PPRuNe the Netscape Slayer

[Evo7]

PPRuNe seems to have recently started confusing netscape so much that I have to kill it and restart to get back online. Until now it has taken a half hour or so to collapse, but this morning I was unable to access the bulletin boards at all before netscape became comatose. No other websites cause problems, and I can access PPRuNe fine using konqueror on my laptop (which is why I'm here now...)

I remember we had some problems with a certain advert a little while ago, but I'm not sure if that's the problem now. Anyone else got problems? Any ideas?

FWIW, Java is turned ON, javascript OFF at the moment.

[Capt PPRuNe]

Try turning javascript on. I think the BB software uses some javascript so that may be the cause of your problems.

Here is a list of the different browsers, operating systems and screen resolutions of some PPRuNe users:

BROWSERS
MSIE 5.x 74.3% [==========================> 169155
MSIE 4.x 12.3% [====> 27957
Netscape 4.x 6.4% [==> 14611
Unknown 5.1% [=> 11702
MSIE 6.x 1.3% [> 2942
Netscape 5.x 0.3% [> 725
Netscape 3.x 0.2% [> 405
Opera 0.0% [> 87
MSIE 3.x 0.0% [> 41
Web Spider 0.0% [> 9
MSIE 2.x 0.0% [> 7
Other Netscape 0.0% [> 2

PLATFORMS
Windows 98 60.2% [============================> 137053
Windows NT 18.6% [========> 42394
Windows 95 13.9% [======> 31729
Unknown 5.1% [==> 11668
Macintosh 1.5% [> 3424
Linux 0.3% [> 594
Other Windows 0.2% [> 374
Solaris/SunOS 0.1% [> 252
OS/2 0.0% [> 50
Other UNIX 0.0% [> 43
AIX 0.0% [> 25
*BSD 0.0% [> 22
IRIX 0.0% [> 12
Amiga 0.0% [> 3

SCREEN RESOLUTION
800x600 44.0% [===============================> 100117
1024x768 33.5% [=======================> 76365
Unreported 11.6% [========> 26455
640x480 3.3% [==> 7488
1280x1024 2.6% [=> 5969
1152x864 2.2% [=> 4991
800x553 0.3% [> 764
1600x1200 0.2% [> 557
960x720 0.2% [> 410
1024x721 0.2% [> 364

COLOR DEPTH
65536 (16 bit) 50.7% [======================> 115430
32 bit 21.5% [=========> 48973
Unreported 11.6% [=====> 26473
16 million (24 bit) 10.3% [====> 23461
256 (8 bit) 5.7% [==> 12886
1 bit 0.1% [> 254
4 bit 0.1% [> 164
15 bit 0.0% [> 2

JAVASCRIPT VERSION
1.2 81.9% [=========================> 186357
Disabled by user 6.4% [=> 14629
1.3 6.4% [=> 14594
Unsupported 5.2% [=> 11800
1.1 0.1% [> 215
1.0 0.0% [> 48

Gives you some idea of the variations!

[touch&go]

Fascinating bit of info Danny, didn’t realise that you had access to the info on what operating system we use.

Just one question, why is Pprune so slow now, I know you updated the software, is the problem and how can we help to speed up the site?

Keep up the great work,

[Evo7]

Cheers, Danny. I'm at home at the moment, but I'll give it a go once I'm back at work.

Solaris/SunOS 0.1% [> 252

Wow, you mean I'm not the only one? Or did I just access PPRuNe 252 times from work :o

[SLB]

Gee, you would think that Java would work best on Solaris/SunOS (as Java is a Sun product, isn't it?) Surprised they would even let their OS run without Java

[Evo7]

Unfortunately, Netscape isn't a Sun product and the browser that comes with Solaris is so laughable that I don't use it.

It all seems to have sorted itself out, anyway. Never did have to turn javascript on. Strange - most probably something at this end causing grief.

[Slasher]

Evo I mentioned the same Nutcrape problem once before. The main culprit was that stupid Yell.com banner ad which even sidetracked my AdSubtract program. That ad caused a lot of problems.
Anyway the whole thing was solved once I downloaded the Opera browser. I use it exclusivley for PPRuNe and have no complaints. Might pay to give it a try. Its free.

[olderairhead]

I also dumped escape and loaded Opera. Best thing I ever did. Top marks.