Thanks for your comments. I truly appreciate them! On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Michael Butash wrote: > Honestly it sounds like infrastructure/code problems on their side more > than browser scripting, but different versions of browsers interpret things > differently. I see big differences between milestone releases of > chrome/chromium how certain webapps work differently, and a complicated > "social networking" site is no different. > > Your issue sounds like a hung session that eventually timed out, > reconnected, and got its resource finally. Bad/broken scripting (or > server) causes odd timing events too with menus and other mouse-over events > that sometimes I see not fully complete, even flicker. Load balancers > cause this kind of errant display when dealing with non-stateful code, but > largely depends on what framework and language they use for their content > menus. I see lots of craziness like that with asp or any windows-y code in > anything but ie. > > You don't "need" notscript, only your symptoms sound like when js *is* > broken from it disallowing scripting by default. It won't help you here, > but still good to have. > > Most sites want js actually, only im selective about what gets allowed. > Keeps crazy scripting and tracking to a minimum when they truly add no > value (to me). > > You'll see things like double-click, intellitxt, and various other > parasitic sites that try to run scripts to track, advertise, and in other > ways exploit local scripting for their business necessity. I find most > times I only need to enable scripting on one site, the parent site, and > leave the other 9 blocked to function. Sites like gawkers are terrible, > requiring 4-5 domains just to function for content delivery. I avoid them > as poorly designed and now annoying. > > This reduces the overall possibility someone will infect you with a > drive-by script attack (rogue ad in facebook seems most common). Kept me > virus free for duration of windoze use with noscript+firefox, but it > reduces marketing nausea under linux as well using notscript+chrome. > > I use this as kind of a gauge how much a site is out to screw me. Sadly > more do than don't. RSS is a good way to bypass it as well to get content > off a site without direct scripting. > > -mb > > > > > On 07/04/2012 08:34 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> Hmmmmm..... this is interesting. I git an email stating someone left me >> a message and I followed the link and everything loaded correctly. It >> must have taken a while to take effect (I guess). Anyways.... how will I >> be able to tell if a site need JS? >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Michael Havens > > wrote: >> >> But it works with my ubuntu box but not on the mint laptop. (both >> running chromium) Thanks for looking at the site. >> Okay, so I installed the notscripts extension, set the password, and >> restarted, and added hi5 to the white list.... but none of those >> steps helped any. >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Michael Butash > > wrote: >> >> Noscript (firefox) or notscript (chrome equivalent) are >> extensions, security, default denies scripts and breaks anything >> remotely web2.0ish with good reason. Necessary evil, especially >> if you use windoze. I use it mostly to deny advertisements or >> other ill attempts at getting more script access than i wish to >> give questionable vendors. Sites using them are questionable >> enough to allow as it is. >> >> I'm thinking it's more crap scripting that doesn't work entirely >> compatible with chrom(e|ium), ie errata/bug. I've seen some odd >> scripting differences using chrome under windows or chromium >> under linux on enterprise-y necessary crapware (ahem, cisco acs >> and others) that I can't explain other than scripting >> fixes/changes between versions trying to make sense of ambiguous >> code. >> >> That *social* site looks as though it will test your scripting >> to see what it can extract from your computer for user >> information, expect compatibility issues outside of IE that it >> would just otherwise use to mirror your hard disk to their >> server. :) >> >> -mb >> > ------------------------------**--------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.**phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.**us/mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: