| Re: chrome browser update [message #92428 is a reply to message #92426] |
Mon, 14 December 2015 02:48   |
greg michael
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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
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>> 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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> 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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