8.10 freezing a lot more recently.

[Matt Harrison]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Dirk Freitag <unreal.linux at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> This is true.  I am really hoping that I am not having hardware issues
> already with this machine.  Maybe I should have noted, that it only
> freezes and has problems when my girlfriend is using it for school
> trying to take online tests and classes through IEs4linux.  She has to
> use IEs4linux because the site that she has to use to take her online
> courses do not like Firefox in Linux.  She uses Firefox on her windows
> laptop at her house for these sites without any problems.  But if you
> try to access the sites through Firefox in Linux, you get an error
> saying that the site only works under IE or Netscape.
>
> So I installed IEs4Linux to see if that would work, and it did, except
> when she went to take a test, the computer froze.  And it keeps freezing
> (at different points I might add) when she tries to take a test on the
> site.  I apologize that I was not more specific with my first email, but
> maybe this is the issue?
>
>
> --
> Dirk Freitag
> Linux Registered User Number 487244          [http://counter.li.org/]
>
>
I think you may be on the right track.  I have used IE installed from
Crossover Office and certain sites just lock the system up.  Never really
took the time to investigate it because I just wrote it off as being a
problem with running a Windows application on Linux.  I'm sure everyone else
can give you more technical information than I can, but it's probably some
Active X related problem or some proprietary MS protocal that doesn't work
when emulating the Windows enviornment in Linux.

-Matt
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