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Google Chrome Showing wrong Webcam
Posted: Thu 21 Oct 2010 10:31 am
by mickopla
Hi Guys
I'm having a weird problem with Google Chrome since last night. When i look at my website
http://www.waterfordcityweather.com using their browser its not showing my webcam on my site. All the other browsers are showing the proper cam of Waterford City but Chrome is showing someplace in California. I'm using a Wunderground sticker to pin it to my site. There is no contact email for Google to inform them of my problem. Has anyone else had this problem???
Cheers
Mike
Edit: Just checked it using Google Chrome on my laptop and its showing the proper image so i guess its a problem with Chrome on my desktop pc. Will clear the cache and see if that fixes the problem.
Re: Google Chrome Showing wrong Webcam
Posted: Thu 21 Oct 2010 10:36 am
by daj
Mike
It is fine for me -- I have just tried it on Chrome, Firefox, IE 8, all on a PC. Safari, Firefox and Chrome on a Mac and they all look the same
I see this...
screen.jpg
When you are in Chrome, click the Reload Page button in the toolbar to refresh -- Chrome may be caching something
Re: Google Chrome Showing wrong Webcam
Posted: Thu 21 Oct 2010 10:46 am
by mickopla
Cheers for the fast reply daj. I have reloaded but still the wrong image is showing. As i said in the edit above i will try and clear the cache to see if that fixes the problem.
Re: Google Chrome Showing wrong Webcam
Posted: Thu 21 Oct 2010 11:13 am
by mickopla
Un-installed Chrome and re-installed still getting the wrong image on my page. Any other things i could try???
Re: Google Chrome Showing wrong Webcam
Posted: Thu 21 Oct 2010 11:39 am
by mickopla
I've had it confirmed by another user that Chrome 8 is showing the wrong image on his computer so its not just at my end. Looks like it depends which version of chrome is running.
Re: Google Chrome Showing wrong Webcam
Posted: Thu 21 Oct 2010 11:48 am
by daj
8 ?
You on the Dev. Channel release?
7.0.517.41 is the current, live/stable version
Re: Google Chrome Showing wrong Webcam
Posted: Thu 21 Oct 2010 11:48 am
by steve
Chrome 7 seems to have the same problem.
Re: Google Chrome Showing wrong Webcam
Posted: Thu 21 Oct 2010 11:50 am
by daj
Now that is very interesting -- I have just tried again and I am now seeing somewhere which is clearly no Waterford! (I'm on 7, and was on 7 when I tried earlier)

Re: Google Chrome Showing wrong Webcam
Posted: Thu 21 Oct 2010 11:55 am
by steve
Looking the page source, it's supposed to be fetching:
http://www.wunderground.com/swf/pws_min ... ic&lang=EN
If you paste that into Chrome's address bar, it works. If you just use
http://www.wunderground.com/swf/pws_min ... 4&freq=5.0
you get that default image (the WU admin's?), so it looks as though part of the original URL is getting lost somehow.
Re: Google Chrome Showing wrong Webcam
Posted: Thu 21 Oct 2010 12:19 pm
by mickopla
daj wrote:8 ?
You on the Dev. Channel release?
7.0.517.41 is the current, live/stable version
No I'm on the stable version it was just the user who tried it was using 8 according to him but maybe he was mistaken.
Re: Google Chrome Showing wrong Webcam
Posted: Thu 21 Oct 2010 12:28 pm
by mcrossley
I tried it a couple of hours ago and it worked fine, just checked again and it still works for me. Chrome 6.0.472.63
Re: Google Chrome Showing wrong Webcam
Posted: Thu 21 Oct 2010 12:31 pm
by mcrossley
And just upgraded to 7.0.517.41 and it no longer works!
Re: Google Chrome Showing wrong Webcam
Posted: Thu 21 Oct 2010 1:42 pm
by daj
On a side note, and not actually causing this problem, you have an unclosed HTML tag....
You can see how you open a <div> and close it </div>, then open another but not close it anywhere further on
I think you need </div> at the end of this code snip, so...
Re: Google Chrome Showing wrong Webcam
Posted: Thu 21 Oct 2010 1:55 pm
by daj
If you remove the <param> tag it seems to work
So delete all this
Code: Select all
<param name="movie" value="http://www.wunderground.com/swf/pws_mini_rf.swf?station=IWATERFO4&freq=5.0&units=metric&lang=EN" />
Re: Google Chrome Showing wrong Webcam
Posted: Thu 21 Oct 2010 4:31 pm
by mickopla
Thanks daj for that. Am in work now so will make those changes when I get home later.