On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > On Friday, February 13, 2015 07:12:37 AM Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2015-02-13, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: >> > Greetings; >> > >> > Is there any way to get rid of all these boring screen decorations >> > saying javascipt doesn't work? >> > >> > There are quite a few javascript "engines" installed, but I haven't >> > managed to find that Magic Twanger yet. >> > >> > Is this a conscious effort to get rid of javascript? Or can it be >> > fixed with additional packages installed? >> > >> > Thanks all. >> > >> > Cheers, Gene Heskett >> >> Could you tell us what Debian release and browser you are using, and >> what web pages cause the behaviour you describe? Then we would be in a >> better position to help you. > > This is a special compilation that is 99.9% Wheezy, put together by the > LinuxCNC people, using the wheezy repos with a couple added lines in the > /etc/apt/sources.list, available as the hybride-iso on the linuxcnc.org > web site. The previous install I ran for quite a while was ubuntu-10.04.4 > LTS, with a special RTAI patched kernel, and it started doing this also > shortly after the hurrah about javascript having an exploitable problem. I > figured it would be fixed by now in a newer install. It effects anything > that looks like a browser, Konqueror, iceweasal, firefox, but have not > checked w3m however.
w3m doesn't support javascript, so you won't have any javascript-related trouble with it. :-) [SNIP] > Now, the javascript problem? Still remains. A PIMA, if I goto > www.cbsnews.com it will start to display it, for perhaps a second, then > this warning pops up and completely displaces the sites content downward > and off screen about twice the height of the screen so at first glance, > you assume the site is not available, but on this 1920x1280 monitor, its > still there but you have to scroll down about 1.5 to 2x the screens height > to see the sites contents. > > Slashdot for instance, has about 50% of its screen area devoted to > javascript errors. The site can still be used by iceweasal but its quite > annoying. Konqueror just throw up its hands and sits there, no response to > clicking on any sublink on any of the mainsleeze news sites. That's bizarre. I have no such issues with www.cbsnews.com or slashdot.org when using iceweasel. I don't use konqueror, so I can't offer a comparison there. What do the errors say? > > Lots of javascript stuff is installed, but something is blocking its use. > and no "blockers" like add-block and its ilk are installed. > > Thanks Liam. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/slrnmds0tl.crl.liam.p.otoole@dipsy.tubbynet
