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Offline Jack W

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« on: July 19, 2010, 01:01:20 PM »
Hi y'all

Got a couple of problems with TS:

1) The Options button at the top of each forum no longer works like it used to.
I used to click and hold on it and it would have a drop-down menu that included 'Clear unread and return' or some such thing.
Now, when I click and hold, nuthin' happens, and then when I releas, it just jumps to the bottom of the page.

2) The little forum selector at the botton of the forum page also stopped working. I used to be able to click on the window and select a different forum, release, and away it would go. Now it just leaves the new forum selection in the window, and I have to click the Go button.

3) And I just noticed that the cute little icon dropdown has dissapeared. No more :smiley faces: and :teardrops: and :Thanks: emoticons.
The "Enable emoticons" and "Enable signature" boxes are both checked at the bottom of the Post New Topic screen.

This sounds like my personal TS preferences got mucked up. But I haven't been there for several weeks. I guess I gotta try that next.

These just started happening the last couple of days.

What the hey did I screw up now????

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« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2010, 02:37:04 PM »
Jack, they're still working fine for me, so try dumping your Safari cache, and logging in and out of TS to see if that helps any.
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« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2010, 07:29:22 PM »
Same here. Maybe just change a pref and open a thread or two and then go back and set it back to what you want. You probably already have javascript enabled or you'd see a hugely different board... Or, it could just be you're too close to Lake Weird! eek2.gif
« Last Edit: July 19, 2010, 07:30:57 PM by Xairbusdriver »
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« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2010, 09:03:59 PM »
Works fine in Safari. lt Fails in firefox. lt must be sumpin i changed in lil snitch, or wherever. gotta go check into these. or mebee it has somthin to do with lake wierd, as jim mentioned.

Additional info: I ran Cache Out X 4.7.2, Applejack 1.5 — The interesting thing is that I ran this new version about the time things started going flakey. ??? Still the same problems. I am going to run OnyX now.

And what's with my post above???? Getting stranger by the minute.
« Last Edit: July 19, 2010, 11:14:27 PM by kimmer »
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« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2010, 11:15:26 PM »
QUOTE(Jack W @ Jul 19 2010, 06:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
And what's with my post above???? Getting stranger by the minute.


No answer on the board prob, but the post prob was html coding that snuck in there somehow. I cleaned it out. Hopefully I got your message correct.
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« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2010, 11:17:04 PM »
Um...how'd you manage to get all that HTML code in there, Jack?  blink.gif

Which browser were you using to post that with??

You could try creating another user account (in OS X, not here!) and seeing if all the strangeness continues. If not, then you'll at least know that it's something screwy to do with your user account and you can work from there.

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« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2010, 11:19:22 PM »
firefox 3.6.6

works fine in Safari
« Last Edit: July 19, 2010, 11:20:03 PM by Jack W »
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« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2010, 09:16:04 AM »
Just dumped firefox folder in Applications Support (to desktop) .

All problems cured.

Now to restore the ff folder back into App Support,

and try to figure out what caused the problem

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« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2010, 03:14:15 PM »
If it's possible, it might be easier to just D/L the latest FF and then repace your 'profile' folder/file from that folder on your Desktop? Ateast everything else would be clean and well ironed! rofl.gif
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« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2010, 08:35:34 PM »
Hi Jim,

The problem appears to be within the "Profiles" folder.

The hard part will be to figure out the culprit.

I won't have much time to work on it soon, since I am leaving Saturday to meet my kids at a cottage on Lake Huron for a week.

Boy, is that going to be fun!

I'll let you all know what I find out when I find it.

But, in the meantime, Safari is working well.

- Jack
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« Reply #10 on: July 21, 2010, 01:35:17 AM »
No problems in Safari, West of the Olentangy! Or the Platte. Or the Colorado. Or the Sacramento!

Now that helps a lot, doesn't it!
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« Reply #11 on: July 21, 2010, 06:50:07 AM »
Jack, here's a handy list of the Mozilla files found in your profile and what they are:

http://gemal.dk/mozilla/files.html

You won't have all of them, and some of them are Windows-only, but they'll give you a good idea of what might be corrupted and what could be removed.

I'd try removing the Cache files first. If that doesn't have any effect, then I'd remove the prefs files (both of them) - move them to the desktop if you want, or just trash them. Depends how long it will take you to reset any preferences. (in my case, not long)

Also, do you have any add-ons or extensions installed that might be causing trouble?
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« Reply #12 on: July 21, 2010, 02:43:09 PM »
Hi Paddy.

I have the following add-ons installed:

AddBlockPlus 1.2.1
Flashblock 1.5.13
FlashGot 1.2.1.27
Garman Communicator 2.9.2
GoogleSharing 0.19
NoScript 1.10
UserAgentSwitcher 0.7.2

These were not updated until after I started having the problems.

I will try your suggestion.

Thanks, Jack
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« Reply #13 on: July 21, 2010, 03:23:48 PM »
Paddy,

I tried trashing all-things cache to no avail.

So I trashed the 'firefox' folder (actually moved it to the desktop temporarily.

Then restarted and chose 'import stuff from Safari

That fixed my previous problems, however, now I cannot edit this message.

I can only insert new text at the beginning or end.

And, of course, all my add-ons have to be redone.

And my bookmarks are different.

Don't we have fun???

Thanks, Jack
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« Reply #14 on: July 21, 2010, 04:11:38 PM »
A little more checking, adding add-ons back in one-at-a-time says

NoScript 1.10 was the culprit!!!!!!

Disabled him eliminated my original problems.

Still have the problem of not being able to edit within the current editing session.

- Jack
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