Just started today. Cleared Cache, cookies, history and even reinstalled FireFox and I can't login to my Hotmail account or do hardly anything else in Firefox without it crashing. WTF? Java problems?
Anyone else having this?
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Dec. 23, 2009 12:36 p.m. PHeller HalfDork
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Dec. 23, 2009 12:50 p.m. BoxheadTim HalfDork
Working fine here (3.5.6 on a Mac). Just logged into my hotmail account, no problems.
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Dec. 23, 2009 1:51 p.m. PHeller HalfDork
If all of these years of working on computers has taught me anythings it's that A) someone else has had the same problem and posted it online and B) patience is all it takes to solve the problem
All I did was restart my computer and do some digging for the old bookmarks file and tada, back to normal.
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Dec. 23, 2009 3:35 p.m. aircooled SuperDork
PHeller wrote:
....All I did was restart my computer...
The solutions to most computer problems.
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Dec. 23, 2009 4:14 p.m. ReverendDexter Dork
aircooled wrote:
PHeller wrote:
....All I did was restart my computer...
The solutions to most Windows computer problems.
Fixed that for you.
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Dec. 23, 2009 4:26 p.m. Woody SuperDork
Firefox was screwing me up for a month or so, but I got an update about three days ago that seemed to have straightened things out.
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Dec. 25, 2009 10:46 a.m. PHeller HalfDork
Problems haven't stopped. Whatever is going on, it came back after the reinstall. I think its a virus because the computer has been running really slow the last couple of days and sounds like it's opening Photoshop and ArcMap at the same time, when all I am doing is browsing on Firefox.
This is unusual because for the past 4 years the computer has ran very quickly with a 10,000RPM boot harddrive and a very fast, very big newer secondary drive.
I am debating moving to Windows 7 while I can get a student discount, but would like to keep Photoshop and Office 2007,but of which I've lost my keys and cds for.
How do I go about keeping programs that I know longer have the CD's for?
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Dec. 25, 2009 8:02 p.m. wherethefmi Dork
Insert the 7 disk while in vista, then it can install while keeping your programs atleast that's what I've heard.
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Dec. 25, 2009 8:17 p.m. orphancars New Reader
PHeller -- I had the SAME exact problems as you. Faithful user of Fierfox for years and then all of a sudden -- whammo, frequent crashes, as many as 3~5 in a day. No update, fix, etc seemed to solve the problem. And this was on a XP Pro machine with a quad core proc and 4 GB of memory -- I'm SURE the hardware wasn't an issue.
The only fix I found was to switch to Chrome............and whaddaya know, no problems since!
YMMV, etc,
-jeff d
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Dec. 25, 2009 10:54 p.m. PHeller HalfDork
Except that I'd like to keep my FireFox bookmarks, can Chrome do that? I've heard Chrome isn't perfect either.
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Dec. 26, 2009 12:00 a.m. PHeller HalfDork
What gets me is that Firefox seems to be the only affected. Internet Explorer hums along fine, SpyBot S&D works fine, and other programs work good too.
As soon as Firefox is stared, it hits the fan. When FireFox crashes, it slows the computer down to a creep. Even in Safe mode Firefox still gets rammed.
Me thinks its a virus that is going unnoticed.
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Dec. 26, 2009 12:47 p.m. donalson SuperDork
ReverendDexter wrote:
aircooled wrote:
PHeller wrote:
....All I did was restart my computer...
The solutions to most Windows computer problems.
Fixed that for you.
which applies to MOST computers right?... sorry but Unix based stuff (which includes mac and linux) just doesn't have near the numbers... from a stat I saw recently 95% of web surfers use a windows based machine... obviously MOST problems are going to be with a windows box...
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Dec. 28, 2009 1:43 p.m. turboswede SuperDork
ReverendDexter wrote:
aircooled wrote:
PHeller wrote:
....All I did was restart my computer...
The solutions to most Windows computer problems.
Fixed that for you.
Funny my iPhone needs to be restarted about once a week and it is a solution recommended by Apple themselves. So how about you pull your head out and realize that its just software man, just be impressed at how much it does with being written by some poor monkey's who are managed by another bunch of useless monkeys.
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Dec. 28, 2009 2:00 p.m. Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork
donalson wrote:
which applies to MOST computers right?... sorry but Unix based stuff (which includes mac and linux) just doesn't have near the numbers...
It has the ones the count:
walter@e36m3:$ uname -a
Linux e36m3 2.6.31-16-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Tue i686 GNU/Linux
walter@e36m3:$ uptime
2:57pm up 182 days 19:21, 1 user, load average: 0.22, 0.08, 0.01
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Dec. 28, 2009 2:18 p.m. knb13 New Reader
turboswede wrote:
Funny my iPhone needs to be restarted about once a week and it is a solution recommended by Apple themselves. So how about you pull your head out and realize that its just software man, just be impressed at how much it does with being written by some poor monkey's who are managed by another bunch of useless monkeys.
thats the same thing Verizon told me about my Blackberry... you need to pull the battery at least once a week to keep things moving smoothly.
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Dec. 28, 2009 3:44 p.m. donalson SuperDork
yup linux, i've dabbled myself... and when you are doing hosting and such it's perfect... :) low resources, open source so you can have it do only what you need it to do and it'll still run on/in anything you want if you can do the programing. not something you can do with mac last i saw
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Dec. 28, 2009 5:18 p.m. PHeller HalfDork
I got my key codes via Belarc Advisor, but I've got no idea how to put Photoshop CS2 on a disc. I found my Office 2007 disc, luckily.
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Dec. 28, 2009 5:32 p.m. donalson SuperDork
awesome I didn't even know you could pull the old keys like that :)
for CS2... I'm sure you could find an iso from a torrent somewhere
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Dec. 28, 2009 7:07 p.m. Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork
donalson wrote:
yup linux, i've dabbled myself... and when you are doing hosting and such it's perfect... :) low resources, open source so you can have it do only what you need it to do and it'll still run on/in anything you want if you can do the programing. not something you can do with mac last i saw
Its on my server, desktop, development machine and my Mom's machine. The Mrs rocks a Macbook because she is a photographer and her fat-cat clients expect it. In general, since its Unix I'm satisfied. Like cleaning ladies everywhere... we don't do Windows
