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On 12-June-2015 9:26 AM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> wrote:
>> On 10-June-2015 1:14 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>> What happens with other than browsers with say word
>>> documents that have some graphics embedded  or with
>>> whatever you use that displays jpgs etc.
>> no problems. It's just the browsers. does chrome use silverlight?
> Found with a quick search for "Silverlight" on the Chrome Wikipedia
> page:
>
> "On April 14, 2015, Google released Chrome v42, disabling the NPAPI
> by default. This makes plugins that do not have a PPAPI plugin
> counterpart incompatible with Chrome, such as Java, Silverlight and
> Unity. However, NPAPI support can be enabled through the
> chrome://flags menu, until the release of version 45 in September
> 2015, which will have NPAPI support removed entirely."
>
> So if you've got the latest version and didn't tell it to do
> otherwise, it's supposed to be ignoring Silverlight.
>
> Surely it's easy to disable Silverlight in FireFox? Then again,
> I don't think I've ever installed it, and it is M$ rubbish...

It's required for netflix (and others applications)

>
> Have you tried saving web pages to file and checking if the images
> get saved (either using a browser or manually looking at files)?

no, but I will now

>
> Perhaps the browsers can't get to the stuff they have in their
> local cache? Strange that it would happen in both browsers using
> different caches though. Might still be worth turning the cache
> off to see what happens.

will try that too

>
> I don't know how it would be a faulty video card - images on web
> pages don't use any different video mode to everything else on
> the screen. Maybe video driver at a very big, unlikely, stretch.
> Check the browser related software first.

thanks for this. I'll post the result of those trials.

>
>>>>>> I'm thinking maybe Silverlight is the problem as that is common to
>>>>>> both browsers, and the issue only started after I was using
>>>>>> netflix, which requires Silverlight.
>>>>> If you did buy that BoostSpeed 7 or it came with the Dell, its possible
>>>>> that it does pop up because of some problem with Silverlight.
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> It happens in both IE and FF so I guess it must be system
>>>>>>>>>> related, not browser settings. Or faulty video card maybe? I
>>>>>>>>>> have checked every setting I can find, but don't seem to see
>>>>>>>>>> anything amiss. I don't recall it being like this before.
>>>>>>>>>> it's an old Dell PC running winXP btw. thanks


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Pete
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Screen display problem felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-06-08 17:02 +1000
  Re: Screen display problem "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-06-08 17:27 +1000
    Re: Screen display problem "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-06-09 06:28 +1000
      Re: Screen display problem felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-06-09 09:37 +1000
        Re: Screen display problem "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-06-09 14:41 +1000
          Re: Screen display problem felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-06-10 10:36 +1000
            Re: Screen display problem "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-06-10 13:14 +1000
              Re: Screen display problem "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-06-11 19:49 +1000
                Re: Screen display problem "SG1" <lost@the.races.com> - 2015-06-11 20:00 +1000
                Re: Screen display problem felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-06-11 20:46 +1000
                Re: Screen display problem "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-06-11 21:30 +1000
                Re: Screen display problem felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-06-11 21:45 +1000
                Re: Screen display problem "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-06-12 04:21 +1000
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                Re: Screen display problem "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-06-12 12:36 +1000
                Re: Screen display problem felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> - 2015-06-12 14:08 +1000
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                Re: Screen display problem Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-06-14 18:01 +0000
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                Re: Screen display problem "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-06-13 08:45 +1000
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