Windows: Hangs at "Checking connection quality" if Alexa Top Domains is selected

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Launch Namebench 1.0 self-extracting exe
2. Run tests


What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

The application will freeze every time at some point without any result, 
and has to be terminated from Task Manager.


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Version 0.96 and 1.0 on Windows 7 x64.


Please provide any additional information below.


The unzip routine does not come to an end, even after the main program has 
shown up.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ectomorp...@gmail.com on 7 Dec 2009 at 8:57

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It's been tested under Win 7 x64 without problems, though I suspect this is 
related to:

http://code.google.com/p/namebench/issues/detail?id=27
http://code.google.com/p/namebench/issues/detail?id=30

Can you search your system to see if there is a namebench.exe.log file in your 
temporary files directory? If so, can you post the contents here?

Original comment by tstromb...@google.com on 7 Dec 2009 at 9:11

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Hi, here are the contents of this file:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "libnamebench\tk.pyc", line 55, in run
  File "libnamebench\base_ui.pyc", line 84, in PrepareBenchmark
  File "libnamebench\benchmark.pyc", line 74, in CreateTestsFromFile
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
'C:\\Users\\Giannino\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\ckz_4KT8\\library.zip\\data/alexa-to
p-
10000-global.txt'

Original comment by ectomorp...@gmail.com on 7 Dec 2009 at 9:24

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Fantastic. Thanks for th

Original comment by tstromb...@google.com on 7 Dec 2009 at 9:38

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Thanks for the bug report. I'm able to reproduce it! It looks like it's 
isolated to the Alexa 
Top Global Domains data source on Windows.  If you select another source such 
as a 
web browser history, it should work for you. A fix will be forthcoming.

Original comment by tstromb...@google.com on 7 Dec 2009 at 9:40

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Ok, fine!
But the only benchmark source is Mozilla Firefox (while I don't even use it): 
isn't 
namebench mistaking somehow Chrome for Firefox?

Original comment by ectomorp...@gmail.com on 7 Dec 2009 at 10:08

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It sounds like namebench is not finding your chrome history file then. Do you 
mind 
pasting the path to the "History" file used by Chrome on your machine? On 
Windows, 
we currently try:

os.getenv('APPDATA', ''), 'Google', 'Chrome', 'User Data', 'Default', History'),
os.getenv('USERPROFILE', ''), 'Local Settings', 'Application Data',  'Google', 
'Chrome', 
'User Data', 'Default', 'History'),

Original comment by tstromb...@google.com on 7 Dec 2009 at 11:35

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Ok, the History files are right in:
C:\Users\[me]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

They're in Default, there's no History folder.

Original comment by ectomorp...@gmail.com on 7 Dec 2009 at 11:42

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Is there a file named 'History' in the Default folder?

Original comment by helixblue on 8 Dec 2009 at 12:28

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Yup!

Original comment by ectomorp...@gmail.com on 8 Dec 2009 at 12:33

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I've uploaded namebench 1.0.1 - can you confirm whether or not this fixes the 
bug?

Original comment by tstromb...@google.com on 8 Dec 2009 at 1:59

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This fixed the bug for me.  Thanks.

Original comment by Philosop...@gmail.com on 8 Dec 2009 at 2:16

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Original comment by tstromb...@google.com on 8 Dec 2009 at 2:22

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