PPRuNe the Netscape Slayer
 

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.

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! :eek:

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,

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

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

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 :p

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.

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.

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