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IDE Troubleshooting
Nicholas Foley
posted Mar 13, 2014

This may not be the best place to post this, but I'm noticing some differences when I am using the IDE compared to the help document. The most basic example is when I begin typing:

context.intc = sid(

The dialog opens for the search, but regardless of what I enter, no information appears. I've tried Internet Explorer, which was an even worse experience. I imagine the below information is relevant, any help that can be provided is appreciated. Thanks!

Google Chrome 33.0.1750.146 (Official Build 254388) m
OS Windows
Blink 537.36 (@168249)
JavaScript V8 3.23.17.20
Flash 12.0.0.70
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/33.0.1750.146 Safari/537.36

2 responses
Nicholas Foley
Mar 13, 2014

Looks like I didn't do enough troubleshooting on my own first. Sorry. Just in case anyone else runs into something similar, try running chrome in safe-mode and going from there. It looks like one of my extensions might be causing the problem, most likely DoNotTrack or similar. Thanks.

Dan Dunn
Mar 13, 2014

Also, we had some performance problems with the sid() lookup. We shipped some code to make it work faster.

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