How can guests be posting on the site ??
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It's nothing to do with browsers. Here's a section from the phpBB FAQ which should answer your question.
http://www.ron2k.za.net/forum/docs/FAQ.html
A copy of this FAQ (which really only applies to forum admins) is over at my site (too lazy to delete it).According to viewonline a user is doing/reading something they should not be able to!
No, they probably are not. phpBB uses sessions to keep track of users as they move between pages. The session information tells us who this user is. Therefore in order to determine what a user can do on a page we first need the session details. Once this data is available we can check whether the user is permitted to do whatever it is they are trying to do. This can result in it appearing as if a user is reading a topic in a forum they should not be able to access. Or perhaps viewing private messages when they are only guests, etc. In practice the user is not doing these things, they are viewing a "You are not permitted to do this" type message. The session data has simply been updated before we were able to determine what the user could or could not do.
Of course this only applies where permissions have been set correctly!
http://www.ron2k.za.net/forum/docs/FAQ.html
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