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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Well, I do admit I got a bit carried away on that one. It was late, was feeling a bit argumentative.

    But my point still stands -
    My point is that what you conceive as "counterculture and uber-cool" may just be the next-big-thing you'll be bragging about using tomorrow.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Whooooooosh. You know what that is? That's this whole thing going over your head.
    But maybe you're too busy doing the important work of being different to realise that :lol:
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Firefox has a great habit of completetely locking out when it can't load a page, for whatever reason, with RAM usage climbing higher and higher. Then it freezes the whole computer. When you eventually shut it off, and start the browser again, it automatically tries to reload the page that fried it! Can this auto page load be shut off?
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  • thel33ter
    thel33ter Posts: 2,684
    There should be a way to do that in the normal settings menu, otherwise There's a way to do it in the about:config menu.

    Type about:config in the address bar, a popup saying you'll lose your warranty or something will popup, click ok or whatever.

    Then in the filter bar at the top type session, hit enter. The list of things should get shorter.

    Double click on browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes and change the value to 0
    Double click on browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash and the value will change to false.

    While you're at it, type jit into the filter bar, and make all of those values true, adds a bit of speed normally.
    And now you know, and knowing is half the battle
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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Ah nice one!
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  • Clark3y
    Clark3y Posts: 129
    You should not have to turn that feature off. They introduced a feature to alleviate that problem a while ago, might have been with v4 but I'm pretty sure it was in v3 too. When it starts up after a crash you should get a 'Opp, this is embarassing' screen with a list of the previous tabs you had open, you can then untick the one which caused the crash and restore all the others.
  • thel33ter
    thel33ter Posts: 2,684
    That feature does exist, but only happens if the browser crashes and closes itself, and even then it only happens sometimes.
    And now you know, and knowing is half the battle
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  • joshtp
    joshtp Posts: 3,966
    Chrome FTW!! or I.E 10 if you must... the new FireFox may look great but I'm still not a fan. And if looks are the main player then the new I.E wins hands down. Nothing, however can knock Chrome of the top spot for me.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I.E. 10, eh?
    How's it like in the year 2013? Is nutlube a success yet?
  • joshtp
    joshtp Posts: 3,966
    haha, I.E 9, I mean.
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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Well my computer has speeded up amazingly! I got rid of AVG anti virus. Was never using it, and it was never detecting anything.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Good call. AVG couldn't find dirt on an allotment.
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    It had an annoying habit of launching its notifier when I was doing something important. To do this it would launch IE again, then connect to its update service, then take up massiv amounts of resources. I want an anti virus to stop stuff liek this happening, not contribute to it!
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  • Valy
    Valy Posts: 1,321
    Give chrome a go.

    Now it has quite a few of the add ons of FF, well ones I used at least and starts up a lot faster and generally feels more light weight.

    Used to have FF all the time but now Chrome has the add ons I more or less use that - mainly because it starts up very quickly and the browsing is pretty quick too.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    supersonic wrote:
    It had an annoying habit of launching its notifier when I was doing something important. To do this it would launch IE again, then connect to its update service, then take up massiv amounts of resources. I want an anti virus to stop stuff liek this happening, not contribute to it!
    Someone had a laptop in the studio recently with AVAST! anti virus on it. It would annoyingly pipe up every hour or so "Avast has not found any threats on your machine". Cause, you know... that's useful information :roll:

    Even more annoyingly, for a product called AVAST!, it didn't alert you in a pirate accent. Now THAT, I could have tolerated.
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Norton I used to hate. Just took the computer over! Now that was a pirate.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Aye, Norton actually had a worse effect on the machine than the viruses it was trying to eliminate :roll:
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Aye! "Norton has protected your recycle bin. It cannot be emptied at this time". WTF? It just droned on in the background slowing everything to a crawl while doing nothing useful.
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  • Mojo_666
    Mojo_666 Posts: 860
    NOD32 IMO has the best power to weight ratio of any AV software on the meerkat.

    http://www.eset.co.uk/

    Most security products are now so over bloated and want to do too much, when all that you need to do is run nod32 and stay away from porn and warez sites.

    Just my 2 cents
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  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    Mojo_666 wrote:
    NOD32 IMO has the best power to weight ratio of any AV software on the meerkat.

    http://www.eset.co.uk/

    Most security products are now so over bloated and want to do too much, when all that you need to do is run nod32 and stay away from porn and warez sites.

    Just my 2 cents

    Which kind of defeats the object of the internet.
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  • Mojo_666
    Mojo_666 Posts: 860
    cooldad wrote:
    Mojo_666 wrote:
    NOD32 IMO has the best power to weight ratio of any AV software on the meerkat.

    http://www.eset.co.uk/

    Most security products are now so over bloated and want to do too much, when all that you need to do is run nod32 and stay away from porn and warez sites.

    Just my 2 cents

    Which kind of defeats the object of the internet.

    If you use private news groups and the like then pretty much all of this has been grabbed cleaned filtered and packaged for you.

    Even bit torrent has a rating systems so where if things are dodgy it is clearly visible...things have moved on you can still get the good stuff, just stay away from the websites pedalling it.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Mojo_666 wrote:
    Even bit torrent has a rating systems so where if things are dodgy it is clearly visible...
    Which is created by people downloading it, then going "AAARGH, it's riddles with malware", right? So, what if you're one of the people who gets caught up?

    Logic, dear boy, LOGIC. It's not hard.
  • Mojo_666
    Mojo_666 Posts: 860
    edited May 2011
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    Mojo_666 wrote:
    Even bit torrent has a rating systems so where if things are dodgy it is clearly visible...
    Which is created by people downloading it, then going "AAARGH, it's riddles with malware", right? So, what if you're one of the people who gets caught up?

    Logic, dear boy, LOGIC. It's not hard.

    News groups are mostly problem free due to subscriptions on access/bandwith.

    In regards to torrents then if you are desperate to be the first to download something then that's the risk you take.

    Common sense, dear boy, Common sense,. It's not hard!

    Also some people (do not ask me why) will grab stuff just to check andrate and keep the sites free from trash.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    So, what are these newsgroups that spread illicit content then?
  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    Porn newsgroups?
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  • Mojo_666
    Mojo_666 Posts: 860
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    So, what are these newsgroups that spread illicit content then?

    Start Here.....if you have a news service.

    http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-use-usen ... ers-guide/

    If you do not have a news service from your ISP or want something better controlled less regulated and a lot more private then you can subscribe to one and buy bandwidth allocations etc
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I don't want to start anywhere, I just want to see you dig your hole even deeper.
  • chedabob
    chedabob Posts: 1,133
    Mojo_666 wrote:
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    Mojo_666 wrote:
    Even bit torrent has a rating systems so where if things are dodgy it is clearly visible...
    Which is created by people downloading it, then going "AAARGH, it's riddles with malware", right? So, what if you're one of the people who gets caught up?

    Logic, dear boy, LOGIC. It's not hard.

    News groups are mostly problem free due to subscriptions on access/bandwith.

    Newsgroups have been an absolute shitpile lately. The major groups are being flooded with password protected files that you have to complete surveys for.

    Also, Rules 1 & 2.
  • Mojo_666
    Mojo_666 Posts: 860
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    I don't want to start anywhere, I just want to see you dig your hole even deeper.

    Remember, they can only remove your account, not you.

    And the only people who care about that are the ones with the big post counts. ^^
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Mojo_666 wrote:
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    I don't want to start anywhere, I just want to see you dig your hole even deeper.

    Remember, they can only remove your account, not you.

    And the only people who care about that are the ones with the big post counts. ^^
    Excuse me?

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