in IE 10, get gray area covering part of BBC page

[techwanabe]

At work, IE 10 is the standard browser right now. Can't change it.

Lately I noticed the BBC news website comes up, and a vertical gray rectangular area covers the left hand side of the page, so it masks or covers the news stories. This only started a few days ago. It seems to only occur on the BBC webpages.

Anyone experience this and know of a cure, besides switching browsers which we can't do on our work stations due to IT standards?

 

[corkyg]

Can you provide a link? From here with IE11, it is like this:

http://www.bbc.com/news/

Why not suggest a free upgrade to IE11 for the company? IE10 was very buggy.

 

[techwanabe]

IE 10 is pushed to all PC's here until they eventually test and approve the next version. No option there.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world/

That page as well as others. Below the add banner, it's a gray rectangle down most of the page - until there is a photo and then finally "Features and Analysis" shows up. Maybe there is a glitch with that part and it's covering the whole page. Only started doing that in last few days. Might continue that way until a plug in or something is updated, or BBC fixes their code. I'll have to check a few others PC's running IE 10 to see if it is true for them too.

 

[corkyg]

OK, it comes up clean here - no gray box. That must be some sort of local filter applied by your IT folks. I would ask them about it. Maybe they think it requires a paid subscription. Good idea to check other users in your area. Could also be Internet settings/cookies in your PC.

Can you use a thumb drive? If so, there are portable browsers available for them

https://www.google.com/search?sourc...rlz=1T4GGLG_enUS329&q=Browser+on+thumb+drive?

 

[oynaz]

Can you use a thumb drive? If so, there are portable browsers available for them

That is a terrible idea. Circumventing IT security policies is a very good way to get fired.

 

[corkyg]

That is a terrible idea. Circumventing IT security policies is a very good way to get fired.

Agree. My thought was only if it were allowed by IT. That was in the context of the preceding para. The entire problem should be discussed with IT.

 

[xavier es]

i am seeing the same @BBC news site, except i use Opera 12.16, w/ win7. it only happens on BBC news. it seems random, sometimes i check BBC its fine, if i close or reload the page and reopen it the block covering about half the page appears, i can check again in 5 minutes and its ok.
sometimes the full page appears for about a second then the block appears. sometimes the page is ok, then if i hit reload the block appears.
I just fired up my nexus 7 (2013) and see the block there also,
it also appears on my lenovo 440p laptop running mint linux.

 

[vailr]

Is Adobe Flash installed?