Q: I was on my Linux box just to practice this post. I believe that every page in the main window fine, and most links work, but everything with a kind of pop-up window does not create the work including all buttons and features AM.
Tried disabling integrated pop-up blocker, turn off the ad blocking in Norton, disable all Norton products, Googlebar remove, reinstall Googlebar, adding AnandTech on trusted sites, and rocking myself to sleep in a fetal position while sucking my thumb.
Any suggested I reformat and NOT install SP2?
Re:The SP2 upgrade probably removed the MS Java runtime engine if you had it previously.
For legal reasons, Microsoft is no longer allowed to distribute Java with its operating system. If you had it previously, I believe current updates will automatically remove it.
Go here to download Sun Java runtime engine:
http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
Re:Or OPERA
Lovely browser – a pleasure to use
Re:Originally posted by: guy
My problem with FF is this… how do you know if it's being exploited or not? At least IE has major updates all the time.
Yes, and IE's updates usually come at the same time, or sometimes after, you hear about an exploit for IE.
How many times do you hear about exploits for FF? Not very often, if ever, right? That's why there are fewer security-related updates, because FF doesn't need them as badly as IE does, because FF was far better designed. (It has had some security updates – all browsers have bugs. FF just has far less security-related ones than IE ever has.)
It's like saying, you dont' trust Subarus as much as Ford Explorers, because you never hear about Subarus rolling-over during accidents in the news… Huh!?
Re:I adjusted the Spybot S&D Immunization options at the bottom and now can post!
Re:Maybe my upgrade went bad, gonna reformat Sunday evening if nobody has any other suggestions.
Re:Generally if IE is blocking something in SP2 it will make a sound and then show the information bar. If you aren't seeing this I would be curious if it's not something else. I haven't had any issues with the default SP2 IE settings with Anandtech.
Re:My problem with FF is this… how do you know if it's being exploited or not? At least IE has major updates all the time.
Re:don't use IE,
i'd give FireFox a chance, i've heard many people that never go back to using Internet Explorer after they've had the FF experience
Re:Where is the control for the Java stuff? I've looked in Tools->Internet Options->Advanced. Any place else to look?
Re:SP2 is weird with java and active X, try and manually turn those on and see if it works… watch below your menu bars for the yellow pop-down that will tell you if something wa blocked. It only tells you when it blocks active X or popups though, not java. Lots of my java stuff doesn't work with SP2, although, I use these forums just fine with SP2.
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