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

Geraldo Lino de Campos geraldo at decampos.net
Fri Jan 15 10:03:48 UTC 2010


It works fine for me. Windows XP SP2, Firefox 3.5.7, DELL Inspiron 1525.

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> 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
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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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