On Mon, 20 Apr 2015, Mike Luther wrote to All:   
      
    MikeL> As I've commented, I use only one Windows unit for research    
    MikeL> purposes only. I've noticed that I get a recently introduced    
    MikeL> lockup in IE 8 latest whatever with it when a single site    
    MikeL> attempts to use Javascript.  Takes a good while to get IE 8 to    
    MikeL> even close and it does not even close properly but attempts to    
    MikeL> send Microsoft the error data.  Which in that M/S doesn't    
    MikeL> 'support' the WIN XP stuff 'no mow', I don't send it that data.   
      
   is it only one site that you are having a problem with? it may be crappy   
   javascript or it could be a malware infestation trying to get in... do you   
   block ads? the ad networks get infiltrated at times and start spewing malware   
   stuffs... if you can provide the url of the site, i can try to take a look at   
   it... have you tried a different browser? firefox (with adblockplus and   
   noscript) or chrome or opera?   
      
    MikeL> I've seen comments in my other pile of information sites that    
    MikeL> there have been major error issues relative to what was said as    
    MikeL> Windows operation and that that has included serious issues    
    MikeL> with Java that as commented have been addressed by Java    
    MikeL> whomever.  Nothing has showed up in this test unit as to any    
    MikeL> Java update however.  Any thoughts on this?   
      
   the first thing to understand, which you might already know and that many do   
   not, is that java and javascript are two different things and don't have   
   anything to do with each other... javascript is actually ECMAscript... java is   
   a whole different beast...   
      
   SUN used to handle java but now Oracle owns it... looking at their site, since   
   XP support was discontinued, java on XP is also no longer supported...   
   apparently the last java that ran on XP was java 7 which users can still run   
   at their own risk but no support will be given for XP and older...   
      
   java 8 update 45 is the latest but only for vista and up winwhatever variants,   
   Mac OS X, Linux and 64bit Solaris and Solaris SPARC...   
      
    MikeL> I'll note that this unit does have the 2015 Global Protection Panda   
    MikeL> product on it for virus and malware.  Which has not interceded on   
    MikeL> any of this issue at this point.   
      
   check your panda settings and see if it is silently blocking that script or   
   site... i don't use panda and certainly none of anyone's global protection   
   firewall, filters, scanners... i much prefer to use my own choices and get   
   multiple opinions about questionable files and sites if/when i run into them   
   but that's not very often for me and the stuff i'm interested in ;)    
      
    MikeL> Any thoughts on this?   
      
   i dunno? :lol:    
      
   )\/(ark   
      
    * Origin:  (1:3634/12)