Re: Some Hyperlinks Won't Work Right

From: Ed Hurst (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 02/09/04 

Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 19:44:21 -0600

carney1979 wrote:
> I also posted this on SuSEForums.
>
> I'm running SuSE 9 and I've noticed that of the browsers shipped with
> SuSE, all except Opera exhibit the following behavior:
>
> If I go to certain webpages, such as Mozilla.org, and click on the
> link to download the installer for the Linux version of their latest
> browser, nothing happens until the attempt times out. No download
> dialog, nothing. At first I thought it was their web site.
>
> Then I had to boot into Windoze (there for my wife, really!). Just for
> grins I went to Mozilla.org and clicked on the link. Instant download
> dialog. I thought "Great! It's fixed!".
>
> Immediately rebooted Linux and tried again. Same results as above. It
> timed out.
>
> I went to another webpage where I have to login. At that page I click
> on a hyperlink and a login dialog box appears on top of the page. It
> never came up and I got the same time out as before.
>
> So, I tried downloading the Mozilla installer for Linux with Windoze,
> then rebooted into Linux and copied it to my home folder. (Now,
> that's a sad situation!) I installed the latest-greatest Mozilla and
> I STILL have the same problem.
>
> By chance I tried Opera. Opera worked perfectly in all situations.
>
> Now I don't have any problem with Opera, but I greatly prefer
> Konqueror.
>
> How can I set this right?
>
> David

If this were happening to me, I'd be looking that the mouse and protocol
in the X server config (/etc/X11/XF86Config for most cases). For me, the
mouse wheel is a bit sloppy and occasionally does nothing when I click
on a link because the mouse wheel was still "engaged" in some way. 

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Ed Hurst
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