Re: (amd64) Strange browser problem

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Ian D. Leroux wrote:

> > > Given how much firefox and seamonkey have in common, I'm not sure
> > > how much that proves.
> >
> > I'm going to see if opera works...

Oh, darn, opera is a pre-built rpm - not from source.  Scratch that.

But in response to another suggestion, I installed links-gui package. 
For the www.websudoku.com site, it was able to display the entire 
game-board (although not sufficiently well to be able to play.)  But it 
failed to establish a https session to my D-link WiFi router.

> If it doesn't, here's another thought: the problem could be at the
> networking/firewall level.  I'm no web programmer, but as I understand
> it one common usage pattern with javascript nowadays is to keep a
> connection open to the server and download data asynchronously (so that
> you can update page content without reloading the whole page).  If
> something was closing or blocking that background connection I guess
> you might see symptoms such as you describe, and it would be
> independent of browser.

Two thinks lead me to discount the possibility of a network connectivity 
problem.  First is that the D-link WiFi router is directly attached, and 
it is failing.  Second is that the Google search page _does_ display 
completion hints as I type.  In fact, Google's results page is quite 
useable.

On the other hand, I don't even get "echo" when I start typing into the 
Yahoo search box.

> Do the completion suggestions show up when you type into the
> search box on the Google main page?  Since they appear without page
> loading and can't possibly all be downloaded at once, those must be
> implemented using such a background connection.

See above.



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