Vista - Web site disables glass

Here's yet another Vista issue: I went to my bank's (www.chase.com) web site
in IE7. Then I get an alert that IE is temporarily shutting down glass. I
kill all the IE windows, and glass comes back. Thing is, EVERY time I go to
www.chase.com, glass gets disabled. Anyone else see this, and possibly know
why IE7 thinks this site somehow interferes with glass?

I just tried this for you and my glass works fine, sorry i cannot help you
with this


"Keith Patrick" <richard_keith_patrick@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Here's yet another Vista issue: I went to my bank's (www.chase.com) web
> site in IE7. Then I get an alert that IE is temporarily shutting down
> glass. I kill all the IE windows, and glass comes back. Thing is, EVERY
> time I go to www.chase.com, glass gets disabled. Anyone else see this, and
> possibly know why IE7 thinks this site somehow interferes with glass?

BTW: The upgrade advisor told me my machine is OK to run with full effects
(it scores a 3.7, with video being the 3.7), although my graphics memory
ain't all that (it's a Radeon 9600). Maybe the window takes up too much vid
memory (takes me back to the days when I'd have black icons on my screen)

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:52:43 -0500, "Keith Patrick"
<richard_keith_patrick@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote:

>Here's yet another Vista issue: I went to my bank's (www.chase.com) web site
>in IE7. Then I get an alert that IE is temporarily shutting down glass. I
>kill all the IE windows, and glass comes back. Thing is, EVERY time I go to
>www.chase.com, glass gets disabled. Anyone else see this, and possibly know
>why IE7 thinks this site somehow interferes with glass?

Again Justin confirms he's just a world class dummy that loves to fake
being a computer expert. There is nothing wrong with the Chase site.
Just checked. It does not break Aero or turn it off. It does ask if
you want to install a Quick Time Active X control. Big deal.

a) who is Justin?
b) what's the point of calling someone a "dummy". This is a forum for
helping people, not getting into a pissing contest.

There are certain technologies that aren't fully compatible with the new glass effect. Offhand, I know that Java still has some issues, and Vista will disable the glass effect when certain (all?) Java applications are running. I just used Java as an example (it's common on web sites), but there are numerous other pieces of software that will cause this, as well. This should ultimately be fixed as companies are making their software fully Vista compatible, but it's something that you're going to have to live with for a while.

"Adam Albright" <AA@ABC.net> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:52:43 -0500, "Keith Patrick"
> <richard_keith_patrick@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Here's yet another Vista issue: I went to my bank's (www.chase.com) web
>>site
>>in IE7. Then I get an alert that IE is temporarily shutting down glass. I
>>kill all the IE windows, and glass comes back. Thing is, EVERY time I go
>>to
>>www.chase.com, glass gets disabled. Anyone else see this, and possibly
>>know
>>why IE7 thinks this site somehow interferes with glass?
>
> Again Justin confirms he's just a world class dummy that loves to fake
> being a computer expert. There is nothing wrong with the Chase site.
> Just checked. It does not break Aero or turn it off. It does ask if
> you want to install a Quick Time Active X control. Big deal.
>

quicktime can break glass ... I had to start quicktime in safemode so that
it didnt screw up aero.

I don't have Java installed on my machine (years as a Java developer soured
me on it), and all of my ActiveX controls (except for Shockwave, which is
pretty unstable, but too many web sites force me to use it)
I think what is going on is that my video memory is nearly maxed out, and
there are enough colors on that particular web site to force Vista to
downgrade so that some mem can be freed up. I need to track down a web page
with a LOT of uncompressed color to verify that, but so far, that's my hunch
as to what's going on. If that's the case, then it most definitely is not a
Vista bug, but rather a reasonably elegant way around the mem issue
(although I would prefer glass to come back when that window closes rather
than all IE windows)

No problems with QuickTime and Aero here.
What is "safemode"?


"Nut Cracker" <nutcracker@internationalhacker.org> wrote in message news:u0vKTLwcHHA.648@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>
> "Adam Albright" <AA@ABC.net> wrote in message
> news:4hjq03lovo81vvtg1qi3qrjmfhihbeeih7@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:52:43 -0500, "Keith Patrick"
>> <richard_keith_patrick@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Here's yet another Vista issue: I went to my bank's (www.chase.com) web
>>>site
>>>in IE7. Then I get an alert that IE is temporarily shutting down glass. I
>>>kill all the IE windows, and glass comes back. Thing is, EVERY time I go
>>>to
>>>www.chase.com, glass gets disabled. Anyone else see this, and possibly
>>>know
>>>why IE7 thinks this site somehow interferes with glass?
>>
>> Again Justin confirms he's just a world class dummy that loves to fake
>> being a computer expert. There is nothing wrong with the Chase site.
>> Just checked. It does not break Aero or turn it off. It does ask if
>> you want to install a Quick Time Active X control. Big deal.
>>
>
> quicktime can break glass ... I had to start quicktime in safemode so that
> it didnt screw up aero.
>
>

There are many things that can make Vista temporarily disable Aero, I was just metioning Java as an example of something that commonly does do it. Anothing thing is that even some internal Vista components will temporarily disable it when trying to run (the UAC prompt can actually disable Aero even).