It works fine for me. Windows XP SP2, Firefox 3.5.7, DELL Inspiron 1525.
> > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:50:15 -0800 > From: Rex <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FW: HeyWhatsThat: January 15 Solar Eclipse > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > 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 > > J > ------------------------------------ Geraldo Lino de Campos [email protected] _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
