Anybody having problems with downloading attachments here? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Lightages
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 30, 2011, 04:22:40 am
content: I have noticed that all the attachments here show up as "index.php" instead of their real name when trying to download them. I think the forum has a bug. Anybody else?

author: PeterG
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2011, 04:53:40 am
content: No problem here. Some browser plugins can cause this issue.Regards

author: Lightages
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 30, 2011, 05:32:45 am
content: It appears you are right, or it is Firefox at fault. I have no problems using the dreaded iE

author: PeterG
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2011, 05:39:59 am
content: I have tested with IE, firefox and Chrome. No issues.Regards

author: amspire
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2011, 05:40:54 am
content: I think you are right. It is not the URL links that have a problem. Just the attachments.It looks like this is a Firefox 8 problem. Firefox 7 and other browsers are fine.The correct file is downloaded, so you just have to rename index.php to whatever it should be.Richard

author: amspire
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2011, 05:42:53 am
content: Sounds like it is Bug 685060 for the Simple Machines Forum.The developers applied the fix, but didn't include it in the latest release. Hopefully, then next time Dave updates the forum, it will be fine again.Richard

author: baljemmett
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 30, 2011, 12:26:51 pm
content: Quote from: amspire on November 30, 2011, 05:40:54 amHeh, there's a surprise. Firefox 8 can't even load obscure sites like Google for me -- utterly bizarre, and rather unimpressive!

author: PeterG
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2011, 07:54:48 pm
content: Quote from: baljemmett on November 30, 2011, 12:26:51 pmFirefox 8 gave me a reason to try Google Chrome, have not looked back since. Nice how Chrome syncs itself with my Google account too.I have not used IE for years.Regards

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 30, 2011, 11:58:20 pm
content: Quote from: PeterG on November 30, 2011, 07:54:48 pmIE isn't that a tool Microsoft throw in to allow you download a browser to a new operating system install?

author: amspire
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2011, 12:21:11 am
content: Quote from: PeterG on November 30, 2011, 07:54:48 pmFirefox was great - up to about version 3.5.When they went to version 4, the did something to make it a memory hog. Some people who need to use it with a 100 pages open have reported that the memory usage can easily just slowly creep up till it is using over 1.5GBytes. This is not memory required to buffer the pages - you could probably do 100 typical pages in a few hundred Mbytes. The pre V4 versions never did this. I am not sure if they are going to ever try and fix this problem, or have they just given up on memory efficiency? This year, they have been releasing new versions like mad. What is going on at Mozilla?Google Chrome though is a good replacement. Much less likely that one bad page will freeze all pages (Firefox is really bad at that) and totally transparent updates.Richard

author: PeterG
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2011, 02:54:55 am
content: Quote from: Uncle Vernon on November 30, 2011, 11:58:20 pmYep, thats the one...I gave up on Firefox when it started using over 250MB with just a few pages open.Regards

author: benemorius
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2011, 04:09:38 am
content: It's not completely fair to single any one browser out for memory usage these days. The trend is to move toward isolating each tab so they don't crash each other as easily, and that inevitably leads to increased memory usage. All browsers are going to be doing this if their developers have any idea what they're doing, and that definitely includes firefox and chrome.Memory leaking is less excusable of course, and unfortunately chrome (firefox too, last time I used it) has plenty of that to go around. Right now it's hoarding 4 gigs of ram on my desktop machine. Now to be fair, about 800 megs of that is taken up by flash and we all know better than to be surprised there, but the majority of that memory usage is just plain old unintended, buggy behavior on behalf of the browser itself. If I were to restart chromium right now I'm sure the memory usage would be no more than a few hundred megs total once the tabs all loaded back up. That's just pathetic. I know this because I do have to restart it every few weeks due to its instability, and it never reclaims more than a few hundred megs whether I have 53 open tabs or 253 tabs.