Got two computers, an old Gateway still running XP and Chrome and a new HP running W10 and Chrome and so far have had no problems with trains.com. Just had to replace two Samsung S4's when they literally died.
Ads, video's...slow long running scripts. I have no clue what you people are talking about, but then again, W10 with Chrome and AdBlocker Plus might have something to do with it...and any site that insists I White List or turn off my ad blocker becomes persona non grata in my book...I will refuse to visit a site like that again...ever.
"Long running script" is the politically correct way of saying that the advertisements, auto-load videos, and other junk has to load and appear before you can do anything. It really isn't a problem for me on the Trains website, but places like Facebook where a video of some chicken pecking at the groud has to play completely thru before you can skip it, any on-line news article from Reuters to CNN that are loaded with ads, or any website that has pop-up ads or pop-up websites is extremely irritating to me. Sometimes the ads take so long to load that I close the article entirely because it's not worth the wait.
The REALLY irritating ones are (1) read the headline and one line of the article on your news feed, then (2) if you want to read more click here, which gives you the same headline and 1st sentence, plus the 2nd sentence, then (3) if you REALLY want to read the article, click here. Each time you click you have to wait for at least a dozen ads to load, only to find out it's just a teaser to get you to click again for more ads. So in the end you have 3 tabs open for one news article and dozens of ads trying to get you to buy things that you don't want and don't need. I'm glad Trains does not subscribe to this crap.
Home Green Gardens ads seem to be a problem, had a few crop up on my last session and had to force quit FireFox from the activity monitor (kill -9 from a terminal would work as well) when the beach ball sarted showing up and activity monitor was showing 2+GB!!! of Real memory usage.
Semper VaporoThe "poor coding" is proabably NOT someone at Kalmbach... it is probably at some advertisers site that is contracting with Kalmbach to fetch advertising content from their site to appear on pages called from Kalmbach's site.
It is correct that the malformed code is advertisers and not Kalmbach. The problem I have with the Kalmbach programmers is that they do not code any safeguards against malformed code (or pop-up scams, or data harvesting), and the problem I have with Kalmbach marketing is that they continue to stream code from advertisers that demonstrably repeat 'conveniently' malformed or hackable code through the interfaces Kalmbach provides them.
OvermodNow I understand and sympathize with the basic idea expressed by Mr. Otte of MR that tech resources have to be applied to revenue-generating ideas before they go to 'free' forums.
Free forums don't generate any revenue?
The "poor coding" is proabably NOT someone at Kalmbach... it is probably at some advertisers site that is contracting with Kalmbach to fetch advertising content from their site to appear on pages called from Kalmbach's site. All Kalmbach has in their control is the URL that is inserted into the Kalmbach code that references the advertiser's site. It is the advertiser's site that determines what advertisment appears on your screen and how it does it.
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
I might add, for the sake of any tech people who might be in a position to fix this, that one of the most irritating issues with the deflicted mobile codebase is related to screen resizing (at least on iPhones from 4s to 7).
The most immediate illustration of the problem is that either in landscape or portrait rotation, presence of either a long clickable URL or a signature of any particular size expands the effective right-hand margin of the window containing the post -- however, the viewport on the device does not expand and the text in the expanded window does not 'wrap'. If we could resize the window with the usual haptics, this would merely be irritating, but all that this does on iPhones is to resize the cut-off section ... the point of which I have yet to figure out.
Now the 'normal' way I get around this is to hit 'reply', which neatly puts all the text in properly-wrapped form. Here is where the second programming disaster shows up: the control buttons do not follow the visible frame, but are right-justified in the expanded page, which for any particular 'extension' puts the reply button completely outside the accessible part of the page (!!!) without the ability to pan or scan to access even the barest edge of it to click.
Now I understand and sympathize with the basic idea expressed by Mr. Otte of MR that tech resources have to be applied to revenue-generating ideas before they go to 'free' forums. But I have now suffered through months and months of malformed ad code 'sneaking' through inadvertent oversight or naive API implementation by someone coding for Kalmbach, and surely even the dullest of Bangalore contract programmers will eventually figure out how to patch this stuff.
I am not having the Script problem - to my knowledge, however -
When the RAV 4 video commercial appears on the right hand side of the screen - it SNAPS the screen for it to be seen - no matter if one wants to read data that is above or below the ad position on the screen. Disturbing!
This is happening on the computer version of Chrome.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
I've been having the long running script problem with this forum and the Trains News Wire site for some time now.
Every one check this out for removing a bad anit=viris
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42202191
Works just fine, never had any problems at all, and I'm way up here in the sub polar region of Northern Saskatchewan. Use iPad, latest version of OS whatever, Safari. Internet comes from my cable company, a province wide company. 7yr old iPad. Battery ain't what it used to be but then neither am I. Run it on power at home.
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For a time yesterday afternoon, the site worked perfectly for me, but then the problem returned with slow loadings, long running script error, and locking the computer. I have Windows 7 in the computer exeriencing the problem.
I thought this began back maybe 5-6 weeks ago when somebody posted a question asking if the site had been hacked. At that time, I had noticed that it sometimes took a couple minutes to open the site, and continued loading times were very slow. Then there was tallk of the site being worked on and people were talking about how ads were popping up differently. I thought that the site had been intentionally revised in a way that simply would not work with Win 7 and IE, or maybe it was a problem with interacting with just my computer. Nobody else was mentioning a problem.
About two weeks ago, the problem suddenly cleared and everything ran perfectly for about 3-4 days, but then the problem returned.
Problem seemed to come back big time tonight, saw memory usage go up to 3.6GB a few minutes ago, with three tabs. This used up all the free space on an 8GB computer - my first computer max'ed out at 256KB.
FWIW, sees to be better on this go around, but only have one tab open. OTOH Firefox has been showing the "page still laoding circle the whole time.
- Erik
It has been working for me but always remember, failure is not an option, it comes bundled with Windows.
Rich
If you ever fall over in public, pick yourself up and say “sorry it’s been a while since I inhabited a body.” And just walk away.
tree68I'm now referring to it as the "Windows 10 virus." Hearing too many stories about problems that didn't start until people were hit with W10, sometimes against their will.
I still miss XP.
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blue streak 1 This poster was able to finally find a way to get windows 10 to remove and restore and after 2-1/2 hours working is now doing fine though had to redo all my passwords.
This poster was able to finally find a way to get windows 10 to remove and restore and after 2-1/2 hours working is now doing fine though had to redo all my passwords.
I'm now referring to it as the "Windows 10 virus." Hearing too many stories about problems that didn't start until people were hit with W10, sometimes against their will.
Angela Pusztai-Pasternak, Production Editor, Trains Magazine
It's working fine now.
Angela,
The website seems to be better behaved today than yesterday, instead of seeing Firefox suck up 1+GB of memory viewig the website, it's now down to 700MB (still high, but better). Memory seems to be being released now, where yesterday I had to force quit Firefox to clear the memory.
FWIW, running FF 48.0.2 on an almost 9 year old MacBook Pro.
Mine is running justa s smooth as ever this morning.
Euclid With Windows 7 and IE, all I can do is open the forum. After that, any operation will cause it to freeze, but it will unfreeze in about a minute or so. Then with a slight scrolling of clicking to open something, it will freeze again for minute or so. Basically, it is unusable. I too get a lot of long running script messages. Chrome works fine, but maybe a little bit slow at times. Nothing locks up with Chrome. This has been my experience starting suddenly about a month ago.
With Windows 7 and IE, all I can do is open the forum. After that, any operation will cause it to freeze, but it will unfreeze in about a minute or so. Then with a slight scrolling of clicking to open something, it will freeze again for minute or so. Basically, it is unusable. I too get a lot of long running script messages. Chrome works fine, but maybe a little bit slow at times. Nothing locks up with Chrome. This has been my experience starting suddenly about a month ago.
Yes, Euclid. The scripts are a problem. Again, I apolgize for your inconvenience.
Me 2. windows 10.1 IE 11
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