[Crashby]

Wow... here's a doozy.

I just rebuilt my computer - IE8, XP with service pac 3 and when I go to google.com, I am getting the google graphic as it looked like 5 years ago... (today for example, the correct site has christmas post cards in the Google splash logo. This is happening on firefox as well. Last clue is that google finance charts are not working. Its like Im missing flash, or java, or something like that that is not allowing google and some services to work right.

This is what I get when I go to google.com at this very minute:

Please help - I cant find anything about this anywhere online!!!! Thanks in advance!

 

[paulo_one]

Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ and all the Firefox plugins are available there. Just go down the list and install them. Good luck.

 

[Crashby]

This is actually a IE and Firefox issue, which means it has to be a system issue of some sort

 

[johnbryanpeters]

This is actually a IE and Firefox issue, which means it has to be a system issue of some sort

No, it's more like Google is mucking with their graphics again - they like to fiddle, especially with the logo.

 

[Crashby]

No, it's more like Google is mucking with their graphics again - they like to fiddle, especially with the logo.

Thanks JBP, but wrong... todays google home page (from my laptop) is:

but, I'm still getting the following on my desktop with both IE and firefox.... weirdest thing I have ever seen...

 

[binary visions]

Google changed their page to include some DHTML that shifts the page from mostly blank to all of their menus and apps when you move the mouse. Are you seeing this effect? When you start at google.com does it look mostly blank and change when you move the mouse?

I bet not, in which case that's probably a fallback page for old browsers. Check your security levels - try, for a test, set security settings to low or put google.com inyour trusted sites. Are you preventing the execution of Javascript?

 

[Crashby]

You're on the right track BV... the strange thing is that this is a brand new build. But whatever prohibitive settings that were in my IE were obviously carried over to my install of Firefox... just have to find it.

So far - set security for Internet to lowest (medium). Now going through the 50 options under Internet Zone security settings... I do see scripting of java applets is set to enable... can you think of any obvious ones I might need to change/check?

Thanks for your help!

 

[Crashby]

... everything is enabled under scripting... still no dice.

As I mentioned in my first post... Google finance charts are also not working, so it has to be a scripting issue or something...

 

[Crashby]

Here is an error message I found in google finance:

Invalid character: finance-opt.js - (I would assume the .js is indeed javascript)

Details:

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Timestamp: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:17:43 UTC


Message: Invalid character
Line: 1
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://www.google.com/finance/s/oZ5ll7aNFt4/js/finance-opt.js?hl=en&gl=us


Message: Object expected
Line: 55
Char: 5
Code: 0
URI: http://www.google.com/finance?q=amzn


Message: '_s_Store' is undefined
Line: 58
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://www.google.com/finance?q=amzn


Message: 'google.finance' is null or not an object
Line: 208
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://www.google.com/finance?q=amzn


Message: Object expected
Line: 236
Char: 68
Code: 0
URI: http://www.google.com/finance?q=amzn


Message: 'google.finance' is null or not an object
Line: 245
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://www.google.com/finance?q=amzn


Message: 'google.finance' is null or not an object
Line: 313
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://www.google.com/finance?q=amzn


Message: '_chartConfigObject' is undefined
Line: 471
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://www.google.com/finance?q=amzn


Message: 'google.finance' is null or not an object
Line: 1
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://www.google.com/finance?q=amzn

 

[Crashby]

and wow... when's the last time you saw this in google.com?:

I feel like I went back in time... I dont remember seeing this since about 8 years ago...

 

[IH8Rice]

you sure you didnt go back in time to 2001 and are somehow communicating with us in some tear in the time space continuum?

 

[Crashby]

well... I said screw it and rebuilt the whole system and the problem is gone. I think part of the OS partition was funky...

Merry Ho Ho!

 

[binary visions]

Weird. Looks like your JavaScript interpreter was utterly hosed but I thought JS was handled per-browser. Good that it's fixed though!

 

[jonKranked]

Weird. Looks like your JavaScript interpreter was utterly hosed but I thought JS was handled per-browser. Good that it's fixed though!

Yea from the looks of things the java was borked.