I’m not selling you something, I have no vested interests here and please don’t ask me questions about this because I’m so non-technical in real life that it’s not even funny (founder member of The Flat Earth Society, ‘n all that):
Did you know that your site may be failing to load properly and/or that your ‘Comments’ page may be causing the user’s internet connection to fail? This is particularly the case if you run a Blogger site.
I know this because I am that user and many of the sites I’ve been trying to visit are on Blogger. I’ve referred to this problem before and actually thought at the time that it might be something specific to me alone, i.e. to do with my computer, my internet connection … or something. Well, it seems that I’m not alone, not by a long shot. It’s a common problem and so if you have low visitor numbers, few or even no comments, it’s just possible that your visitors are being zapped as described above.
The solution to the problem appears to be two-fold and here I thank A-M over at The House that A-M Built for providing these two links:
Internet Explorer error on Blogspot comments
I should say that up-grading your Internet Explorer to a more recent version will not solve the problem (I obviously tried this).
If you’re the site owner a ‘clean-up’ or re-shuffle as described on the first link above link may help. If you are the person experiencing the problem, switching to a different browser, like Firefox, may resolve it. I only say ‘may’ because I switched to Firefox late yesterday and so far I’ve had far fewer problems. You’ll note that I can’t say I haven’t had any, but certainly problems are now few and far between.
If you’re as non-technical as I am, I can confirm that you can have both IE and Firefox on your computer and so alternate between the two if you want, and that Firefox can import all your ‘Favourites’. Those of you who already know this to be true ~ don’t snicker, I’m doing the best I can!
.... feeling war-torn and weary 
18 Comments
July 13, 2009 at 11:16 am
Thanks for the info. There is one blogger site that I visit regularly and with IE get an error msg. I was wondering what the cause was–good to see that it is not just me.
July 13, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Glad I could help. Being the non-technical person that I am, I too thought that it was just me. Upgrading to the new IE seemed to make things worse, not better, so needless to say, I’m now converted to Firefox.
July 13, 2009 at 3:33 pm
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July 14, 2009 at 6:55 am
Hello there SITSa. Thanks for stopping by.
July 13, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Thank you so much for this! I have had some people tell me this is happening when they try to go to my blog. I’ll try the fix in the first link. Thanks!!
July 13, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Yes, I now realise just how many people have been experiencing this problem. I hope the re-shuffle as described above works for you.
July 13, 2009 at 5:27 pm
I was “that” user too. I switched to Google Chrome and have had NO problems ever since.
July 14, 2009 at 6:54 am
You too huh? And there I was thinking that it was just me!
July 13, 2009 at 8:30 pm
hmmmm..I’ll need to look into this. I’ve been using Firefox for a while now and notice many fewer problems than with IE.
Sorry to hear about your “mayo mishap” ;-0
July 14, 2009 at 6:53 am
Yes, I wish I’d swapped sooner now.
July 13, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Thanks for the reminder. I have been meaning to move my FOLLOWERS lower, but just forgot. I now have moved them at the bottom and put a note at the top of the right side bar so people will know where to look and why it is so far down.
Take a look and let me know what you think…
Stopping by from SITS.
July 14, 2009 at 6:53 am
It’s a surprisingly simple solution to an annoying problem. Let’s hope it works. So far so good …! Nice site BTW.
July 14, 2009 at 12:48 am
Oh thanks for spreading the word. I did ALL of the fix ups listed in the links above so I don’t know what exactly fixed up my site! I also removed some Picassa web album slide shows and unfortunately my followers widget. People who couldn’t access through IE can now so I think all my widgets were not helping! Firefox or Chrome are definitely the go! A-M xx
July 14, 2009 at 5:40 am
I’m so glad that it looks as though the problem is sorted!
July 14, 2009 at 3:08 am
Stopping by from SITS- thanks for the info!
July 14, 2009 at 5:39 am
You’re welcome Lani. BTW, having visited your site I most definitely take my hat of to you … you’re doing a wonderful job.
July 14, 2009 at 10:53 am
I’ve had several people tell me they can’t comment on my site. But I have my email readily available so they always email if they feel so inclined. Stupid blogger!
July 14, 2009 at 11:23 am
Stupid blogger and stupid Internet Explorer!