Hi Smogon. Help?
It seems my browsing privileges have been slightly, fuck slightly, drastically decreased since yesterday, when i tried watching a flash video on some random website my friend linked me to, and of course it failed to load. At the bottom of the video tray it says "You need to upgrade your Flash Player to at
least version 8 to view this video content." Funny thing is, according to "Add/Remove Programs," i have the latest Flash Player (9 that is), Adobe Flash Player and Plugin all installed; Active Scripting is also enabled in Internet Options, as well as "Scripting of java applets." (if that's necessary)
Not only that, when i tried clicking in on the sumo volleyball link at
www.shizmoo.com, the little popup window failed to......pop up ;\. Yes I do get that the shizmoo server is down at the moment but that's not the case here, the little pop-up window doesn't appear; even when i try opening it in a new tab/window it only appears as a "Blank Page." I can't even click the "Find Next" button when i try to perform a Ctrl + F for christ's sake; the button seems to be disabled or some shit. Even in the Quick Reply box, i can't click any of the icons (i.e ": jump: and : happybrain:" smileys etc.) one would use to enhance his/her post if so desired.
I really don't get it. Is there some possible connection among all these things? Is it a virus or something? I've been troubleshooting for the past day or so and i still haven't been able to muster up a logical solution to this whole bangarang. Meh, this is dumb.
All help appreciated, and thanks in advance.
EDIT: Fucking WMP won't even open ;\ ("An internal application error has occurred")
EDIT2: Just to clarify, my main/current browser is IE7 (upgraded yesterday from IE6 thinking that was the prob.), and the problems i listed occurred w/ both browsers. (ie6 and 7) So with that in mind i decided to download a beta version of Firefox and test all those problems. Everything worked perfectly, from the flash videos right down to the icons in the Quick Reply box o.0. Lol this is odd as fuck.