[time-nuts] FW: HeyWhatsThat: January 15 Solar Eclipse

[Rex]

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
>
> John Allen - PC Support Solutions 978 779-6189 M: 508 361-6229
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] 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 <rexa at sonic.net>
>>> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FW: HeyWhatsThat: January 15 Solar Eclipse
>>> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
>>>        <time-nuts at febo.com>
>>> Message-ID: <4B501E37.9030204 at sonic.net>
>>> 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
>> geraldo at decampos.net
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