John,
Thanks for the reply. I expected to hear from someone besides me who was
also experiencing problems trying to run the link. I wonder if anyone
can confirm that they are able to use the page successfully from an XP
machine (or other MS OS), using the Firefox browser. Perhaps someone can
confirm that this combination is capable or working or not.
I wouldn't expect this machine to be challenged. It is an Intel Quad
Core processor at 2.8 GHz and has 4 GB of RAM. That is not
state-of-the-art, but is pretty high performance. I haven't seen any
other software problems in the ~6 months I've been using this PC.
Today I was wondering if I could find a way to update the GE plug-in in
Firefox. I couldn't, but I checked for a Firefox update and there was
one. After updating Firefox, it automatically started loading a new GE
plug-in, so I should now have the latest versions of Firefox and the
Google Earth plug-in. When I tried the page again, I got basically the
same hang result.
The browser window fills with what looks like a very noisy picture of
several copies of one window. So much video noise that I can't tell what
the windows are, but they look like empty windows with some kind of
control or status along the bottom. On the right half of the firefox
window is one big area of just blank video noise. While this is going
on, any cursor movement doesn't happen for 5 - 10 sec after I move the
mouse. I can eventually kill firefox if I gradually move the cursor to
the upper-right X and click it. If I let this continue for several
minutes I eventually get a box that says a script is not responding --
asks to stop it or continue. If I stop it, I eventually regain control.
I started to try it in IE earlier but didn't let GE load so no
information gained. Just now I did it again with IE and let it load
Google Earth. The page does run under IE, so seems the the application
script has some compatibility with Firefox and the GE plug-in. Surely
anyone else will see the same problems if they are using Firefox. I
abhor IE, so I guess I won't be running this tool.
Do you have any connection to the page owner? Can you pass this report on?
-Rex
John Allen wrote:
Hi Rex, sorry to hear that. Apparently the page uses a new Google Earth
plugin (For Firefox). Google Earth is known for it's demands on hardware,
particularly Graphics memory and possibly Main Memory.
Please let us know if you find out what is going on.
John Allen K1AE
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Rex
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 2:47 AM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FW: HeyWhatsThat: January 15 Solar Eclipse
The link doesn't play nice on my machine. The page opens in Firefox
browser and shows some simple graphic of the earth with some clickable
spots (I think). Then I see a message from my firewall that Google Earth
is going out to the internet and all goes weird. The page gets new
grainy overlays and the machine essentially freezes. Something is
downloading but no joy after several minutes. Just regaining control is
a mess because my mouse movements take about 5 seconds to show on the
monitor. Two tries with a reboot between and I gave up.
Is it just a problem on my machine, or more common?
John Allen wrote:
This is worth checking out for the path of Jan 15 eclipse.
John K1AE
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kosowsky [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 11:41 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: HeyWhatsThat: January 15 Solar Eclipse
Just finished a simulation of Friday's annular solar
eclipse at
http://www.heywhatsthat.com/201001-solar-eclipse.html
It uses the Google Earth plugin to show both the eclipse
shadow on the Earth and the relative positions of the Moon
and the Sun in the sky.
Happy New Year,
MK
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