| chrome browser update [message #92422] |
Sun, 13 December 2015 15:33  |
Helder Marchetto
Messages: 520
Registered: November 2011
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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
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| Re: chrome browser update [message #92423 is a reply to message #92422] |
Sun, 13 December 2015 18:55  |
dg86
Messages: 118
Registered: September 2012
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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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| Re: chrome browser update [message #92424 is a reply to message #92423] |
Mon, 14 December 2015 01:42 |
Helder Marchetto
Messages: 520
Registered: November 2011
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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
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
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| Re: chrome browser update [message #92425 is a reply to message #92424] |
Mon, 14 December 2015 01:53 |
Helder Marchetto
Messages: 520
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
>
> 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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| Re: chrome browser update [message #92426 is a reply to message #92425] |
Mon, 14 December 2015 02:35 |
greg.addr
Messages: 160
Registered: May 2007
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On Monday, December 14, 2015 at 10:53:25 AM UTC+1, Helder wrote:
> 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
>>
>> 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.
Hi Helder,
I've been seeing the same problem on my laptop the last couple of days (Win7 and Chrome, IDL 8.4). I haven't investigated it at all yet, but that it happened at the same time may suggest you're right about the Chrome update... or we got simultaneous malware updates.
cheers,
Greg
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| Re: chrome browser update [message #92427 is a reply to message #92426] |
Mon, 14 December 2015 02:44 |
Helder Marchetto
Messages: 520
Registered: November 2011
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On Monday, December 14, 2015 at 10:35:21 AM UTC, greg...@googlemail.com wrote:
> On Monday, December 14, 2015 at 10:53:25 AM UTC+1, Helder wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>>> 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.
>
>
> Hi Helder,
>
> I've been seeing the same problem on my laptop the last couple of days (Win7 and Chrome, IDL 8.4). I haven't investigated it at all yet, but that it happened at the same time may suggest you're right about the Chrome update... or we got simultaneous malware updates.
>
> cheers,
> Greg
Thanks Greg for that! I was already panicking about malaware...
I learned about malaware and viruses when I was younger (x-years ago) and got burned. I learn by experience, so since then, I have always been very very careful...
Cheers,
Helder
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| Re: chrome browser update [message #92428 is a reply to message #92426] |
Mon, 14 December 2015 02:48 |
greg michael
Messages: 163
Registered: January 2006
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On Monday, December 14, 2015 at 11:35:21 AM UTC+1, greg...@googlemail.com wrote:
> On Monday, December 14, 2015 at 10:53:25 AM UTC+1, Helder wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>>> 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.
>
>
> Hi Helder,
>
> I've been seeing the same problem on my laptop the last couple of days (Win7 and Chrome, IDL 8.4). I haven't investigated it at all yet, but that it happened at the same time may suggest you're right about the Chrome update... or we got simultaneous malware updates.
>
> cheers,
> Greg
Now I've found it on another machine of mine, also Win7-64, Chrome Version 47.0.2526.80 m. IDL 8.4. Wasn't doing this last week.
I tried disabling all chrome extensions and restarting - no change.
cheers,
Greg
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| Re: chrome browser update [message #92429 is a reply to message #92428] |
Mon, 14 December 2015 06:20 |
Nuno Ferreira
Messages: 16
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I noticed the same problem these last few days (underlined blue text in IDL help, like a link) and today I cannot use IDL Help: all I get is a text file called "olh_anchor_redir.html" with the text below. I am using Chrome version 47.0.2526.80 m.
Cheers,
Nuno
<!--
This file was created by IDL to work around limitations of
the Microsoft Windows ShellExecute() function:
- If you pass ShellExecute() a URL containing an HTML
anchor, it strips the anchor off the URL and the browser
never sees it.
- There are hacks involving the FindExecutable() function
that can trick ShellExecute() into not stripping the anchor,
but they have the unwanted side effect of starting a new
browser instance for each such call.
- You can just skip ShellExecute() and talk to InternetExplorer
directly, but that locks out other browsers and is fairly
difficult as well. Plus, it won't track changes Microsoft may
make to the browser.
In addition, it is used to work around a similar problem on Unix
systems where a URL containing a pipe symbol '|' is interpreted by the
shell and cannot be passed through to the Javascript interpreting the
URL. The help symbol uses the string '|Firstpick' to indicate that the
first topic found in the query should be loaded but this URL cannot
be sent directly to the browser because the shell treats it as a
pipe symbol to control i/o.
Alternatively, you can generate a temporary HTML file containing a
refresh META tag, and pass the URL for that file to ShellExecute().
This is that file.
You can remove this file if you wish. IDL will recreate it whenever it
needs it. The specific situation where that occurs is a call to
ONLINE_HELP that specifies a non-NULL topic and which sets the
BOOK keyword to the name of an HTML file.
-->
<html>
<!-- saved from url=(0014)about:internet -->
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL='file:///C:/Program Files/Exelis/IDL84/help/online_help/IDL/idl_CSH.htm#NULL'">
</head>
</html>
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| Re: chrome browser update [message #92438 is a reply to message #92433] |
Tue, 15 December 2015 18:40 |
chris_torrence@NOSPAM
Messages: 528
Registered: March 2007
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Senior Member |
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On Monday, December 14, 2015 at 9:36:52 AM UTC-7, Nuno Ferreira wrote:
> Sorry about this last message. I finally understood why the "olh_anchor_redir.html" text file was appearing - it was related with the association of the ".html" file extension in my computer.
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> Cheers,
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> Nuno
Hi all,
There's no malware - this is a bug that Chrome introduced - apparently they decided to clamp down on something related to namespaces, which causes all of those hyperlinks to appear.
We've been able to fix this in our help builds, but that won't be released for a few months.
In the meantime, I would suggest either using a different browser or using the online documentation:
http://www.exelisvis.com/docs/home.html
Cheers,
Chris
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| Re: chrome browser update [message #92442 is a reply to message #92438] |
Thu, 17 December 2015 06:39 |
Helder Marchetto
Messages: 520
Registered: November 2011
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On Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at 2:40:14 AM UTC, Chris Torrence wrote:
> On Monday, December 14, 2015 at 9:36:52 AM UTC-7, Nuno Ferreira wrote:
>> Sorry about this last message. I finally understood why the "olh_anchor_redir.html" text file was appearing - it was related with the association of the ".html" file extension in my computer.
>>
>> Cheers,
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>> Nuno
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> Hi all,
>
> There's no malware - this is a bug that Chrome introduced - apparently they decided to clamp down on something related to namespaces, which causes all of those hyperlinks to appear.
>
> We've been able to fix this in our help builds, but that won't be released for a few months.
>
> In the meantime, I would suggest either using a different browser or using the online documentation:
> http://www.exelisvis.com/docs/home.html
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
Hi Chris,
thanks a lot for clarifying. Let us know when the new release is out.
By the way, it is unfortunately not possible (=allowed) to roll-back to a previous Chrome release.
Cheers,
Helder
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