Why, Why, WHY?

Facebook has suddenly stopped working on my laptop.

Up until this week I was looking at it almost daily. Now I have to go upstairs to the ancient PC (running Firefox) to log in.

There's not even any sensible message from Internet Explorer, just "cannot display the webpage" as if there's no broadband connection. Only one other web sites is affected. My Co-op online banking and other password-controlled (https) web sites are fine. But the Nationwide Building Society log-in page is another no-no.

Virgin recently gave us a new, faster router. But it can't be that because I had the same problem when I visited my Mum.

So what the f*** has changed?!

I've not (knowingly) changed my Internet Explorer 9 settings. Or Vista.

A Google search for this problem throws up some technical things you can try, but without finding an exact description of my particular problem I'm reluctant to start trying things randomly.

Finally I find that Facebook and Nationwide will open OK in Firefox on the laptop, but Facebook is so slow to load it ain't worth the bother. Perhaps I'll download a more recent version.

But C can't access her Nationwide account on the PC, where she still uses Internet Explorer 8 and where all her favourites are.

This is SO ANNOYING