| Re: chrome browser update [message #92424 is a reply to message #92423] |
Mon, 14 December 2015 01:42   |
Helder Marchetto
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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:
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>> 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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