Did LTC also mess up their server now?

Joerg wrote:

OK, let me be very clear on what I'm trying to say: Others who are using Gecko-based browsers are reporting that the page works just fine for them. This should be a strong indicator that something is different on *your* end.

This sort of thing comes up all the time in the Mozilla groups. What it usually turns out to be is some kind of blocking that *the individual* has set up. NoScript has already been mentioned in this thread. AdBlock can also be a minefield here (e.g. wildcarded strings). A fresh profile will clear any blocking *you* are doing. This often clears "the site's problem".

If you are curious, you can find out exactly what is interfering by adding an extension you normally use to that profile, clearing your cache, and reloading the page. Lather, rinse, repeat. When it starts acting up again, you've found the culprit.

Huzah!

I'm running Firefox & No Script & it worked for me. (Linear is a permitted site on my setup.)

Ed

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The length of the successfully donwloaded file is valid, too. So you should take a look at your router, firewall or internet setup. Sometimes buggy virus scanners can cause such trouble, e.g. sometimes connection to the internet was not possible at all with Norton Antivirus until the next reboot, so I removed it (which needed a special removal tool from their website to really remove the buggy program and all its components) and installed Avira AntiVir.

But in general you are right regarding their website. Designing it with lots of JavaScript, ActiveX-Controls etc. is silly for a technical webpage. They should restrict such multimedia garbage for marketing, only, and even in this case should provide HTML-only alternatives. Something like Digikey would be fine: Just plain HTML. It won't win an art price, but it is very useful.

Same here. Joerg tends toward the paranoid... probably has everything locked out ;-)

...Jim Thompson

I just thought of another thing: Has Joerg munged his User Agent string so that he can see some site or other. If the site is feeding different pageviews depending on sniffing, that could shoot him the IE version--if that is what the string says.

Amen, brother. Use of ActiveX is just stupid. The stats I saw the other week said Windoze market share is down to 88%. Internet Exploder usage on some sites is around 50%.

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Ok, thanks, but why on earth can't they simply post a link that truly ends in lt1270afc.pdf?

I tried again on another PC with freshly installed Firefox per Jeff's suggestion and just got lots of Active-X warnings.

I am not the only one with such problems. Many moons ago Infineon started this strange stuff. It had just happened, I had forgotten about it for a moment, arrived at a client, found a FET in their design that wasn't quite right. Asked for permission and used one of their PCs. Went to Infineon -> gray screen. Engineer: "Oh, that never works, just go to IRF instead because that works". Found a better FET, tested it the next afternoon, they wrote the ECO, done.

Right, Active-X, Flash, Java, none of this has any usefulness in datasheet dissemination. Calculator tools, ok, that's different. But just to look at a datasheet?

Ok, thanks, maybe I have to figure out how to set a permission for them. Just because their web designers are too freaking ... no, I'm not going to say it ;-)

Yeah, right. I remember about 11-12 years ago when the guys at a company laughed at me because my PC would bark at their network. "You are too paranoid about all this security stuff". Viruses were rare back then. A week later it turned out they had been infested, big time ...

I'm using Firefox v3, with NoScript blocking everything except "allow Linear.com".

I'm also running NAV v15.5.0.23

Nary a problem.

Clicking Joerg's link, up pops "Opening lt1270afc.pdf". I could have chosen download.

No problems whatsoever.

Maybe Joerg's pdf handler is defective? Probably using some "almost" conforming freebie ;-)

...Jim Thompson

XP, Opera, no problem.

No. You did say it... you told on yourself... you have no clue about setting up Firefox with NoScript (which is the best add-on for security).

Are you running Firefox or some old Mozilla version?

...Jim Thompson

I hope you tell their sales guys about this. I really don't like websites that are needlessly complicated or expect me to execute anything, but I don't actually buy enough of anything that I could realistically expect them to care.

Chris

I might try it later. But again: Don't you think it's rather stupid if scripting exceptions are necessary for engineer stuff? Just to load a pdf datasheet? I stand by it, script kiddies all on a boat, no return tickets. This world does not need any of them or their fluff unless they sober up and become truly productive.

Firefox.

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So the script kiddies can screw up one site after the other and you must enter them into the exception list one by one? And then someone hijacks a site and you are up the creek because NoScript has no idea that it happened. No thanks.

It's Acrobat Reader. And yes, I think it's one of the worst quality softwares out there. Crashes all the time, no matter what version, what PC or where I am. There should be a single button that does CTRL-ALT-DEL and then kills all programs popping up as "not responding" :-)

Let me add: _not_ reproductive ;-)

Which version? Version 9 works much better for me than previous versions: It starts faster and no crashes so far.

It's 8.1.0. Heck, even when I called up the version number the screen wouldn't back out and froze -> CTRL-ALT-DEL, the usual. Sad. I've found the versions progressively getting worse, meaning more crashes. From 1-2 per day in V5 or so to about a dozen a day now. On most software one can stick to older (=better) versions but not Acrobat because people add new fluff to documents.

PDF is not a great format for datasheets. But what can we do?

You're probably already infected with the worm ;-) I have no such crashes.

...Jim Thompson

It's _always_ Acrobat, and nearly no other programs crash. Same happens at clients. So ...