Rex,
seems to run OK for me using XP and Firefox on a Toshiba laptop.
I'm not sure just what I should see, but I got the eclipse path and
the software lets me look at profiles for places that I specify.
Keith G Malcolm
VK1KM/VK2AEM
Message: 5
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:50:15 -0800
From: Rex <r...@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
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