windows 8

Post by tim
The young genius who built my gaming computer says I do not want to
upgrade to 8. He forbade me.
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2012/12/05/christmas-gift-for-someone-you-hate-windows-8/
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Steve builds high powered gaming machines for folks who "need" them,
and likewise tells them to stick with 7.

Joel Olson

2012-12-08 14:54:48 UTC

Post by tim
The young genius who built my gaming computer says I do not want to upgrade
to 8. He forbade me.
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2012/12/05/christmas-gift-for-someone-you-hate-windows-8/
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Steve builds high powered gaming machines for folks who "need" them, and
likewise tells them to stick with 7.

I'm beginning to think about a new machine. Firefox crashes at
least 6 times a day. I need more tabs.

tim

2012-12-08 16:28:22 UTC

Steve builds high powered gaming machines for folks who "need" them, and
likewise tells them to stick with 7.

I'm beginning to think about a new machine. Firefox crashes at
least 6 times a day. I need more tabs.

I'm having serious problems with Firefox, too, version 17.01. It boots up
VERY slowly. Earlier versions used to launch immediately, and now at times
it takes a couple of minutes to start. My computer is maxed out in RAM and
is very fast, fully up to date in all applications and engines and drivers,
and scans clean as a whistle in disk and OS, yet both Live Mail and Firefox
take forever to launch. I hate to abandon Firefox, as it's been perfect for
me for years now. Friends are using Chrome and like it. My drives are
defragmented and when thoroughly scanned are declared healthy and fit. I
don't know what's going on. My hunch is the Mozilla community is very
quietly working on a different engine, as this one now is proving too
cluttered up to actually work smoothly. I read rumors that they are unhappy
with the performance of Firefox lately.

High Miles

2012-12-08 18:05:35 UTC

Post by High Miles

Steve builds high powered gaming machines for folks who "need"
them, and likewise tells them to stick with 7.

I'm beginning to think about a new machine. Firefox crashes at
least 6 times a day. I need more tabs.

I'm having serious problems with Firefox, too, version 17.01. It
boots up VERY slowly. Earlier versions used to launch immediately,
and now at times it takes a couple of minutes to start. My computer
is maxed out in RAM and is very fast, fully up to date in all
applications and engines and drivers, and scans clean as a whistle in
disk and OS, yet both Live Mail and Firefox take forever to launch. I
hate to abandon Firefox, as it's been perfect for me for years now.
Friends are using Chrome and like it. My drives are defragmented and
when thoroughly scanned are declared healthy and fit. I don't know
what's going on. My hunch is the Mozilla community is very quietly
working on a different engine, as this one now is proving too
cluttered up to actually work smoothly. I read rumors that they are
unhappy with the performance of Firefox lately.
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You guys must be cursed.
I've experienced none of that.

tim

2012-12-08 18:16:15 UTC

Steve builds high powered gaming machines for folks who "need" them,
and likewise tells them to stick with 7.

I'm beginning to think about a new machine. Firefox crashes at
least 6 times a day. I need more tabs.

I'm having serious problems with Firefox, too, version 17.01. It boots
up VERY slowly. Earlier versions used to launch immediately, and now at
times it takes a couple of minutes to start. My computer is maxed out in
RAM and is very fast, fully up to date in all applications and engines
and drivers, and scans clean as a whistle in disk and OS, yet both Live
Mail and Firefox take forever to launch. I hate to abandon Firefox, as
it's been perfect for me for years now. Friends are using Chrome and
like it. My drives are defragmented and when thoroughly scanned are
declared healthy and fit. I don't know what's going on. My hunch is the
Mozilla community is very quietly working on a different engine, as this
one now is proving too cluttered up to actually work smoothly. I read
rumors that they are unhappy with the performance of Firefox lately.
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You guys must be cursed.
I've experienced none of that.

What version of Windows are you using? XP still?

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/681294

High Miles

2012-12-08 18:02:28 UTC

Post by High Miles

Steve builds high powered gaming machines for folks who "need" them,
and likewise tells them to stick with 7.

I'm beginning to think about a new machine. Firefox crashes at
least 6 times a day. I need more tabs.
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I wonder whyit crashes.
Never, ever crashes here.

Don't know from tabs.
But I'm completely devoted to the Mozilla pair for years.
Version 17.0.1 now.

Joel Olson

2012-12-09 05:18:50 UTC

Post by High Miles

Post by tim
The young genius who built my gaming computer says I do not want to upgrade
to 8. He forbade me.
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2012/12/05/christmas-gift-for-someone-you-hate-windows-8/
<

Steve builds high powered gaming machines for folks who "need" them, and
likewise tells them to stick with 7.

I'm beginning to think about a new machine. Firefox crashes at
least 6 times a day. I need more tabs.
<

I wonder whyit crashes.
Never, ever crashes here.
Don't know from tabs.
But I'm completely devoted to the Mozilla pair for years.
Version 17.0.1 now.

I tend to accumulate lots of open tabs. And then the system tells
me I'm using all my ram. And then it crashes. And then the restart
option comes up, and I restart. And then session manager comes
up and I restore the previous session. And close some tabs.

tim

2012-12-09 15:47:34 UTC

Steve builds high powered gaming machines for folks who "need" them,
and likewise tells them to stick with 7.

I'm beginning to think about a new machine. Firefox crashes at
least 6 times a day. I need more tabs.
<

I wonder whyit crashes.
Never, ever crashes here.
Don't know from tabs.
But I'm completely devoted to the Mozilla pair for years.
Version 17.0.1 now.

That's taboo.

Obi-Wan: "You don't want to sell me death sticks... You want to go home and
rethink your life." Elan: "I wanna go home and rethink my life."

Joel Olson

2012-12-09 18:10:01 UTC

Steve builds high powered gaming machines for folks who "need" them, and
likewise tells them to stick with 7.

I'm beginning to think about a new machine. Firefox crashes at
least 6 times a day. I need more tabs.
<

I wonder whyit crashes.
Never, ever crashes here.
Don't know from tabs.
But I'm completely devoted to the Mozilla pair for years.
Version 17.0.1 now.

That's taboo.
Obi-Wan: "You don't want to sell me death sticks... You want to go home and
rethink your life." Elan: "I wanna go home and rethink my life."

It's a question of how much I can retain in short term memory.

tim

2012-12-09 18:43:24 UTC

Steve builds high powered gaming machines for folks who "need" them,
and likewise tells them to stick with 7.

I'm beginning to think about a new machine. Firefox crashes at
least 6 times a day. I need more tabs.
<

I wonder whyit crashes.
Never, ever crashes here.
Don't know from tabs.
But I'm completely devoted to the Mozilla pair for years.
Version 17.0.1 now.

That's taboo.
Obi-Wan: "You don't want to sell me death sticks... You want to go home
and rethink your life." Elan: "I wanna go home and rethink my life."

It's a question of how much I can retain in short term memory.

The most tabs I've ever opened numbered about 15. Mac used to give you the
option of assigning more RAM to specific applications. Never seen that on a
PC. I've maxed out my RAM at 8gb and have never seen the meter go more than
half way to the limit. My guru suggested I use:

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetrade/gr/memtest86.htm

It's a slick and professional RAM testing application. Download an ISO,
burn it to a CD, and run the test off the disk. Even I was able to do this.
Amazing. Not that this is applicable to the present situation.

Wiley Neilson

2012-12-13 03:53:11 UTC