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Yep, me too....I want gPhone, gMedia player, gCoffee maker, g-etc.
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Computer issues... again. RAM?
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Brett
Meat-Hippy
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Google = SkyNet
Milner
formerly "rckcrlr"
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Yeah, for the size and the monopolistic nature of Google, they are a pretty good company. They give a ton back to the open source community. The Google Toolbar is the only toolbar I will allow to be installed at work. If I see others, I remove them.
...and Kurt, is this the machine you recently bought? You shouldn't be having issues like this. As long as you've got 1gb+ of memory you should be fine even with IE and lots of windows/tabs (and it really hurts me to say that, IE is one of the worst applications ever publicly released). If it were me, I'd probably wipe and re-install, who knows what was done during setup and how it was done. Just re-install a plain old vanilla install of XP and you should be good to go.
oh, and you're not on Vista right? (if so, see my note above...wipe and re-install XP)
If this is the computer I sold him, its XP Pro sp2. With 1.5gb ram, I didnt load any bloatware, just windows xp, and a topo program from Garmin.
Then why would you make this comment?
The average user should never ever have to touch the virtual memory. Nor should it ever be touched if you're just loading the system and a topo program.
I'll get the same exact thing after IE7 has been open for days and days. It's a pig. Actually I could do it with IE6 but it took much much much more effort.
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Milner
formerly "rckcrlr"
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Yet another tangent....
At work FF has issues with my gmail. I can not send new messages, however if I open gmail in IE it works fine, but I hat using IE. It chokes on forum replies sometimes too. I assume it is some weird firewall/server/security issue with the work network....
Any of you net work types now how I can get it to work/around it?
At work FF has issues with my gmail. I can not send new messages, however if I open gmail in IE it works fine, but I hat using IE. It chokes on forum replies sometimes too. I assume it is some weird firewall/server/security issue with the work network....
Any of you net work types now how I can get it to work/around it?
It won't be a security/firewall issue if it works in IE. Firefox and IE both would be using the same port so there's no way for your IT team to say it won't work in Firefox but will in IE. Besides, if they are limiting Firefox they are a bunch of morons.
Agreed completely, and I've yet to find a browser on the PC that doesn't develop a memory leak after being open for days and days. Like you mentioned earlier in this thread, Firefox does the exact same thing.
Milner
formerly "rckcrlr"
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HELLO, you know where I work....What do you think
Our core data base will not allow me to access it with FF....
Yes, I do know where you workHELLO, you know where I work....What do you think
Our core data base will not allow me to access it with FF....
What I'm saying though is it would take a ton of work to block Firefox, and really I don't know if it would even be possible without blocking it 100%. The only thing you could try and do is hit a proxy site in Firefox and see if Gmail works like that. Although, this could get you in trouble because it would show you're blatantly trying to get around their filtering. Any IT dept worth their salt will have Proxies blocked as well if they are filtering traffic.Not being able to access the database is likely not a security issue, but rather an implementation issue. There are lots of things that will only work in IE.
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Knock on wood no issues yet... I guess I didn't realize that browsers took so much memory. I'll have windows that are literally open for weeks (email, etc). I'll change my ways
Aside from that, Firefox is pretty seamless, I'm liking it, especially the built in spell check, saves me the copy/paste into word to spell check a long reply or email.
Aside from that, Firefox is pretty seamless, I'm liking it, especially the built in spell check, saves me the copy/paste into word to spell check a long reply or email.
Yup, but with firefox if you have the right extension you can end task it then open firefox and watch all of your windows and tabs (even any text you have typed into a reply box) reappear before your very eyes
Knock on wood no issues yet... I guess I didn't realize that browsers took so much memory. I'll have windows that are literally open for weeks (email, etc). I'll change my ways
Aside from that, Firefox is pretty seamless, I'm liking it, especially the built in spell check, saves me the copy/paste into word to spell check a long reply or email.
Theme I like http://mozilla-themes.schellen.net/firefox.html
Extensions you are going to love
http://adblockplus.org/en/
http://www.downthemall.net/
http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/
http://www.mediapirate.org/
http://noscript.net/
and most importantly
http://sessionmanager.mozdev.org/
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Haven't played with any of the extensions yet, but I dig firefox... I get so stuck in my ways with things that I rarely change, glad I did in this case. Not only has it prevented the freeze up issues I was having (had over 50 windows and tabs open yesterday ) but the spell check is killer (yes, I'm sure IE has a spell check, but I didn't know how to utilize it)
) but the spell check is killer (yes, I'm sure IE has a spell check, but I didn't know how to utilize it)
Tacoma
Et incurventur ante non
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hahah
I waited like 5 or 6 years before I switched to Firefox. POOF! No more spam!
I waited like 5 or 6 years before I switched to Firefox. POOF! No more spam!