PM popup

[BiG D]

In my user options, I have the option to pop up an alert when I have a new private message. I just noticed I had a message for over a day now, and there's been no popup. What gives?

 

[thatbloke]

You aren't using a popup blocker are you? Try allowing popups from this site

 

[BiG D]

Nah, nothing like that. And the way it works in other forums, it uses a javascript alert box, so a popup blocker wouldn't likely catch it anyway.

 

[KillCrazy]

It could have dissapeared quickly by accident, for example, you could have hit enter or clicked another link, therefor voiding it for future visits to the site. I wonder if you can send PM's to yourself, so you could test it

 

[BiG D]

Just sent one to myself, no popup. If someone else wants to try sending one...

EDIT: Got one, and it did the popup this time... Odd :/

PS to fi$hy: <3

 

[Pestcontrol]

I've got it reliably every single time.

FF 1.5.0.1, with FF 1.07 and the old site the popup blocker would get in between, and then i would tell it to accept popups for this site, and it'd still block them...

 

[BiG D]

That javascript error that randomly occurs sometimes, might it prevent the execution of the alert popup?

 

[Ronin Storm]

I suspect that JavaScript error is associated with the lack of popup. I occasionally don't get the popup either, for no apparent reason.

BiG D... you using Firefox with the Fasterfox extension?

 

[BiG D]

Nope. At home I use firefox, but at work I use IE. I missed the first PM from home, as far as I can tell, but I didn't get the popup for a new one at work today when I got another, either...

 

[DeZmond]

Well I use IE and have not had any of these issues thus far. (These machines here at Uni do not have firefox for the most part).

 

[thatbloke]

I have had a total of 8 PMs here (i still have them ) and not ever recieved one single popup notification

 

[Ronin Storm]

Yep, this system needs work. Templating looks like the solution, rather than hacking into the code at this time -- something nice and obvious.