort to accomodate browsers which do not adhere to the standard. Of the major browsers IE 9 10 and 11 are way behind the other popular free products. Thus use of IE11 is certain to cause problems.

Some organisations eg the BBC can afford limitless funds to accomodate all number of quirks, ancient browsers and poorly compliant products such as IE. GenesRU is not one of them.

100% Agree with LadyScozz & Allan.
Why do organisations insist we have to be on Facebook & Twitter AND have a smart phone? I don't need the latter as I rarely have my phone on anyway and I have a computer, can occasionally borrow OH's laptop and I have a landline with answerphone.

Thankyou to 'Unknown'. My inhouse computer expert doesn't like Chrome and doesn't want to go back to IE10 so he tried your 'compatibility fix' this morning and it works - but it does look as though I've got to do the fix each time as it doesn't seem to save.

Scozz,

Totally agree with you. I am not a member of Facebook, nor do I intend to be.

I pay my fees for this site, and all messages etc, should be posted on here :-|

I'd like to know.........

Which is the OFFICIAL GenesReunited website?

This one?

or

Facebook?

Anything which concerns members should be posted HERE first. It seems that lots of things are posted on Facebook and not here at all. That's not good enough!

:-| :-| :-| :-| :-| :-|

Unknown's formula for using compatibility view is working for me, but you do have to access each site individually first and use the tool as a separate exercise for each. I was able to able to get to the sites but not use them - but am now going through all those I have now bookmarked on Firefly - I suppose this may be a good thing to have them all duplicated!

I've had the same problem.

When I connected to the internet today, I received a message saying update ti IE 11. I closed the message and thought that I would still be on IE 10 :-|

At the moment, I'm using chrome to access the site

Unknown - thanks! I can type in GR on IE11 now - must go and try my other problem sites!

on google it said if you uninstall e11 you will automatically go back to e10,so I uninstalled it and now I do not have any errors,everything seems to be as it was before.

The Genes Reunited website has a compatibility view problem with Internet Explorer 11.

The fix is

Click the Tools icon (or Alt + X) - the cog shaped one top right of your screen

Click Compatibility View settings in the drop down list

Add the Genes Reunited website - genesreunited.co.uk

Cheers

Jim