Hi Rex - I suspect that you have a video driver bug. Click on start - all programs - Windows update, click on the custom button. (Do the single required update first if it asks.) Over on the left side, find Hardware updates - see if there is a video driver update. Alternatively, go to the card manufacture's web site. (Or if Dell, their support site.) I give high odds that it is a video driver problem.
PS: I am running Windows XP Pro SP3, Firefox 3.5.7, DELL Vostro 1510 73, John John Allen - PC Support Solutions 978 779-6189 M: 508 361-6229 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rex Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 8:05 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FW: HeyWhatsThat: January 15 Solar Eclipse Thanks for the feedback, and from Keith too. Strange. I have the same Firefox version. I'm running XP SP3, but I doubt that would be the cause. I have no idea what's causing the problem here. Obviously it's something unique on my system. If I get time later, I may try turning off all add-in programs and anti-virus to see if I can find a conflict. Geraldo Lino de Campos wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
