Online connection turtle-slow
Preston Kutzner
shizzlecash at gmail.com
Sun Jan 25 04:22:07 UTC 2009
On Jan 24, 2009, at 9:37 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 01/24/2009 11:33 AM, Preston Kutzner wrote:
>> On Jan 24, 2009, at 9:52 AM, Jim Kvarnberg wrote:
>>
>>> When I clicked "online banking" in my bank website or some other
>>> places
>>> that require my login ID and password before I could open them, it
>>> took
>>> 'forever' to open them. I got tired of staring at a mouse point
>>> icon
>>> wheel going round and round for a long time. I fed up and went
>>> across a
>>> room to my laptop computer with wireless connection (its OS is
>>> Windows
>>> XP) to open the connection to the same places ... bingo they
>>> opened up
>>> real fast, beating the Ubuntu 8.10 amd64 operated computer. What
>>> was
>>> wrong? Any suggestion for solving the problem? It will be
>>> appreciated. Thank you. Jim
>>> PS I want to stick to using the Ubuntu system.
>>
>> There are several things that might be causing the problem. First, I
>> assume you were using Firefox on the Ubuntu machine, but you didn't
>> mention which web browser you used on the Windows machine. It is
>> possible that your bank's website only works in IE. It's also
>> possible that the site's scripting might not be supported by Ubuntu's
>> default javascript installation (which, incidentally, isn't Sun's
>> java). You might try installing the sun-java6-jre package in Ubuntu
>> and trying again. If your bank's site only supports IE, you can try
>> installing the ies4linux package (which you'll have to hunt down on
>> the "Internets").
>
> Java has nothing to do with javascript:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript
Yeah, my bad about the Javascript. Keep forgetting that fact. I
still stand by my browser portion.
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