GS no longer compatible with Google Chrome?

[bprobst]

For the last, say, 2 months, I've been completely unable to login to GS using the Google Chrome browser. I get no error messages of any kind, but when I try to login, nothing happens. I can browse the forum content, but only as a guest.

Everything works completely fine and normal using Firefox.

I don't think it can be any AV or spam blocker or anything like that, because all of those are in place while I'm using Firefox. It's not just a single PC, either, although my other PC is configured quite similarly to my main one.

Is it just me?

 

[Michael R]

What is your OS?

 

[Vinnie]

I'm browsing on chrome on a tablet.

 

[Michael R]

Chrome works normally on my Mac.

 

[Sparafucil3]

For the last, say, 2 months, I've been completely unable to login to GS using the Google Chrome browser. I get no error messages of any kind, but when I try to login, nothing happens. I can browse the forum content, but only as a guest.

Everything works completely fine and normal using Firefox.

I don't think it can be any AV or spam blocker or anything like that, because all of those are in place while I'm using Firefox. It's not just a single PC, either, although my other PC is configured quite similarly to my main one.

Is it just me?

Are you using an ad blocker or some other extension? Have you tried disabling as long as it takes to log in? -- jim

 

[zgrose]

double check if your browser location has https:// in front of the URL at the first page you go to, and then try logging in again. for a while, my phone didn't want to bring up GS, but my iPad was fine and i believe that was the issue.

(summons joel to make his usual admonishment to GS IT )

 

[Robin Reeve]

I use Chrome on my PC (Windows), Mac OS and Android smartphone, and have not problem logging in.
But, strangely, on my Android smartphone, I am asked to log in each time I open this site - which was not the case previously - while on the other devices, login is automatic...

 

[bprobst]

Windows 10 on one PC and Windows 11 on the other.

Are you using an ad blocker or some other extension? Have you tried disabling as long as it takes to log in?

Yes, and yes.

double check if your browser location has https:// in front of the URL at the first page you go to, and then try logging in again. for a while, my phone didn't want to bring up GS, but my iPad was fine and i believe that was the issue

Well OK, that seems to have been the issue here too. I edited the bookmark to include the https and just like that, Chrome is now behaving. Thanks for the tip, although I would have sworn that Chrome always adds that prefix by default ....

 

[Michael R]

The URL changed not too long ago from http to https. Perhaps your Chrome was remembering the old URL.

 

[zgrose]

https was added to the site but the site doesn’t force redirects so that’s how old URLs get serviced by http still.

either way, at least he’s good-to-go now.

 

[ibncalb]

If one uses the share function on a message it also defaults to a http link.

 

[uckelman]

https was added to the site but the site doesn’t force redirects so that’s how old URLs get serviced by http still.

It's 2025 and we're still waiting for HTTP redirecting to HTTPS, with no explanation for why this hasn't been done...

 

[VonHutier]

I use Chrome on my PC (Windows), Mac OS and Android smartphone, and have not problem logging in.
But, strangely, on my Android smartphone, I am asked to log in each time I open this site - which was not the case previously - while on the other devices, login is automatic...

Hah ! That started to happen to me recently!

 

[zgrose]

It's 2025 and we're still waiting for HTTP redirecting to HTTPS, with no explanation for why this hasn't been done...

I think it’s pretty clear they don’t know how and don’t care enough to get help. No reason to be all passive aggressive about it. =p

 

[uckelman]

The only thing I can do from here is pester them about it every so often. I can't fix it myself. It's not my site. <shrug>

 

[Sparafucil3]

I think it’s pretty clear they don’t know how and don’t care enough to get help. No reason to be all passive aggressive about it. =p

I believe someone offered to help and was engaged in the process but clearly it wasn't completed for whatever reason. -- jim

 

[uckelman]

Given that it's an Apache server (which I can see from the HTTP headers), it's likely to be replacing the config for the virtual host for port 80 with this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName www.gamesquad.com
  Redirect permanent / https://www.gamesquad.com/
</VirtualHost>

This is why I've been saying all along that it's a 5-minute job.