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 <bmike1@gmail.com<mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> 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 <michael@butash.net<mailto:michael@butash.net>> 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
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