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See, now, I was stubborn about using Firefox. Especially when Charles did that twatty thing of shouting at people using IE on the main page. But now I use Firefox, and everyone who doesn't is wrong. Use Firefox, or you are an idiot. Anyone who tells you to use Linux or a Mac is an idiot. Contradiciton? Yes, but you are an idiot so it doesn't matter. Go Team Kavanagh!
What's wrong with Firefox's bookmark featues? And surely between the extensions and themes available, Firefox is more flexible than IE?
And as to your other problem, have you tried clearing file caching, going to all of your folders in a mad rampage, restarting and then turning it back on? Because that probably won't do anything, but maybe...
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Well it could be worth a shot, caching sounds like a very potential bottleneck. As long as this isn't a high-risk procedure. So, how do you disable file caching? I did a search but all the net talked about was Novell software and SWG.
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*grabs arm* Don't do it, Lee! He's the only one who knows the way out. Besides, it wouldn't bring Blanche back and you know it. She knew the risks involved when she signed up. Unlike Debbie here.
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Mind you, he didn't say disable file caching, he said clearing. Which I presume means clearing out the Temp folder, that sort of thing. And when did you last defrag?
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Did it last month, I was going to today but it said it wasn't necessary. But what did Liam mean by "clearing file caching /.../ restarting, then turning it back on"? That sounds more like some HKEY_ROOTS_BLAH thing than your theory of just emptying Temp file buildup. Would that we'd asked him before you pushed him into the mine shaft.
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: See, now, I was stubborn about using Firefox. Especially when Charles did that twatty thing of shouting at people using IE on the main page. But now I use Firefox, and everyone who doesn't is wrong.
Oh...My...God....
Psy and I actually AGREE on something. Surely this is the final sign of the apocalyse and Jason is about to be crowned Emperor of the Megaverse. Either that or the entire universe is about to colapse into a singularity the size of Tim.
I have tried Netscape, IE, Opera, and Firefox. I'll take Firefox over any of the others. It appears to be more secure, stable and loads as fast as Opera.
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I've been using Firefox for a while now, even without additional themes, extensions, and mods it's an easy to use program, A billion times better than Internet Exploder.
Anyways, the wierd windows bug I experienced happened yesterday. I downloaded a program called Fraps that lets you record video of D3D and OpenGL video games. anyways, It worked once, and the next day I tried to fire it up and it cause Windows to crash. All the icons, and the taskbar disappeared, leaving only my wallpaper. I left it for about 10 minutes to see if it would return to normal, eventually I had to reboot. When I restarted windows it tells me that Fraps has become corrupted. WTF! so I completely uninstalled it, deleted the folder, the install files, and, all the registry entries and tried it again, same thing. I dunno what the hell's wrong with it all of a sudden.
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I was talking about that thing where XP remembers the contents of your folders to speed things up. It's called the, er, oh yeah, indexing service.
Now, with this sort of thing there's normally a way of clearing it. Which I can't find. But you can't go far wrong with right clicking on your drive and unticking the "use idexing service" box. Untick the "compress drive" box too, if that's ticked.
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quote:Originally posted by Nim: The reason I'm sticking with IE is because I spent an evening trying out FF at a friend's comp and we spent half the time in IE anyway, as many of the sites we visited didn't work properly in FF. ... As for sites that don't work properly in Firefox, many swedish university websites weren't built for both IE and Netscape (and in that extension, FF), so fontsizes and borders can get screwed up there.
One problem-site me and my friends often happen upon is for the university of S�dert�rn, http://webappo.web.sh.se/. They've said they are working on improving it, so I don't know if it works better now.
They look pretty much exactly the same to me, despite my overzealously compressed jpeg comparison
Also, unless you're like the best student ever, I kind of doubt you spend half of your Internet time on Swedish university websites.
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Well Liam, I implemented most of the tips shown on that page you linked to, it seemed to have made the comp more lean and such, especially after disabling all the superflous services in the background. I don't think the hangups happen as frequently either.
Something strange happened in the process though, I can't get thumbnail previews on any of my video files. When I go to my video-directory none of the files (wmv/mov/mpeg/avi) show anything but the company logo. But I do have the folder in "Thumbnail"-mode.
How does one turn "show video-thumbnails" back on?
Also, I think the .mov-files (quicktime right?) never showed thumbnails to begin with, is there any way one could "force" them to show a thumbnail? Any hotfixes roaming the net?
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Can you still play the files OK? Only time I ever saw that was on a new PC, after I'd copied my vidfiles over, but before I installed the codecs.
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