Snap not Working on HP Chromebook 14

That's a really old model, right? It would be a 2014 model. Can you check whether it's running the latest Chrome? Otherwise it might not support current JavaScript features required to run Snap.

what errors? take a screenshot

Nope. But what I did notice is that they "when key pressed" stopped working with automatic auto correct (it corrects your words without the red line under it)

It is, or else the tab layout wouldnt look like that.
Example:
Old (from 2014):
image
New:


@power_hack's:
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It is identical to mine, except that I changed my theme to purple.

@sarpnt I updated the post to include a screenshot with the errors

@bh I did find that all the java script errors lead back to:

Uncaught ReferenceError: modules is not defined
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token .
Uncaught ReferenceError: WorldMorph is not defined

@jens I checked for any Chromebook updates and it's all up to date

Well- mine is a school handout. So it might be a software thing, I don’t know.

This was happening to @mr_owlssssnap2 and others if I remember the topics from a week ago. They all said it was on chrome book.

Try clearing your cache. That's not guaranteed to work, but it might.

To clear the cache

shift+reload, or if you have devtools open (console/inspect element), you can right click reload, and select empty cache and hard reload.

Alternatively, you can clear the cache in the settings.

the first error is on this line of code:
var buff = new Uint8Array(await aFile?.arrayBuffer()),
the only . is part of the ?. operator which is pretty new.

like jens suggested, your browser is old and you need to update it.

if the laptop is old enough that they aren't providing updates for it anymore, you'd need to find a workaround like installing linux on it.
chromebooks often only get around 6.5 years of support and never get updates again, i'd reccomend avoiding them for that reason. normal computers allow installing and upgrading anything you want on them and generally make it easy.

I never said anything? The website bugs were global, not just a local chromebook problem. This bug powerhack is experiencing doesn't happen to me.

Oh I thought you made a topic on it, someone did.

Oh, ok.

I'm sorry but your Chromebook is definitely not running an even halfway current version of Chrome. Maybe it's been deprecated and taken out of of update services and that's why there aren't any updates available for you. The errors you're showing suggests that your system is running a version of JavaScript that's older than ES8 which was introduced in 2017. In order to run the current version of Snap! v8 you need a browser that supports at least ES11 which has been around since 2020.

I took a deeper look and updates stopped coming out on that laptop a few years back. It couldn't handle anything after 2019. Thanks for all the help :slight_smile:

just to be clear if you didn't get it from before: you can still use that laptop if you install linux on it. don't waste a perfectly good computer!

If it is a school computer they might not be able to.

See? I knew it!

Unfortunately, the computer can't handle Linux.

what do you mean by that? pretty much anything should be able to run something small like arch, artix, or alpine linux. note that i'm not just suggesting to use crouton, you would likely get much better performance and security from a native install.

arch wiki has information about this particular chromebook too: HP Chromebook 14 - ArchWiki