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New to CircuitLab - already very excited, thank you!

I've established a CircuitLab account and can log in successfully from any browser. Results past that point vary.

Issue: In Firefox, logged in, it runs smoothly in every respect (build and test functions both), except I can't get it to save no matter what I've tried. Upon "save" or "save as", both leaving the default new file name or setting a new file name, I get "Error saving your circuit. Your circuit was not saved."

I would very much like to be running CircuitLab mainly in Firefox, as that's my main general browser and web organizer.

Win XP pro SP2 machine, old but stable, known and reliable.

Troubleshooting so far:

Starting version of Firefox was current at about about 6 or 8 months back, no issues noticed with it with other web use.

Minimal add-ons, Ghostery (anti-ad-tracker) being a possible culprit - deactivated it specifically for circuitlab.com. No change. And then globally for everything. No change.

Updated to current Firefox 16.0.2. No change.

Removed all old versions of Java and installed the most recent one. No change. Uninstalled all Java entirely. No change, but CircuitLab still works the same as it had been. (Does CircuitLab use Java? Javascript is enabled in Firefox).

Comparisons:

Whatever ancient version of IExplorer came with my computer (I don't use IE as a web browser, it's not updated), I can log in at CircuitLab, but as expected it's a complete mess in representation and (non) function. Not a problem as it's not needed to run in IE. Just tried for comparison purposes.

Google Chrome (Version 23.0.1271.64 m) - CircuitLab runs fine and I can save normally. Whatever is saved using Chrome can then be opened from Firefox - but any changes cannot be saved from Firefox.

Thoughts? Thanks!

Further report:

On trying to post the above to your forum via Firefox, it would not post, instead indicating:

https://www.circuitlab.com/nojs/

• which means "no javascript", correct? Upon re-checking, Javascript was definitely enabled in Firefox. Re-installed latest Java yet again. Same result as above.

Had to log in via Chrome to post this.

I bet these two issues are related. ;)

I can run CL fine in FF 16.0.2 on WinXP Pro SP3.

AFAIK, your JRE (Java Runtime Environment, which is what installing Java sets up) is nothing to do with Javascript, so re-installing Java won't make any difference anyway.

Sanity check: you have done this:

http://www.enable-javascript.com/#firefox

haven't you?

:)

SP2 is very old now. Try updating XP to SP3?

Nope, don’t update because of CL (SP3 has some disadvantages, e.g. you can’t go back to SP2 …).

The OS is relatively far away from the browser’s JavaScript engine (you need JavaScript enabled in browser anyway to use CL).

But Java is not needed, don’t install, use or enable it when you are not absolutely sure WHY you’d need it.

Flash is dangerous enough (but not needed for CL).

I have XP SP2 on an virtual machine and can save circuits using FF 16.0.2, no problems - but I have no add ons and anti virus installed.

Hmmmm - Your username is suspect. Try to set up a new account but don’t use a “.”, just to make sure ...

Update to FF 17.0?

Update: I've tried all the above suggestions, thank you all.

No luck in firefox. Whatever it is, it's just specific to this machine - the problem doesn't happen on any other of the computers I use. I've been using chrome to work in circuitlab, and moving the appropriate bookmarks over. It's workable :)

Thanks for the help!