I’m getting complaints just lately that topic list links aren’t working for users on IE11. They click the link but it does nothing, or loads a white page. The URL changes, but the page stays the same, or it goes blank. Opening in new tab works fine, or refreshing the page once the URL has changed. I…

Try directing one of them to safe mode to see if that solves it, if it does, then it is likely something in your customizations.

Clicking the logo reloads the page, yes. If you cannot repro the problem on meta, the problem is local to your site, not Discourse’s code.

Well, that’s what I’m asking… I’ve turned off everything “custom” on my site (CSS, plugins), all that’s left is vanilla Discourse. Any suggestions for troubleshooting this are appreciated. I got no love for IE. If there’s nothing to be done, I’ll just tell users to move to another browser.

Good thought. I just booted Win10 into Safe Mode with Networking. No improvement.

I think cpradio meant Discourse’s safe mode . [image] Use Safe Mode to troubleshoot issues with themes and plugins Site Management Discourse has a “JavaScript Safe Mode ”, where any user can use to isolate the root cause of a JavaScript issue caused by plugins, themes or the…

Oh, thanks! I hadn’t seen that before. EDIT: Wow, that’s a great tool. Narrowed it down very quickly to unofficial plugins, then the Babble plugin, then specifically the full page chat option. @gdpelican your plugin controls are not working as expected. Un-checking “Enable Babble shoutbox plugin”…

Adding this code to < /head> fixes this issue for IE11: [image] Array.from() - JavaScript | MDN The Array.from() static method creates a new, shallow-copied Array instance from an iterable or array-like object.

This was fixed recently, sorry about that.

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Remah (Just another happy Discourse user) February 19, 2017, 2:55am 6

I think cpradio meant Discourse’s safe mode.

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