Editing MycoTaxa:Village pump (technical)/Archive 1 (section)

== Javascript question (I think) ==

I am using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8 and Windows Vista. Recently I have been having trouble on Wikipedia doing simple things like getting the cursor to move in the text. Navigating while editing within the text of an article is more and more difficult and unreliable. Easily (and for seemingly no reason) all or parts of the text gets selected (turning blue or gray) and usually I have to leave the page and then return to alleviate this problem. Because I do not have this problem other than on Wikipedia, I am wondering if this is a Wikipedia problem. (Also, it is very easy to lose control - have the text jumping around or scrolling out of control - as if javascript (or whatever) is operating too fast. Am I making sense in this question? Thanks, --[[User:Mattisse|<span style="color:#007FFF;">'''Mattisse'''</span>]] 15:59, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

:Are you editing long pages (i.e. pages with source text at or greater than 32kb)? That's been known to cause problems with some browsers. [[User:Nihiltres|<span style="color:#275CA9;">Nihiltres</span>]]<sup>'''('''<span class="plainlinks">[[User talk:Nihiltres|<span style="color:#000;">t</span>]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?user=Nihiltres <span style="color:#000;">l</span>]</span>''')'''</sup> 16:41, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

:Easy way to find out if it is indeed a script causing your problems, is to disable Javascript in Firefox, then see if the problem still exists. <span style="font-family: verdana;"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color: #008;">'''''E''dokter'''</span>]] • [[User_talk:Edokter|<span style="color: #080;">Talk</span>]] • </span> 16:44, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

::Yes, long pages probably. No problem posting here today. Also, often there is a long lag before something shows up. Yesterday I found I had signed twice several times  because the first time nothing seemed to happen. But when I looked in Preview I saw two signatures. Also, I posted the same message three times on one user's page because I kept getting "Wikipedia is having a problem" messages and did not know it was posting, making that user very angry as he thought I had done it intentionally and called me "childish". Thanks for your response! --[[User:Mattisse|<span style="color:#007FFF;">'''Mattisse'''</span>]] 17:40, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

:::I know this is a generic response, but have you gone to Windows Update in the Control Panel and checked if there are any reliability updates that for some reason haven't made it to your computer yet? —[[User:Remember the dot|Remember the dot]] <sup>([[User talk:Remember the dot|talk]])</sup> 01:15, 21 October 2007 (UTC)