[Molvis-list] RE: Problem with Protein Explorer / Wind XP Sp1 / Firefox

[Nathan (Nat) Goodman]

The problem seems to have fixed itself (or someone on the PR team fixed it
overnight).  I launched PR from the website just now and the Chime
performance test completed promptly.  One difference between today and
yesterday is that yesterday I launched an empty PE while today I lauched it
on my favorite structure (1K86). 

Thanks,
Nat

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Martz [mailto:emartz at microbio.umass.edu] 
> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 10:05 AM
> To: natg at shore.net
> Cc: molvis-list at bioinformatics.org
> Subject: Re: Problem with Protein Explorer / Wind XP Sp1 / Firefox
> 
> Dear Nat:
> 
> FireFox starts PE 2.7 OK in Win98 (speed test works). I don't 
> have an XP system at hand where I can test it. The speed test 
> should never take more than 1 minute even on a slow computer.
> 
> I'm leaving for Spain today.
> 
> Here's a workaround for a downloaded copy of PE 2.7 In the 
> file cmd2way2.htm in the folder shared:
> There are two if(...) statments with the word "bypass" in the 
> comments.
> Change these to act like they do for IE now (isIE).
> So the first should become
> if (false) // will never do the conditional and the second if 
> (true) will always do it.
> 
> This should bypass the Chime speed test for ALL browsers.
> Then try FireFox on your downloaded copy.
> 
> If others have similar problems, I may do this in the public 
> version as the Chime speed test has been a constant 
> maintenance problem, is very complicated, and isn't worth stalling PE!
> 
> -Eric
> 
> At 1/28/2005, you wrote:
> >Dear Eric
> >
> >I first want to thank you for creating Protein Explorer and so 
> >generously making it available to the world via the web.
> >
> >I have it working fine with IE, but want to use it with 
> Firefox so that 
> >Features of the Molecule will work.  (As an aside, I followed the 
> >instructions for creating header htm files for IE, but this didn't 
> >help.)
> >
> >In Firefox, the program gets stuck in the Chime performance 
> test.  It 
> >flashes the little window and puts X's in the progress box, 
> but doesn't 
> >seem to finish.  I let it run for ~20 mins.
> >
> >Here's my configuration
> >
> >Windows XP Pro SP1
> >Firefox 1.0
> >Chime 2.6 SP6
> >
> >I can't really tell whether all MIME types are enabled for Chime, 
> >because the information is not displayed by program.  It 
> looks like CUB. GAU, MOL.
> >MOP, RXN, SCR, SPT, TGF, XYZ types are being handled, but it doen't 
> >actually say what program is registered for each
> >
> >Succeeds on all tests:
> >   Freestanding PDB
> >   Freestanding SPT
> >   Embedded PDB
> >
> >FrontDoor http://molvis.sdsc.edu/protexpl/frntdoor.htm
> >
> >Thanks very much,
> >Nat Goodman
> >-------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------
> >Nathan (Nat) Goodman
> >Senior Research Scientist
> >Institute for Systems Biology
> >1441 North 34th Street
> >Seattle, WA 98103-8904
> >206-331-0077
> >206-363-0431 (fax)
> >natg at shore.net
> >http://home.comcast.net/~natgoodman/
> 
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