Azhdar: Sometimes. Not only chat but also other notifications (e.g. forum replies). Solution by Grargar:
It's a bug that occurs from time to time because GOG's main page isn't well-integrated with the forum. If you want to be getting notifications for your replies, you'll have to go to the main page and they should show up. Same thing if you want to clear your notifications. Note: You may have to do this (go from mainpage to forum and back) more than once. opticq: Darn. I just tried this and it didn't work :/
When facing internet browsing troubles, try these tree tips to resolve any issue you might have:
Step One: Clear your browsing cache. The cache exists because of a basic assumption made by browser designers: the internet is slow. More accurately, your internet connection is slower than your computer.
What that means is that it’s faster to get something from your hard disk than it is to get it from the internet. Even with today’s faster internet speeds, that still holds very true.
Browser designers noticed that most web sites had many of the same elements on multiple pages. For example, if you look at this page, you’ll see the Ask Leo! logo at the top. It’s actually at the top of every page on this site. So the thinking was, why download the same logo for every page? Why not just download it once and then keep it so we can use it again?
CacheThat’s what the browser cache is for. The cache is nothing more than a place on your hard disk where the browser keeps things that it downloaded once in case they’re needed again.
When you first visit a page on this site, the browser downloads the logo into the cache, and then displays it on the page you’re viewing. For each additional page you visit, the logo doesn’t need to be downloaded again; as long as the same logo is displayed, it’s already on your hard disk.
The cache has a size limit, which you can usually configure. When the cache gets full, the items in it that haven’t been used in a while are discarded to make more space.
Naturally, there’s a little more to it than that. For example, there are ways for me to update the logo on my site and have that override whatever is in your cache, so what you see is always up-to-date. But by and large, that’s all it is: a place to keep things locally so you don’t have to download the same things over and over again.
And it’s all transparent to you.
Until something breaks, of course.
Clearing the cache
Clearing the cache just means emptying it, so that the next time you display a web page everything must be downloaded anew.
For reasons I simply can’t explain – other than by saying “stuff happens” – the cache sometimes get confused. This seems to happen to most all browsers and at random times. What you’ll see are partially loaded or badly formatted web pages, incomplete pictures, or, in some cases, the wrong picture in the wrong place.
It’s not always a caching problem, but because it happens often enough, “clear your browser cache” is often one of the first diagnostic steps you’ll hear from people like me.
Step Two: Delete your temporary files 1) NTFS has to make 8.3 filesnames for every file (unless you tweak it via fsutil). Its gets progressively harder once your folder has a large number of files. Also applications that make the temp files, have to search for a unique name. I had a pokey old 4200 rpm drive, so each seek was very expensive, and lots of seeks were needed because (see point2)
2) Size of the MFT. The Master File Table can become many hundreds of MB in size and won't be cached as often (or atleast more of it will pbe paged out all the time). ntfsinfo from Sys Interals will give you the deets...
3) Each time the temp folder is enumerated - there's a lot more work to be done - esp. if you have a virus scanner that checks all the files in a folder, each time the folder is enumerated! I'd also been very aggresive with Windows Search indexing. Excluding the temp folder from the index, helped speed-up my computer too...
Step Three: Kill Yourself While not an actual solution to any of life's problems, ending your ephemeral existence prematurely affords you the peace of mind that come with the exoneration of the obligations forced upon us in our existential struggles.
