Miss Meh wrote:
I probably should have mentioned I'm on a Samsung Focus S Windows phone with IE as the browser. I really wish I could get Firefox or some other browser for my cell, I feel nekkid on IE without being able to selectively block flash and ads.
If you are using your cell carrier for access, then it is quite possibly your cell carrier that is re-routing or interrupting your session. If so, the browser isn't at fault.
Last August, I got a call from a member of my website, who was not able to reach the game content that he was paying for. Everything was fine coming to our main site, but as soon as he tried to go to the games, whether by clicking the games link, from his bookmark, or by entering it directly, he was routed off to a Bing search for games, rather than going to ours.
He was a Frontier Communications customer and, coincidentally, this story came out in
Ars Technica the very next day:
Small ISPs use "malicious" DNS servers to watch Web searches, earn cash. It turned out that was exactly what was happening -- his searches were being "monetized" (hijacked so they could rip off some advertisers) by Frontier and a bug in the program was revealing what was going on.
What was interesting was that someone had complained to Frontier CEO Maggie Wilderotter back in April about their Google searches being proxied, and she claimed it was "done by one of our vendors and we have now stopped it." However, in August, they were still proxying Bing and Yahoo -- it was only Google where they stopped.
After a
very pointed call to Frontier, my member's problem went away. But you may have the same thing, which was why I asked about your carrier. If you're using WiFi, try using DNS 8.8.8.8 (Google) and see if that makes a difference.