I've seen this sort of activity when trying to browse a page that for some reason absolutely requires IE (if not also IE7). It may have something to do with IE specific Active X applets. Well designed webware should provide a work around for other browsers, but this isn't always the case. Lazy web programmers who only live in the world of IE frequently don't give a rat about the world outside their own. When accessing this sort of page outside of IE, your browser may just lock up. Also, this sort of BS isn't limited to internet tablet browsers -- I've also encountered it on my XP computers using Firefox. One of the recent examples of this feature (where there was a workaround) was the Australian Open (tennis) which had IBM hosting of the event. The "Scores" page of current games would not work properly with Firefox on my tablet or XP computer running Firefox -- but at least came up with a message to click for the 'html' version of the page. Or you open IE, if you're in an environment where that is an option and things should work as designed. I didn't try it during the AO, but during the US Open (tennis), which had a similar IBM hosted site, the n800 (2007 OS) browser locked up when you tried to play the internet radio feed of the event's top tennis match. As best as I could tell, it required some sort of IE active X applet to run the radio feed. You'd wait and wait and wait and nothing would happen. Locked up... Always, drfredc Amichai Rotman wrote: > Hey there, > > I am having a strange problem: when I fire up the browser to open a > link (either from a bookmark or a new page) it opens the browser > window, shows the address for the page in the address field, but > nothing else happens. It doesn't load the page. If I tap the bookmarks > or home buttons at the bottom, the window closes... > > I hope I don't have to re-flash the device, I just did it not so long > ago... > > Please help! > > -- > .:====================================================:. > > Amichai Rotman > > UIN#: 6401746 > Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/] > Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > PLEASE READ: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > .:====================================================:. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.16/1251 - Release Date: 1/30/2008 9:29 AM >
