OK, I am not sure how to respond. Very little of what I’m getting back even makes sense to me.
Admittedly, my brain is broken. After working in IT and Mechanical Design/Drafting for 2-1/2 decades (which I was very good at), my Autistic mind couldn’t handle the demands of this NeuroTypical-controlled world. I suffer severe anxiety, depression and C-PTSD now, which killed most of my smarts but turned my music genius on (apparently, great music requires broken brains).
Again, the message that lots of people across the internet get (myself as well as stated in the title of this thread) is that Steinberg is asking us to enable SDA to open in our browser, but nowhere was I ever able to find instructions on how to do that.
But apparently that isn’t actually the problem; we don’t need to enable SDA to be opened by our browser as that’s all apparently taken care of (I assume when SDA was installed? I don’t care.). I took the message literally as the problem I needed to resolve, when its not the issue at all. So this request that pops up in our browser tab means absolutely nothing. Its misleading.
I’ve seen suggestions like turning off antivirus software, and even making sure your clock is actually set dead accurate. I didn’t think any of that applied to me as I was trying to figure out how to obey the faulty message’s instructions, instead. But in my particular case, the problem was that something in Firefox’s cache prevented SDA from being able to function properly. This was the first time I had seen from anyone the suggestion to clear the cache. It most certainly wasn’t an OS security issue in my case.
Its a major bug that Steinberg asks you to do something that has nothing to do with the problem and then leave that bug there for years. But new features seem to be far more important to the vast majority of software companies than actually fixing bugs. My CAD software, as an example, that I paid thousands of dollars for has been slowly disintegrating into a pile of useless trash over the many years I’ve been using/“upgrading” it.
And what’s more, I know what I saw; I posted a reply and my complete reply showed as posted. The next day when I came back to this, that posting was strangely grey, but it was all there. I also couldn’t do anything; all the reply buttons were gone and no new replies were showing. So I refreshed the page, everything came back looking/functioning normally, except my last post was gone, and the first couple of lines from that post were sitting in the ‘create new post’ area. Then I discovered we had an R3 burst from our sun today. Gamma rays like to flip bits so maybe it was that… or this forum software is screwy. Like I alluded to earlier here, I worked in IT for almost 20 years, and the bugs have always been the most maddening thing about computers. My mind is broken from all the stupid stress of life and now I just want to try and see if I can make a living from the only option left to me, writing and recording my music. But unfortunately, about 1/4 of the time, I’m fighting bugs still!
Not trying to pick a fight, but I keep trying to believe that maybe someday, the younger generations will pay attention to the experienced and save themselves even more problems. Just like I used to when I was young. I ended up broken anyway!
Thank you @ADRIAN_DIX; clearing the cache fixed the problem.
I’m done here.