TI website crashing on google chrome - Page 1
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author: jmole
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 29, 2014, 08:54:11 pm
content: Anyone else seeing this issue when trying to open datasheets from TI?If so, help out by starring these bug reports:https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=325611https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=357871

author: Monkeh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 29, 2014, 08:56:01 pm
content: I don't use Chrome, but TI's site has done this before. Runaway javascript, Firefox eventually lets you kill it.

author: jmole
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 29, 2014, 09:03:25 pm
content: It works in IE, which is very irritating to me.

author: suicidaleggroll
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 29, 2014, 09:05:59 pm
content: I noticed that a few days ago, locks up the entire browser...annoying as hell.

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 29, 2014, 09:10:48 pm
content: Quote from: jmole on March 29, 2014, 09:03:25 pm

author: Noize
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 29, 2014, 09:41:03 pm
content: On firefox, it freezes then offers you the option to stop script which I do then you can view the pdf.In my experience over the years is TI's website has always operated woefully bad. Considering they run a chip fab it is appalling really.

author: T3sl4co1l
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 29, 2014, 09:59:24 pm
content: YESTHISBoth my XP machines do it. Never did it before, think it started a few weeks ago. Perhaps it's been on and off over the last year for various users??I tried searching and didn't even find those results; extremely few people seem to be having any sort of problem. Which sucks for us engineering minorities who need TI's damned datasheets!It works with scripts off, but unfortunately that turns off scriptseverywhere. Or I'm not using the blacklist correctly, which is likely. Is there NoScript for Chrome?...Tim

author: hans
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 29, 2014, 10:23:43 pm
content: With NoScript it doesn't do anything at all in FirefoxAnd one of the reasons why I use Firefox, because all of the crap that can be found on the web these days. However, because I actually use ti.com, I have whitelisted JS on ti.com, and so it also crashes here.There are plenty of tools that allow you to you add URL's that need to be blocked from loading on webpages, in their most popular form they are called adblock. The page works fine without that script. Looking at the page source, it's utterly crapified, I can't imagine they need so much javascript for downloading a PDF.The page loads fine in Opera, by the way.

author: dannyf
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 29, 2014, 10:36:52 pm
content: Wow!Highly sophisticated techies who can compile his own kernel, write his own tool chains, put together his expertly-written make files and do wonders with his code in a command line environment with 1800's tools get stuck helplessly and hopelessly on a lowly browser.BTW, I am an IDE kind of guy who has no problem whatsoever navigating through the said website with IE, chrome or firefox.Thank you very much.

author: retiredcaps
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 29, 2014, 10:42:38 pm
content: Works fine for me showing both pdfs.Using Chrome 33.01750.152 on Lubuntu 14.04 beta 2.

author: diyaudio
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 29, 2014, 11:13:58 pm
content: Quote from: jmole on March 29, 2014, 08:54:11 pmI see the problem here. its the ti javascript not chrome.They testing the http agent for chrome only using a reqular expression pattern, and waiting 2 seconds. however it fails, go here and it should loadhttp://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/ts3a225e.pdfCode:var ua = navigator.userAgent;;if(/chrome/i.test(ua)) {setTimeout(function(){window.location='http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/ts3a225e.pdf'},2000);}Then the unsure behaviour starts here...Code:/*if (typeof String.prototype.startsWith != 'function') {String.prototype.startsWith = function (str){return this.indexOf(str) == 0;};}*///if(version != null && version != '' && typeof version !== 'undefined' && parseInt(version.substring(0,version.indexOf('.'))) >= 31){//setTimeout(function(){window.location='http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/ts3a225e.pdf'},2000);//}