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Agnipoes Agnipoes
posted on Saturday, June 14 2014, 04:18 AM in Game Suggestions
Not sure about the rest of NS players... but like a vast majority of the population I don't use internet explorer or do I ever intend on updating it from it's original install, kinda want to know if it's possible to alter slot and shop to open up in the users default browser instead of trying to open up as internet explorer, and causing painful popups, about changing my default browser and installing new updates...

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Sedy Admin Sedy
replied on Tuesday, July 22 2014, 06:49 AM #Permalink
Not had much luck with this so far. I spent a couple of days trying various options.
I tried replacing it with Awesomium which is basically Chrome embedded, but I read quite a few horror stories from people that play other games that use it and decided it wasn't worth it. Apparently it was causing all sorts of lag and crashes. Not saying it's a bad product, maybe the developers of those games just didn't put it in right, I dunno, but it was enough to put me right off.

Also tried something called CEF which again is Chrome embedded but I believe it would have the same issues since it's basically the same thing. The problem with CEF and Awesomium is that they stay active in the background and if you run Chrome and have checked your task manager you will see it has a shitload of processes open all the time for plugins and whatever else, taking up memory and slowing things down, especially for those with older computers with small ram etc. etc.

So I'm going to leave things as they are for now tbh. Windows XP users should have at least Internet Explorer 8 if they have updated to SP2 or SP3 which is basically good enough to show most of the pages (ranks, SlotZ, donate pages), maybe bar nsDB without errors popping up and if you need to use nsDB you can just come here to the website and use it with your default browser anyway.
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    gaviscon gaviscon
    replied on Saturday, June 14 2014, 10:25 AM #Permalink
    personally i just completely removed internet explorer so nothing can use it as default for obvious reasons lol
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    Sedy Admin Sedy
    replied on Saturday, June 14 2014, 10:35 AM #Permalink
    I tried once before and it wasn't as straight forward as I thought it would be. I'll have another look because the best place for that browser is in the trash.
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    Patatamon Patatamon
    replied on Tuesday, July 22 2014, 07:50 AM #Permalink
    Hello,

    Is this the topic about opening IE when in game to play slotz and browsing through nsDB?
    If yes, I actually have an issue here. :(

    When I try to play slotz or access nsDb for recipes and items, some of my shortcuts and the quest tracker which i positioned somewhere else keeps.. restoring to the default position. Then I have to re-"move" them again. :(

    Thank you,
    Patata
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    Sedy Admin Sedy
    replied on Tuesday, July 22 2014, 08:21 AM #Permalink
    Hmm what resolution do you use and fullscreen or window?
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    Patatamon Patatamon
    replied on Tuesday, July 22 2014, 08:42 AM #Permalink
    Hello Sedy,

    I am using the 1280x768x32 on window mode. I do this so I could check my ping on the right side of the screen and for other notification purposes.
    My screen resolution is 1366x768.

    But I don't mind if it acts that way though.
    I just want to let you guys know that it happens. :)

    Thank you,
    Patata
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    Sedy Admin Sedy
    replied on Tuesday, July 22 2014, 09:06 AM #Permalink
    I'm afraid I can't replicate this. My quest tracker stays put wherever I put it when I open slotz or nsdb etc.
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    Patatamon Patatamon
    replied on Tuesday, July 22 2014, 09:13 AM #Permalink
    I will try to take a video of it if I have the time.
    Or maybe it just happens to my machine, I will just confirm and check.

    Thanks, :)
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