I found the problem I had under Firefox browser.
The video driver, as a cause, didn't make sense to me because the site
will run if I use IE rather than Firefox and I do check for updates
periodically.
In Firefox I disabled all extensions and most add-ins that I have added
to Firefox. Then the site worked. By process of elimination I tracked it
down to the Adblock extension I have loaded. I found if I do run
Adblock, I was able to exclude that one site from Adblock checking and
it works. Solved!
When I was adding back the extensions, I did see the site stop loading
correctly again, but I never saw the horrible hanging condition that I
had before. So it is slightly puzzling why I never saw that again, but I
did find a solution, so I won't worry about any fine points of problem
explanation.
-Rex
John Allen wrote:
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
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
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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.
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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
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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
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