| Re: chrome browser update [message #92425 is a reply to message #92424] |
Mon, 14 December 2015 01:53   |
Helder Marchetto
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Registered: November 2011
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On Monday, December 14, 2015 at 9:42:58 AM UTC, Helder wrote:
> On Monday, December 14, 2015 at 2:55:30 AM UTC, David Grier wrote:
>> On Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 6:34:01 PM UTC-5, Helder wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I've updated to chrome version 47.0.2526.80 m on Friday (I believe). Since then the help pages of IDL look corrupt... Everyword in the text is highlighted as if it were a link (blue and underlined).
>>> Since I haven't changed IDL in a while, I suppose this is a pure chrome problem. However, here are my questions:
>>>
>>> 1) Am I the only one? Anybody seeing such problems?
>>> 2) Could it be that the html help files are not "ideal" for a browser to unequivocally interpret them?
>>>
>>> Here is my IDL version:
>>> IDL> !version
>>> {
>>> "ARCH": "x86_64",
>>> "OS": "Win32",
>>> "OS_FAMILY": "Windows",
>>> "OS_NAME": "Microsoft Windows",
>>> "RELEASE": "8.5",
>>> "BUILD_DATE": "Jul 7 2015",
>>> "MEMORY_BITS": 64,
>>> "FILE_OFFSET_BITS": 64
>>> }
>>>
>>> I'm not having any problems with internet explore (or shall I say "edge") or Firefox.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any tips on how to fix this.
>>> Html, css and all that fancy stuff are not my bread-n-butter.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Helder
>>
>> This sounds like a malware infection that doesn't have anything to do with IDL.
>>
>> Even so ...
>>
>> Some web site or third-party software site may have installed one
>> or more chrome extensions in your browser whose role is to
>> filter incoming web pages and incorporate links to advertising.
>> These links often show up as double-underlined words, or highlighted
>> words, or both.
>>
>> Go through chrome://extensions to see if there's anything in the list
>> of installed extensions that you don't recognize. Removing such things
>> (and perhaps restarting chrome) may be all you need to do.
>>
>> More annoying instances involve web pages or software packages
>> surreptitiously installing adware on your system. You might
>> want to look for applications that were installed with or without your knowledge
>> at about the time the weird behavior started. If you find anything odd,
>> consider uninstalling it.
>>
>> Beware of google searches regarding this matter. The top its are for
>> companies that offer to remove adware from your system. They're likely to be
>> the people who arranged to put it there in the first place!
>>
>> Happy system-cleaning!
>>
>> David
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> Hi David,
> thanks for the suggestion. This is getting OT, so I will keep it short. I first really want to be sure that it's not a chrome issue, therefore I would like to know if anybody has the same version of Chrome running on Win 10 64-bits.
> I'm normally very cautious about new software, specially when not from the usual sources (eg Microsoft). I have disabled every extensions (only had a couple of the ones from MS (docs and so on) and check my list of installed software. Nothing suspicious there.
>
> While I try to clean up chrome, I've tried changing the default browser to Edge, but this has not worked. Here is what I've tried:
> - Settings -> General -> "Use external web browser" -> Internet Explorer
> - Settings -> Help -> Open help contents -> In an external web browser
> However, help (F1 on a selected function/pro) opens in Chrome.
>
> Any suggestion?
>
> Thanks,
> Helder
It seems like in IDL 8.3, IDL could only open the default web browser and it still does:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/comp.lang.idl-pvw ave/help$20browser/comp.lang.idl-pvwave/ZRgAgJsmEqo/LfcCBGXl Z6UJ
Has this bug not been fixed or is it fixable?
Cheers,
Helder
PS: I hate the idea of a non working default browser that makes me switch to Edge... Only the IDL help is displayed "strange", the rest is fine. I like Chrome and I would really like to stick to it.
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