Well, the problem returned, then fixed itself again... After killing the PE window and doing something else for a while, the problem returned when I relaunched the program. I decided to reboot (always seems to make Windows boxes happier :) and shut down all the other apps that were running (all normal stuff -- Word, Excel, Outlook). But on a lark, I decided to try PE one more time before actually shutting down. Voila, like magic it worked.... Bizarre.... -----Original Message----- From: Nathan (Nat) Goodman Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 10:22 AM To: molvis-list at bioinformatics.org Subject: RE: Problem with Protein Explorer / Wind XP Sp1 / Firefox 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/ > > /* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Protein > Explorer - 3D Visualization: http://proteinexplorer.org > Workshops: http://www.umass.edu/molvis/workshop > Biochem Structure Tutorials http://MolviZ.org World Index of Molecular > Visualization Resources: http://molvisindex.org ConSurf - Find > Conserved Patches in Proteins: > http://consurf.tau.ac.il Atlas of Macromolecules: > http://molvis.sdsc.edu/atlas/atlas.htm > PDB Lite Macromolecule Finder: http://pdblite.org Molecular > Visualization EMail List (molvis-list): > http://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/molvis-list > > Eric Martz, Professor Emeritus, Dept Microbiology U Mass, Amherst MA > US 413-545-2325/FAX 413-545-2532 > http://www.umass.edu/molvis/martz > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - */ >