Hello again Gordon,
After about 3 hours browsing, I discovered that Chrome has a problem on W7 64-bit with USB 3.0 devices (or more specifically, the drivers)! This affects the Espruino native IDE.
I found this out because Chrome crashed when I tried to open the settings page. This seems to be a reasonably well documented issue. However, it is a driver issue and not a Chrome issue, according to Chrome. Can't imagine why this affects the native IDE though....
I unplugged my USB 3.0 devices (USB 2 is fine) and the everything worked OK.
Apparently, this doesn't mean that you have to do without USB 3.0; there are updated drivers available somewhere, I haven't got that far yet.
At least now I should be able to use my new devices :-)
Hope this helps with anyone else out there who is still running on W7. I have a lot of stuff on W7 and as a result I am nervous to move to W10 - but I imagine I will have to bite the bullet sometime if the hassles continue.
Jimgi
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Hello again Gordon,
After about 3 hours browsing, I discovered that Chrome has a problem on W7 64-bit with USB 3.0 devices (or more specifically, the drivers)! This affects the Espruino native IDE.
I found this out because Chrome crashed when I tried to open the settings page. This seems to be a reasonably well documented issue. However, it is a driver issue and not a Chrome issue, according to Chrome. Can't imagine why this affects the native IDE though....
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/chrome/FdRgxB_S4EA/yj8RybRpDwAJ
I unplugged my USB 3.0 devices (USB 2 is fine) and the everything worked OK.
Apparently, this doesn't mean that you have to do without USB 3.0; there are updated drivers available somewhere, I haven't got that far yet.
At least now I should be able to use my new devices :-)
Hope this helps with anyone else out there who is still running on W7. I have a lot of stuff on W7 and as a result I am nervous to move to W10 - but I imagine I will have to bite the bullet sometime if the hassles continue.
Jimgi