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Seven Volume Urtext
Concordance (abridged)
If this is your first time, PLEASE
read this before you click!!!
Firefox Browser is
recommended for the Concordances due to its greater speed and superb internal
search capability but A) other
browsers will work (slower and with some limitations) and B) Firefox has a bug (in version 3.6.13) which can cause
trouble if you’re not aware of the fixes.
This page explains the fixes.
In
short the remedy is quite simple:
Browser add-ons which
search web pages may make the Concordance sluggish. Disable such add-ons when using the Concordances to speed
things up. If the
browser “seizes up” in Firefox after trying to resize the width of the window,
press CTRL+ALT+DELETE. This will “unseize” Firefox in both Windows XP and Windows 7.
See below for a more
thorough explanation.
If you experience difficulty making the Concordances work click
below:
With ANY Browser, under certain circumstances the Concordance can
be sluggish and even cause your computer to freeze. To avoid this:
1) Do not attempt to resize the width of
a browser window if using Firefox. If
you forget to avoid it, hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE.
2) Click “Tools -> Add-ons” and “disable” Skype
extension (or any other browser add-on that searches every web page) if it
is present. Specific controls for
disabling and enabling add-ons vary with different browsers.
1) Firefox window resizing bug
Usually we want the browser window
to be as large as possible when using a Concordance, so it will usually be
loaded full screen and left that way. In
that case there is no problem. If you do try to resize the width (only in
Firefox, Internet Explorer does not have this problem) the computer can become
totally unresponsive for a very long time.
This does not damage the computer or your data but it is very annoying
if you don’t know how to get out of it.
If this happens you can clear it by
pressing CTRL+ALT+Delete which loads
the Windows Task Manager (in XP directly, in Windows 7 first you get a menu
from which you select Task Manager).
That’s it, load the task manager and
then minimize it or close it and the “freeze” is released. But the “resize” will not have succeeded. If you need to resize the Concordance window,
first exit the Concordance then resize the window, then launch the Concordance
again.
1) Skype Add-on sluggishness
Launching any of the Concordances in
your Browser loads some huge files. On
newer and faster computers the Concordances are very quick and responsive even
with such add-ons, but on slower computers the Concordances can load rather
slowly, especially when using the them over the
Internet rather than from CD or hard disk.
If you experience the Concordance as
sluggish, look for and disable any Browser Helper Objects or Add-Ons. This applies to
all browsers using any add-ons to search web pages rather than simply load and
display them.
The “Skype extension” in Firefox (and
other browsers) scans web pages for recognizable phone numbers and enables you
to call those on Skype with a single click.
BUT it significantly slows down the display of large web pages.
On an extremely fast Intel i7
computer, the Urtext
Concordance loads from hard disk in 7 seconds with the Skype add-on disabled. When
the add-on is enabled, it takes 15
seconds to load. While 15 seconds is not
perhaps too bad, on slower computers, the loading will take longer and the
doubling of loading time may be more of a nuisance.
Any other Add-On or Browser Helper
Object which searches web pages as they load MAY introduce the same kind of
problem.
Browsers generally have very simple
controls to switch such add-ons off and on since they can cause difficulty with
certain webpages.
This Concordance has been optimized for Mozilla Firefox, which, at
the time of development, had by far the best built-in search function, which is
central to the functioning of the Concordances.
Day by day new browsers and new features in old browsers emerge
and so results with any browser cannot be guaranteed and it is possible that
some new ones are as good as Firefox when searching.
Firefox is free, second only to IE in popularity, and is highly
recommended and widely recognized as the best.
To download Firefox in any of 70 languages: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
Note: adding Firefox to
your computer will not compromise any other browser you may be running, you can have numerous browsers on a single
computer.