On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i apologize profusely for what is more a firefox question than a > fedora question, but i'm stumped here. on my current (up to date) > 32-bit f8 system on my gateway laptop, i went here: > > http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html > > to download google earth, got the license text, pressed "Agree and > Download" and ... nothing. no dialog box about Save or Open, no > switching URL, no response at all. press, press, press ... nothing, > nothing, nothing. > > i tried the same thing on another laptop running 64-bit f8, and > everything worked fine -- when i selected "Agree and Download", > firefox switched to the page > > http://earth.google.com/tour/thanks-linux4.html > > and asked where i wanted the download, etc. downloaded, installed, > ran ... all good. > > i can only imagine that there's some config setting in that first > firefox that's mucking things up but, for the life of me, i don't see > what it is. i've compared the two FF configs side by side, popup > windows appear to be allowed, cookies from google allowed, etc, etc. > > help? i figure that, if i answer three questions on this ML, i get > to ask a really dumb one in exchange. duh. never mind. brought up the firefox error console, and noticed that "urchinTracker" was not being found, which was because i had somehow added google-analytics urchin.js to my adblock list. carry on. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
