Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2017 August 4

= August 4 =

Javascript overriding browser key config
I've rebound ctrl-A and ctrl-D to previous tab and next tab respectively in Firefox. This is working well for me for 99% of the sites out there. Except for Outlook Mail, where ctrl-D is delete mail. Somehow Outlook Mail's JS stuff is overriding my browser's key configs. Is there anything I can do to prevent this overriding from happening? Mũeller (talk) 11:13, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
 * You could probably use a Greasemonkey script to disable keyboard shortcuts (I found one example here but I haven't tried it myself to see if it works). Another option would be to disable keyboard shortcuts in Outlook if that's the only site that's giving you problems. I found one example of how to do this in the web client, but it's from 2012 so the option may have moved around a bit. Random character sequence (talk) 16:34, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

Browsing difficulties
I run two desktop machines, on Vista/7, using Ethernet. I use various browsers, mainly Chrome and Firefox, but also Opera, Cometbird, Palemoon and the Microsoft one.

For some time (wweks?) I have been having serious trouble with web browsing on any browser and it has come to a head over the last week or so. I have difficulty loading many pages, generally either the whole page or parts do not come across, according to the browsers' built in tools.

DNS seems to be working fine, other Internet programs also run fine, including FemtoBot which downloads many hundreds of WP pages using the API. I have had some buffering issues with YouTube.

On wireless devices - laptops (Win 7/10) and phones (Android), there seems to be little difficulty.

Any ideas?

(Example, I added this section fine, but the attempt to make a minor edit failed to save)

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:35, 4 August 2017 (UTC).


 * You could check the IP number on both machines to see if is the same on both. If it's a duplicate, things will be much better after you unplug one machine. You could go to Resource Monitor and check network use, or memory use. Is it 100% of your WAN link speed? Perhaps there is a high error rate on your network.  You can use ping with various options to test the quality. (different sizes and repeats) Ping your router or an up-stream router to see if the connection is losing data or is extremely slow. Good quality should be able to do 10000 ping responses without loss. A home connection perhaps 1000 good responses, or a mobile 100. The network connection might be fixed by plugging in an Ethernet cable again.  Or perhaps Microsoft has overloaded it again with software updates. If it is the later there are ways to throttle network use for that purpose. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 06:17, 5 August 2017 (UTC)


 * I've also frequently had a problem with a router just stopping forwarding packets. Mine are always cured by turning the router off and on again.  Perhaps go through any network devices you may have and power cycle them? Phil Holmes (talk) 09:06, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the suggestions. I've tried some before and some now, seems a bit better after router restart.  I wil re-build my n/w after WikiMania I think.
 * All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:31, 5 August 2017 (UTC).