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January 14, 2013 at 4:46 am #2171241
Problems viewing TR via Firefox?
Lockedby charliespencer · about 11 years, 2 months ago
Besides mudpuppy and I, is anyone else having problems viewing TR with FF?
+Clicking Edit, Reply, or Flag results in a spinning icon beside the link but the requested text boxes never open. They can be opened successfully if right-clicked and opened in a new tab.
+If viewing in ‘Collapsed’ mode, clicking a post title does not open the post. Using the Left and Right cursor keys will move through the posts, until you forget and click on a title; then they stop expanding the posts.
I started seeing these problems last week. I believe that’s when FF updated from v17 to v18. I’ve cleared the cache and dumped my cookies ( 🙂 ) to no effect. I’m having the same problems on FF at home, but not in IE.
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January 14, 2013 at 6:52 am #2426740
Yup. Me too…
by cmiller5400 · about 11 years, 2 months ago
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Reply is just spinning, didn’t want to flag your post… 😀 FF 18 as well.
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January 14, 2013 at 6:56 am #2426739
I got 17.0.1 and its working
by slayer_ · about 11 years, 2 months ago
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I guess you have to downgrade.
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January 14, 2013 at 8:02 am #2426737
Here are good instructions for downgrading FF 18 to 17
by charliespencer · about 11 years, 2 months ago
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http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/946956
and go to the post by jcanth. Rolling back to 17.0.1 has fixed the problems I described above.
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January 14, 2013 at 8:11 am #2426736
Now I know not to upgrade. Thanks (nt)
by slayer_ · about 11 years, 2 months ago
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January 14, 2013 at 8:15 am #2426734
No, go ahead and do it.
by charliespencer · about 11 years, 2 months ago
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Who needs this joint? 😀
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January 14, 2013 at 8:19 am #2426733
Sure without geekend its tough to justify TR
by slayer_ · about 11 years, 2 months ago
In reply to No, go ahead and do it.
But the OS wars are still funny.
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January 14, 2013 at 7:29 pm #2434986
Downgrade fixed issue?
by Tammy.Cavadias · about 11 years, 2 months ago
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I haven’t upgraded to 18 yet.. and from the sounds of it..not something I want to do?
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January 15, 2013 at 4:16 am #2434966
Yep.
by charliespencer · about 11 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Downgrade fixed issue?
I wouldn’t upgrade yet. If there are problems viewing TR, there are probably problems viewing other sites.
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January 16, 2013 at 5:03 pm #2434829
Interesting issue. A couple of days ago I started having issues with TR in
by deadly ernest · about 11 years, 2 months ago
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that replies at Q&A and new discussions wouldn’t post. I’d get a Page not found’ error and when I try to send again I get the ‘Duplicate post’ error. But hours later the post is NOT there at all. I was ussing Fire Fox 16 on Zorin 5.
I upgraded to Zorin 6 (overdue for it) and ended up with Fire Fox 18. Then I couldn’t read any posts in line, but they opened up in a new tab OK. I didn’t even try to make any posts.
Today I’m at where I do some volunteer work and using their Win 7 Enterprise system. This reply is coming from MSIE 9 – the system also has Fire Fox 18 (upgraded in the last week). I have TR open in both browsere and there is a very dramatic difference in the look of the same page. FF is definately handling the Java in a very different manner to MSIE at the moment. However, I do note the Java Platform SE 6 U24 6.0.240.7 has been disabled by FF as “…. known to cause security or stability issues.” – with a link to:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/p80
which says:
Java Plugin has been blocked for your protection.
Why was it blocked?
Outdated versions of the Java plugin are vulnerable to an actively exploited security issue. All users are strongly encouraged to update their Java plugin. For more information, please read our blog post or Oracle’s Advisory.
Who is affected?All Firefox users who have installed the Java plugin, JRE versions below 1.6.0_31 or between 1.7.0 and 1.7.0_2.
What does this mean?
Users are strongly encouraged to disable the problematic add-on or plugin, but may choose to continue using it if they accept the risks described.
When Mozilla becomes aware of add-ons, plugins, or other third-party software that seriously compromises Firefox security, stability, or performance and meets certain criteria, the software may be blocked from general use. For more information, please read this support article.
Blocked on April 2, 2012. View block request.
end quote
it also refers to the blog at:
I’m going to install the new version of java and see what happens. I’ll let you know when it’s done.
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January 16, 2013 at 5:22 pm #2434826
I just went to Oracle in the link and loaded the new version
by deadly ernest · about 11 years, 2 months ago
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then removed the old version – no change to how FF works. Have another machine I need to do this to and will remove first.
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January 16, 2013 at 5:59 pm #2434820
OK, latest testing info results
by deadly ernest · about 11 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I just went to Oracle in the link and loaded the new version
On the other three systems I deleted Java 6 first and then installed Java 7 – TR pages now appear the same in FF 18 and MSIE 9 and 10 (one system is still XP with IS 9). However, there is still two issues with the Java in FF 18.
It’s clear you HAVE to delete 6 befor einstalling 7 as I still have issues on the system I added 7 before deleting 6.
1. If the list preference is in collapsed mode the title shows but I can’t get the individual post to display inb line, it will display properly if opened in a new tab.
If I change the preference to ‘expanded’ then the posts all display.
2. Regardless of the display options above, the links for edit, reply, flag, and favorite do NOT work – they just sit and spin. Clearly there is still an issue on how FF 18 is handling these commands.
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April 10, 2013 at 8:55 am #2903360
No change to the above as of April, but if in expanded mode I can
by deadly ernest · about 10 years, 11 months ago
In reply to OK, latest testing info results
make a reply by opening the ‘reply’ window in a new tab; though it won’t open in the main window. Same applies to the edit button.
I now think the original FF issue has been fixed, but there is a residual problem with the way the TR page works that may be conflicting with the anti-advertisement and security activities I have going.
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January 16, 2013 at 5:14 pm #2434828
Add me to your list – Times Two
by maxwell edison · about 11 years, 2 months ago
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Firefox AND Internet Explorer. Neither will play nice in the connection between TR and me. I can log in okay, but when I try to post something, the green circle spins and spins, but no new window appears for me to post.
AND I can’t open any message. I have to expand all of them in order to read any of them.
I almost gave up, but decided to try Chrome.
(Grrrrrr – Chrome works. Grrrrrr – I don’t do Google!)
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January 16, 2013 at 5:21 pm #2434827
Max, read my post above and read the blogs, then follow the links
by deadly ernest · about 11 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Add me to your list – Times Two
to load the new version, but try removing the old version first – I just loaded the new and then removed the old, and no fix.
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January 16, 2013 at 5:40 pm #2434824
Well if this helps though I doubt it will
by hal 9000 · about 11 years, 2 months ago
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Every morning at 06.50 I get kicked off TR and am unable to log back in till somewhere around 07.00 [i]My Time[/i] which is -10 Hours on GMT.
But starting today I got a full listings of replies to both Questions and Discussions that I’m subscribed to which has not been happening for quite a while now and because I predominately use IE under both XP and 7 I’ve not experienced any real Issues with postings though there are the normal ones that just end up in the Bit Bucket for unknown reasons but they don’t seem to be more common than they have been in the past.
As yet I have not changed FF to the newest so maybe I’ll sit back and ignore the update warnings that I’ve been seeing the past few days in light of what’s been posted above. 😉
However I have noticed some screwy issues. Like while chasing Spammers I click on their User Name get shown a list of their postings and when I click on Show all there is nothing. Several Page Refreshes may eventually bring up all of their posts but like for instance just now where I was going around deleting posts from [i]clothesbiz10[/i] I would click on a discussion that they have flag and then delete it and when I clicked on the back Button to be returned to the lists of their posts I would get a empty page which required several refreshes to get the listing up again.
Sometimes it would go back properly but most times it just went back to an empty page with no listings of their posts and when I went to delete the last of the 11 posts that they had made I could flag it but when I clicked on Delete nothing. Maybe there’s someone else who’s deleted it so it’s right but then again maybe not. :^0
Col
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January 18, 2013 at 4:51 pm #2434697
Update – FF 18.1
by charliespencer · about 11 years, 2 months ago
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At home this evening I was greeted by an update from FF 18 to 18.1. Unfortunately, this has made no difference; the same problems still exist. So far the only solution appears to be downgrading to 17.
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January 19, 2013 at 7:46 am #2434691
Did you submit a bug report to the FF devs?
by slayer_ · about 11 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Update – FF 18.1
Cause you should if you haven’t.
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January 20, 2013 at 5:10 pm #2434674
Firefox plugin check is pissing me off
by slayer_ · about 11 years, 2 months ago
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It completely blocks your browsing if a plugin is out of date. (foxit in my case)
If you click the update link, it opens a new tab, that goes to the same stupid plugin out date page.
Try to load the addons page? Same thing, it redirects to plugins out of date.Firefox=deleted
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January 20, 2013 at 5:28 pm #2434673
Interesting, I tried to go to IE and found out why I was not using it
by michael jay · about 11 years, 2 months ago
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went to chrome, works well with Windows, my Linux Mint box still holds Firefox 17 which works well.
Will have to give Avant a look, thanks for the note.
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February 2, 2013 at 7:38 am #2426262
Thank you Slayer
by michael jay · about 11 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Firefox plugin check is pissing me off
for the tip, I have been test driving Avant Browser and it is indeed sweet.
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April 10, 2013 at 9:07 am #2903359
Chrome downloads are sure irritating
by slayer_ · about 10 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Thank you Slayer
I switched back to firefox for a bit. Until I realized that I could turn on the Avant download manager.
The Chrome one was beyond irritating. Especially if you are downloading EXE’s. It also doesn’t clean up after itself very easily. So you end up with the same file downloaded over and over with a number appended to it.
Working in Ontime, I download a lot of the attachments for work orders. And it’s nice to in Avant downloader, just click delete and know it deleted the file off my hard drive as well. And since it tracks them all, not just your current session. Cleaning up after several days is still easy.Now I am back to Chrome, with my chief complaint sufficiently hidden. I’m happy again.
I just wish the Chrome spell check was better. It does a lousy job guessing your word. Which is funny because if you copy and paste the word into google and search, 99% of the time it finds the correct spelling of the word.
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January 20, 2013 at 10:47 pm #2434668
not seeing those problems here
by who am i really · about 11 years, 2 months ago
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but that may be as a result of using 3.6.28
I think they dropped the ball with v.4. and up
so I refused the updates whenever they popped up the dialogand the last time I saw an update notice was around v. 11 or 12
I received an update dialog which Threatened me with a forced update at next browser startand the previous update dialog had stated my XP x64 OS was not supported anymore (actually it never was) and I wouldn’t be able to update to v.10
it was after the Threat of forced update that I disabled all Firefox update checks on all my systems
the only issues I have are because of security settings, add-ons & preferences I use and not the browser specifically
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January 28, 2013 at 10:17 am #2443327
Bug filed with Mozilla
by Mary Weilage · about 11 years, 1 month ago
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Thanks to everyone who posted to this thread. We notified our engineering team about this issue, and one of our engineers filed a bug with Mozilla. Firefox 18.0.1 appears to be having issues with the JavaScript framework we use. Unfortunately, there’s nothing we can do to fix it. We’ll keep you posted.
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February 1, 2013 at 12:48 pm #2426286
Gracias, amiga
by charliespencer · about 11 years, 1 month ago
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I lost track of this discussion and missed Slayer’s recommendation that I do the same. Thanks for cleaning up behind me!
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February 1, 2013 at 11:46 am #2426289
Thanks…
by cmiller5400 · about 11 years, 1 month ago
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Thanks for the update Mary!!
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February 5, 2013 at 2:49 pm #2426159
I don’t know about FF but at the moment in IE
by hal 9000 · about 11 years, 1 month ago
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This site is a disaster. Seems that some changes where made within the last 12 hours or so and I’m not able to log into the site from the discussion threads or questions I have to go to the Join TR and maybe then I can log in.
The same is happening in FF17, Ad avant and Opera the current versions under both XP and 7. I’ve noticed this late last night when I had 7 open and was having a quick look. I’m also not getting any notifications of any Spam I flag but this has been going on since 25 January.
Also pages are loading very slowly and worse when I type anything in letters go missing as the site seems way too slow to accept any input.
Col
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February 5, 2013 at 10:18 pm #2426154
Let me check…
by Tammy.Cavadias · about 11 years, 1 month ago
In reply to I don’t know about FF but at the moment in IE
..and see if something is up.
-Tammy
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February 6, 2013 at 2:40 am #2426145
Tammy
by hal 9000 · about 11 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Let me check…
Everything seems to be working right in Win 7 at the moment.
I can log in and post without a problem which is radically different to earlier today. Not sure about XP at the moment as I’m not logging out of this OS and back into XP till tomorrow morning. What can I say I’m lazy. 😉
Col
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February 6, 2013 at 7:36 am #2426132
Glad to hear that…
by Tammy.Cavadias · about 11 years, 1 month ago
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..aren’t you suppose to be sleeping or something? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I miss my old XP machine.. I only have a netbook that still has XP on it (and that still runs IE 5). I do still have a running laptop that has Win 98 (the screen went out years ago so I have to hook it up to a monitor when I use it, which is rarely – normally just to see if it still boots.)
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February 6, 2013 at 7:39 am #2426131
XP Shipped with IE6
by slayer_ · about 11 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Glad to hear that…
What are you trying to pull? lol
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February 26, 2013 at 5:54 pm #2904271
Whoops….bad typo…
by Tammy.Cavadias · about 11 years ago
In reply to XP Shipped with IE6
that was suppose to say 6 (had 5 stuck in my head from Win 98) < blush blush>
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February 26, 2013 at 6:11 pm #2904270
Doesn’t matter
by hal 9000 · about 11 years ago
In reply to Whoops….bad typo…
As it’s Windows so the names are interchangeable and still do not work. 😉
Col
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February 5, 2013 at 3:38 pm #2426158
FYI, the new 18.0.2 doesn’t fix the problem. No text.
by charliespencer · about 11 years, 1 month ago
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February 26, 2013 at 4:33 pm #2904278
And still not fixed in the new 19 either. No text.
by charliespencer · about 11 years ago
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April 4, 2013 at 1:39 pm #2427866
And version 20 doesn’t fix it either. No text.
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 11 months ago
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April 4, 2013 at 1:47 pm #2427865
Well then I know not to bother upgrading
by slayer_ · about 10 years, 11 months ago
In reply to And version 20 doesn’t fix it either. No text.
Because I am sure 20 has added more problems than it has solved.
I have adblock now for Chrome.
I am going to have to see if there is a replacement for noscript, web of trust, and perspectives for Chrome as well.Too bad Chrome still seems slower than firefox.
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April 4, 2013 at 5:15 pm #2427859
Right now I’m testing the new Opera 12.15
by Wizard57M-TR · about 10 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Well then I know not to bother upgrading
on my netbook, WinXP SP3, Opera 12.15 32 bit…reserving judgment til I’ve stressed it a bit more. Wasn’t that impressed with 12.14, but there were a few sites that didn’t play nice with 11.64.
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April 7, 2013 at 10:09 am #2427798
Well, sad to report I’m rather disappointed in Opera 12.15
by Wizard57M-TR · about 10 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Right now I’m testing the new Opera 12.15
So, back to using 11.64, for the time being. Had several instances of a tab not closing, the contents left on display in perpetuity (much like many TOS statements about content you upload to various services), but no link is active, the close button doesn’t work, keyboard non-responsive, but only in the tab I tried to close. I am still hesitant to even try a new Opera when they change browser/Javascript engines to Google’s “Blink”, to me that’s just another Google Chrome with a new skin, much like all the so-called “browsers” we had in the late 90’s early 2000’s that were just a skin for MSIE.
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April 7, 2013 at 5:39 pm #2427787
I am already using one of those so why bother
by slayer_ · about 10 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Well, sad to report I’m rather disappointed in Opera 12.15
Cause I hate the minimalist skins of firefox, chrome and IE.
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April 9, 2013 at 4:07 am #2903412
I can customize more of the FF GUI than other browsers. No text.
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 11 months ago
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April 9, 2013 at 6:56 am #2903406
All browsers are starting to annoy me
by slayer_ · about 10 years, 11 months ago
In reply to I can customize more of the FF GUI than other browsers. No text.
They all seem so slow, prone to locking up while they work in the background. They all use huge memory for no apparent reason.
I have 3 chrome tabs open and it has spawned 8 processes totally about 250mb of RAM. And I have 2 tabs in firefox, totalling another 300mb of RAM.
By comparison, outlook 2010 is using 40 mb of ram. Even with my 8gb inbox.
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April 11, 2013 at 5:36 pm #2903309
Nor 20.0.1. No text.
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 11 months ago
In reply to And version 20 doesn’t fix it either. No text.
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May 1, 2013 at 11:48 am #2903464
Firefox installed itself on my computer
by slayer_ · about 10 years, 10 months ago
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What the f….
Not sure how, I ritually never update anything, and yet somehow I got FF20.
I don’t even use FireFox.-
May 1, 2013 at 3:52 pm #2903458
And IE10 installed itself on my computer
by hal 9000 · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Firefox installed itself on my computer
Well one OS that I don’t use all that much and as a direct result I’m no longer able to log into TR.
Seems that Windows Update broke TR. :^0
Col
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May 1, 2013 at 9:16 pm #2903455
I installed IE10 on my Win7 notebook…
by Wizard57M-TR · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to And IE10 installed itself on my computer
and I’m actually surprised at how quick it is. That notebook is only an old Compaq Presario CQ62, 2 gig ram 320 gig HD, Intel Celeron…IE9 ran “OK”, but so far IE10 is much better, I can even log on to TR! I’ve even slowed on my Opera 11.64 usage on that one. Must be something “down under” that broke your TR, Col, hehe! Are you holding it wrong? Oh, never mind, it’s not an “iGadget”…LOL 🙂
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May 2, 2013 at 6:46 am #2903096
you mean there are things that a Windows updates doesn’t break?
by deadly ernest · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to And IE10 installed itself on my computer
wow, that is news
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May 2, 2013 at 7:04 am #2903095
IE10 broke my system aswell
by slayer_ · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to And IE10 installed itself on my computer
And two others at work here, it made all links unclickable in all browsers.
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May 3, 2013 at 5:06 am #2903062
I just thought of something, maybe related, maybe not…
by Wizard57M-TR · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to IE10 broke my system aswell
are you perchance using 64 bit Windows 7? My old notebook is running 32bit Windows 7 and IE10…there were reports in the past of problems with the 64bit IE on Win7, so, if you are running 64 bit, might try the 32 bit version of IE10 and see if that makes a difference.
Note: this is just a “best guess” type of solution, I have no way of testing it. Just thought I’d throw it out for a possibility. 😉
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May 2, 2013 at 6:45 am #2903097
it may have got done by a sweetheart deal
by deadly ernest · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Firefox installed itself on my computer
whenever you update certain adobe products it installs Google Chrome unless you spot the micro box with the mini tick that’s almost impossible to read and remove the tick before you authorise the update. I think FF may have some similar deals with people.
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May 14, 2013 at 5:39 am #2902789
Maybe the js framework used in TR is not standard enough?
by el_baby · about 10 years, 10 months ago
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I use Ubuntu 12.04 and Firefox 20.0… it seems this problem has been here for some time. MSIE is out of the question for me and I really don’t like having to switch to chromium every time I want to reply to a comment 🙁
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May 14, 2013 at 6:28 am #2902784
Right-click on “Reply,” open link in new tab…
by keighlar · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Maybe the js framework used in TR is not standard enough?
That’s the standard fix for now. Still seems to work.
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May 15, 2013 at 7:32 am #2902753
it works
by el_baby · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Right-click on “Reply,” open link in new tab…
Thank you 🙂
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May 14, 2013 at 6:59 am #2902782
“…for some time.”
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Maybe the js framework used in TR is not standard enough?
I guess four months is a long time on the Internet, but the problem only began early this year.
You can roll FF back to version 17.x, which works with TR. Or, as Keighlar points out, you can right-click ‘Reply’, ‘Edit’, ‘Flag’, etc. and open in new tab.
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May 21, 2013 at 1:22 pm #2428611
Firefox 21
by cmiller5400 · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Problems viewing TR via Firefox?
Is still broken 🙁
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May 22, 2013 at 8:42 am #2428582
Isn’t there that TR addin for firefox
by slayer_ · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Firefox 21
maybe they could fix it.
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May 22, 2013 at 8:43 am #2428581
I can’t say I’m surprised. No text.
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 10 months ago
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May 22, 2013 at 9:38 am #2428579
Didn’t someone post somewhere that version 23 worked again (nt)
by slayer_ · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to I can’t say I’m surprised. No text.
nt
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May 22, 2013 at 10:14 am #2428576
Somewhere around here, yes.
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Didn’t someone post somewhere that version 23 worked again (nt)
I’m holding out for a hero…
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