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Messages - Dave Palmer

#1
Internet / Re: Unsigned Firefox add-ons
2010.06.24, 07:52:33
Ivan,

Thanks for that piece of information - it looks like I  should be able to make it work - the TCPIP upgrade that is.

I'm slow to respond these days - the sun - i.e. summer - finally appeared here on the USA west coast.

After weeks, seems like months, of rain - the sun is finally shining and hot.  We've got outside chores to catch up on, some equipment broke and needs repair, we're organizing a community Independence Day parade and computers and software have slipped into the background for now.

I'll stay in touch and hopefully I can seek your advice as I progress.

Regards
Dave
#2
Internet / Re: Unsigned Firefox add-ons
2010.06.22, 18:13:59
Ivan,

Maybe my senility if over powering me - but wasn't a Software Choice  service required for the upgrade to the 32bit stack?

Dave
#3
Internet / Re: Unsigned Firefox add-ons
2010.06.21, 18:55:07
Ivan -
Thanks again.

My deepest sympathy for having lost a daughter - I can't imagine the pain.

Yes, I am borked.  OS2MT comes up with a number of possible downloads/fixes for the system.  Some choices I'm not qualified for, as I have no Software Subscription .

I think it is time to consider installing eCS as the best solution.

Dave

#4
Internet / Re: Unsigned Firefox add-ons
2010.06.20, 02:09:23
Back again and still stymied.

Before I went and restored the old full drive backup I wanted to try a trick or two.

I found the release copy of 2.0.0.13 and installed it.  No change in the results - add-ons appear unsigned and won't install.

I hid my profile, and reinstalled Firefox, letting it create a new profile.  The same results - unsigned add-ons won't install.

I played around with add-on list and tried add-ons I didn't want - WOT, FLASHGOT and others.  They are signed and did install.

I tried my wife's XP system.  XP shows the signatures on the add-ons as invalid, but Firefox on XP will install the add-on.

By now I am frustrated.

I decided to explore Firefox options with about:config and found this:
network.jar.open-unsafe-types

I changed the setting to 'TRUE' and everything which wouldn't install before, will install now.

Was I just lucky on my easter-egg-hunt or is this an appropriate solution to the problem?

I'd appreciate feedback.
Thank,
Dave
#5
Internet / Re: Unsigned Firefox add-ons
2010.06.19, 22:16:54
Ivan,

Borked?  Love it - one of my favorite portions of ST TNG - need to add it to my vocabulary.

It appears I am borked bad.  I erased the current Firefox (which is old 2.0.0.13) and downloaded a new copy (stumbled into Bon Echo versions) and I have the same problem.

All add-ons show as "Unsigned" and they won't install.

I'll  have to go back to a full backup of the system and see what happens then -

Thanks - I'll be back in a couple of days
Dave
#6
Internet / Unsigned Firefox add-ons
2010.06.19, 05:57:19
Back again-
Some days it is hard to win.

Suspect Adblock Plus was contributing to my earlier problem.  When it is disabled Firefox does not abend -

I uninstalled my add-ons and went out to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox  to get a new copy.

Now - Adblock - and everyother add-on which I selected is shown as 'unsigned' and I can't get my version of Firefox to install any unsigned add-ons.

I've cleared the cache, history and cookies, I've rebooted, etc. etc.and I still have no success. 

I did about:config and find no options or overrides for unsigned add-ons there.

In all the years I've been on OS/2 - since 2.1 - this last month has been the most frustrating and difficult.

Hope this 'unsigned' solution is an easy one.  Does anyone have a solution?

Thanks
Dave
#7
Thanks Rudi and Ivan -

The stack is likely my issue - and it appears I'll be held up with it - which would likely prevent the Rich Walsh solution from working too.

Guess I'll have to bite th bullet and upgrade to eCs - but the thought of conversion is chilling.  I still have old DOS and Windows apps which require the the comport for control of a programmable power line controller device - which itself is no longer manufactured or supported -

So even though I have the memory (2gb) and processor speed I am cautious about conversions -

But - with Firefox issues even more is at risk or of concern...

Thanks
Dave
#8
Need some advice.

I've stuck with Firefox 2.0.0.13 for a long time - it worked.

Now I seem to have mysterious failures and weird results (missing images, flashing screens, strobe light like effects, and abends) which encourage me to upgrade.

I've noticed that most, if not all failures take place after visiting sites which have popups (blocked by adblockplus) or Flash (which I can't view) .  These sites appear to cause the screen to blink and later on I start having more problems and sometimes and eventual abend of Firefox.

When I install a new version (after erasing the old firefox)  Firefox never downloads a screen.  No matter what I point to, I get an immediate "Done" but nothing has downloaded.  So I've not been able to proceed further. 

This has happened last Dec., Jan, May and now June - so it is repeatable, but not desirable. 

In each case I go back to 2.0.0.13 and it works with the problems already mentioned.

I've tried running in -safe-mode and so far it is more stable -

Sysinfo/2 reports:
Version: OS/2 4.00 US (IBM OS/2 Base Operating System)
Kernel: 14.103a (from WSeB CP#2/Warp 4 CP#2 PostFix)
FixPack: Warp 4 FixPack #15 US (XR0M015)

Where do I go from here? 
Thanks
Dave
#9
Hope  good news is appropriate.
Had to get off SOYO mobo - 2nd gb of memory wasn't detected and firewire miniDV wasn't working (XP project)

Primary Warp user and tad bit nervous about swapping out mobo and keeping HD with Warp, etc.

Warp  couldn't have gone easier - it booted first time and all I needed to do was swap to Realtek driver and everything worked (of course no miniDV firewire support)

XP?  A nightmare.  Required a install repair (2+ hours) plus fighting AGP software and sound - but miniDV did work.  Consumed most of a day resolving issues.

Just pleased as can be that Warp slipped in so easily -
Dave
#10
Hmmm, Robert,
Thought I'd had replied a day or two ago.  ? what happened.

Understand your point.  Thanks for explaining so well.

When all is said and done though, the site still doesn't work for me, but at the same time it will work on an XP system.

On another ISP I've multiple domains - and they aren't working (all the time) but always under XP.  The tech support is working this one, but giving excuses and something about database accesses and shared  stuff.

I've moved 3 of the troublesome sites to another ISP host and they work fine, everytime. 

Rather than pursue this further and further, I either switch to XP (not in this lifetime) or switch ISPs - and I'll do the latter.

Hate to leave an unsolved real problem, but I'm ready for a hands-on working solution and the shortest distance to that goal is to switch ISP.

Thanks to all who contributed!
Dave
#11
Rob and Thomas,
Thanks for the additional legwork.  I'm learning a lot from your efforts.

Somewhat confused - the link both of you provided took me to the forum start page - so I didn't see what you wanted me to see.

As to the web page (index.html) it isn't a generated page.  The code viewable (View>Page Source) is the same as the offline code I have here.  I have to admit I don't read what I call xhtml and css stuff very well and the flash coding is way beyond my knowledge - and if any of that coding has links to generators I wouldn't know it.

I can compare the visible downloaded index.html with the master copy I have and at the end user level everything appears the same.

Because it is an intermittent problem and the the web page is working today and I am not sure if I should pursue this or not -

Comments?
Thanks
Dave
#12
Gosh, I'm in debt to all the work you guys are doing and have done.

I feel somewhat better, now that a couple of you have encountered a similar issue.

Since it seems to be something on the server end, how the hector do I  pursue it with the ISP?

As a end user I just don't have the tools to document the inconsistent output that the site provides.

Plus, and this has happened before, everytime I mention OS/2, the discussion ends and I find it hard to overcome the fingerpointing that goes on.

Tell me if you can - what is it about index.html that stops it from working - but 1.html, 2.html etc. don't seem to thave the same trouble. 

There's a temptation to just switch over to XP - but I don't want to....
Dave

#13
Everyone, thanks for the feedback. 

PhotonFx is a package I picked up which does a fairly easy job of web page creation and maintenance at the end user level.

I've 5 sites which I volunteered to setup and did so  over the years in a roll-your-own way.  It was fast and easy for me, but no one could pick it up.  I need to move these sites to the owners.

This package allowed me to keep a lot of design appearances and someday soon these organizations will pick up their own maintenance.

Having said that - I'll look at the end of file characters and the aline vs align problem.

The flash stuff is in there for some options that are offered on link design.  As I recall they used shading of the buttons as the mouse goes over - or something like that - I didn't implement that but the package still creates the code - which, as you noticed, is not appropriate.

Yes there is one page missing - alderhouseinfo  and I need to fix that - but that site is really dormant and that's why I am playing with it now.

I'm using FireFox 2.0.0.13, and I do have AdBlockPlus - don't know if either could be the problem.  Usually adblock tells me when something is blocked.

The only firewall I have is the dsl modem and I took the default back in 2007 and haven't touched it since. 
I do have a hosts file sitting there since June of 2008 - I'l rename it, reboot and test some more-
Thanks again,
Dave
p.s. really appreciate the feedback - keep it up, I buried my pride of authorship a long time ago - it just didn't pay off - ever



pps:  Just rebooted, without the hosts file and have the same problems.  One thing I failed mentioned, often, when I clear the firefox  cache the page will be retrieved.
If I don't clear the cache, then the screen status simply says 'done', nothing is displayed, and View>PageSource retrieves nothing.

What is irritating as the devil - everything works with Firefox under XP - on the same system (swappable drives) via the same modem, etc.  It also works on my wife's XP system... arggggh!

#14
Ahhhg - this one was on me ???

Thanks for the questions and comments.  They led me to do what I should have done in the first place.

I'd assumed the file (index.html) was valid.  It appears it is not - and I've no idea what is wrong with it.

To prove this I built a very simple web page and loaded copies 1, 22, thru 7777777.html
I retrieved those pages with:
<html>
<br><a href="http://www.alderhouse.org/1.html"> 1 character</a>
<br><a href="http://www.alderhouse.org/22.html"> 2 character</a>
<br><a href="http://www.alderhouse.org/333.html"> 3 character</a>
<br><a href="http://www.alderhouse.org/4444.html"> 4 character</a>
<br><a href="http://www.alderhouse.org/55555.html"> 5 character</a>
<br><a href="http://www.alderhouse.org/666666.html"> 6 character</a>
<br><a href="http://www.alderhouse.org/7777777.html"> 7 character</a>
<br><a href="http://www.alderhouse.org/index.html">index page</a>
</html>

Everyone of the 1 - 7's  can be retrieved, whereas  index.html could not be.
The same results are obtained when the url is typed in the address bar.

The website was  built by a website generator, so I trusted that the output would be valid.  It appears that it is not and I've got to find out why. 

There are two  confusing point in all this:
1  others - like you - could easily retrieve the page in question - so is there an add-on or add-in for Firefox that makes all this work?
2 for 12 months - or more - this site has worked -

I'll  find a older version of Firefox and see if I can get around this.

Sorry I didn't dig further the first time.
Dave
#15
Gosh - I hope the solar sunspot cycle returns to normal soon, and then maybe my systems would work.

My most recent issue deals with retrieving something as simple as:  www.alderhouse.org/index.html

Right now my system fails to retrieve that page or any page with a similar name length.

If I rename the index.html to, say, a.html it will work

If I rename it to something other than 4, 5 or 6 characters in length, it will work.

If it is left at 4, 5 or 6 characters - it will not work. 

The value of the name does not matter - only the length.

What is wrong?  Surely I can't be the only one to which this has happened.  Or am I?

By the way this is on a different ISP - nothing to do with the one which was the subject of my earlier problem.

Running Warp, 4.5 - very inactive system - no maintenance since I upgraded to  VOICE PMmail 3.00.00.0981 (10968),    Apr  7 2008

Suggestions. laughter and criticism all welcome and appreciated.
Dave