Firefox upgrade recommended
For those using Firefox to access Protopage – an important bug has been fixed in the latest Firefox 1.5.0.2 release.
This bug, which only affected Firefox users, caused news feeds to rapidly reload and very occasionally resulted in a browser crash.
We are very happy to inform you that Firefox have fixed this bug and we highly recommend that Firefox users now upgrade to version 1.5.0.2.
For more information on this bug, see this link: “window.setTimeout() goes crazy periodically – functions are immediately called repeatedly.”.
April 18th, 2006 at 11:33 am
does this bug also affect other Gecko based browsers such as Flock?
April 18th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
I ve installed the new firefox version but i still can’t see my feeds. My feeds widget show all the time “Retrieving feeds…”. With the old firefox version it worked perfectly before. I tried using internet explorer and it works. What should i do to use protopage with firefox?
thx!
April 18th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
The bug you mentioned did show up now and again I noticed, never had a browser crash just the rapid reload – Since upgrading it works perfectly – Thanx for the info.
April 18th, 2006 at 10:47 pm
From what we’ve been told – Flock will benefit from the latest changes made to the Firefox code – so you should get the upgrade soon too.
Martin – please drop us a note with the name of your Protopage so we can take a look.
Protopage will still work very well with any version of Firefox – we’re recommending this upgrade because although a browser crash previously only happened very occasionally, it’s quite annoying when it does happen.
April 18th, 2006 at 11:35 pm
Hi guys,
Thx for the quick response. I’ve checked it again and still does’t work. My protopage’s name is: “chirinocm” (http://www.protopage.com/chirinocm). My firefox version is 1.502, i’ve tried it with another computer (with the same version) and it didn t work either.
cheers!
April 19th, 2006 at 2:31 am
Martin – one of your feeds (Web ink) was providing an invalid data stream. We have removed this from your page and you should find that everything now works properly. We’ll look into a way of filtering this feed so that it does not cause problems in the future.
April 19th, 2006 at 9:07 am
Many thanks guys! It all works perfectly now. That’s excellent service.
cheers!
April 20th, 2006 at 1:20 am
I’d like to be able to access Protopage on my web browsing Windows Mobile 5 powered PDA phone. The abilty to display large fonts would come in handy for PDAs. I wish to use protopage as a home page for my links on my PDA
JUlian Smith (mr)
April 23rd, 2006 at 1:00 pm
firefox 1.5.0.2 also contains numerous security fixes, so upgrade and be good. long live IE!
April 24th, 2006 at 5:54 am
Protopage FTW!
April 27th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
Hi Alex,
There IS no way to directly link into an additional page. The only way is to open at the first page, and then to click the required page number in the lower right corner. Of course, the required page must be public…
Maybe, though, you could go to the contact page and REQUEST that the Team add some way to address additional pages directly.
As to your second question: perhaps Bloglines is using some javascript code to break out of a containers/frames. If so, it’s not Protopage’s fault, and there’s nothing you can do… If I’m wrong about this, then I don’t know what’s going on.
April 27th, 2006 at 8:39 pm
Thanks FreeBee, that is exactly the current situation. We’ll bring in direct page linking in version 3.
May 13th, 2006 at 5:22 pm
I’ve created a forum for all protopage users to discuss our favorite (or one of our favorite) start pages. Check it out and tell your friends. You can also keep track of the forum right in your protopage. It’s got an RSS feed.
http://protopage.phpbbnow.com/
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:13 pm
[quote]NikanjOoloi Says:
May 13th, 2006 at 5:22 pm
I’ve created a forum for all protopage users to discuss our favorite (or one of our favorite) start pages. Check it out and tell your friends. You can also keep track of the forum right in your protopage. It’s got an RSS feed.
http://protopage.phpbbnow.com/
[/quote]
Great idea Nik, it might be a good idea to put this in the other updates I only came across it by accident, I don’t have Firefox but read it anyway.
June 1st, 2006 at 8:20 pm
i think in version 3 of protopage you should add a “lock All pages” button , to the lock panel,so people with a lot of pages on there site can lock them all quickly . thx!
June 2nd, 2006 at 6:57 pm
I think on the 3rd version you should be able to add sound. My friend Charles and I were brainstorming good ideas.
Thx,
Dave and Charles
June 10th, 2006 at 7:14 pm
Yay! I was having this problem quite often but I never reported it.
Cant wait for v3 (-: v2 is da bomb tho :P
~Andrew
June 17th, 2006 at 2:17 pm
which problem , andrew?
June 20th, 2006 at 9:25 am
Are you still there? It\’s been a looooooooooooooooooooong while since we haven\’t heard frome the protopage team… What\’s going on?
June 23rd, 2006 at 11:27 am
There have not been any new blogs from Protopage recently, is the company still going?
June 29th, 2006 at 10:50 pm
I just signed up, and have met with initial frustration using FF 1.5.0.4
I can’t delete panels and saving changes works sometimes, and others, not. i can think of many uses for protopage, but need it to work consistently, of course, and look forward to fixing whatever is failing to work for me. Thanks for helpful ideas here.
June 30th, 2006 at 9:50 am
Fred,
Try uninstalling some of our Firefox plugins if you have any – they have been known to cause javascript problems in the FF browser. We also have a slight bug which means that if you resize a news feed window the dimensions might not be saved – this will be fixed in v3. Hope this helps.
July 7th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
Does anyone know how to delete a page? I can add them and lock/unlock them, but I don’t see how to delete them.
July 16th, 2006 at 9:11 pm
I’ve been away from home for 4 month and set this up on my laptop while in Dallas TX.
Now I’m back home using a different ISP and for some strange reason, I can’t access my page on my desktop using IE.
I can see the 1st public page but can’t access any of the other pages and can’t sign in.
It works fine if I open it in Firefox. It works fine on the laptop and another desktop using IE and/or Firefox.
Any clues/help, would be greatly appreciated.
July 24th, 2006 at 9:18 pm
i think in version 3 of protopage you should add a “lock All pages” button , to the lock panel,so people with a lot of pages on there site can lock them all quickly . thx!
December 3rd, 2006 at 4:18 am
Is their anyway I can retrieved any of my postings from my old web page under v2?
April 21st, 2008 at 4:14 am
protopage is not working in firefox for me right now 2.0.0.14.
works fine in IE
anyone know what is up?
February 16th, 2011 at 2:27 am
For this matter, once I discussed with one of my friends, not only about the content you talked about, but also to how to improve and develop, but no results. So I am deeply moved by what you said today.
September 19th, 2012 at 4:49 am
Please keep thworing these posts up they help tons.