journal: win
Whats The Deal With My Firefox?
So why is the newest version of Firefox taking so long to open?
Double-click (start watch) 1...5....7.......29.......1:24 STOP! OK, so i just started Firefox on my gaming rig, which doesn’t have an internet connection. I had previously configured Firefox to open to a blank page. So why is the newest version of Firefox taking so long to open? Some might say that this is because I was using a PC. Wrong! I used my church’s G5 tower to run the same test of launching Firefox and got a final time of about one minute, and you Mac users know that that’s a LONG time. So why is Firefox so slow nowadays? On top of that the previous stable version popped up with “Unresponsive Script” warnings. so one again i wondered what was wrong with Firefox. I have used it for about six yars. So why is it letting me down now?
I decided to investigate. So i cruised over to the best search engine on the net.... GOOGLE!! Once there i searched for “Firefox issues”. Clicking on the first link, I was sent to a website named “Mozilla”. This was a good sign. Looking around the seeming familiar page layout (looks like Wikipedia), I found some useful answers as to why Firefox might be having issues. Mozilla offered several reasons to explain why the browser hangs at the start. Their solution to browser hands was this:
“It has been reported recently that malicious web pages with extremely long titles can fill the browsing history file “history.dat” with so much information that Mozilla Suite and…
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Did Microsoft pull Vista RC2? [UPDATED x2]
From the “The case of the Vanishing Vista!” desk…
It seems that Microsoft has pulled Windows Vista RC2; that or we’re blind or missed the memo or something. Following the widely circulated URL for the Vista RC2 download page leads us back to the Windows Vista homepage, which proudly proclaims that Windows Vista RC1 is available. What?
I found this out by trying to follow the download link in this tutorial for installing Vista RC2 on a Mac using Boot Camp. The only problem is, no RC2. Anyone know where Vista RC2 went?
UPDATE: As a comment below notes, RC2 was a more limited release. However, it stuck us as odd that it was so unceremoniously pulled without a mention that the RC2 program was over.
UPDATE 2: WindowsITPro has infromation explaining why Vista RC2 is no longer available.
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Last Chance: Final Release Candidate of Vista on Friday
Friday will mark the last Release Candidate for Windows Vista. According to DailyTech, it will be released for “...beta testers, MSDN and TechNet subscribers.” The final code of Vista will then be set by November 8 at the latest (hey, the day before my birthday!)
You know I’ll be first in line Friday to download build 5743. I’ll try and write something about it. Hopefully they get all of the icons replaced, as they are so close, but there are a couple prominent ones that need to be changed out.
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20 Reasons The World despises Norton Anti-Virus
Do i have a virus or is my computer just gooey???
In the beginning… well, I’ll stay away from that mess of evolution vs. intelligent design. Let’s start back when the Internet began. So there Al Gore was; supposedly he invented this thing called the Internet. Then some other college kid got bored and decided “Hey! I’m going to delete crucial code from a program until it crashes my computer!” Thus, the first virus was born. Ever since then, more and more Windows users have been placing viruses on the Internet, and every person with a PC is running around like a chicken with its head cut off in fear. Then came the good guys; yes, anti-virus software. Until one day a company named Symantec made Norton. Then the good became the bad. Norton turned the tide for PC users… until after it was installed on their computer. At that point they wondered, “Do I have a virus or is my computer just gooey?” Unbeknownst to them, their computer was infected, infected by the disinfector. Norton anti-virus sucks, and the world despises it. Why is it around? Because Compaq bundles it with their PCs. Geek Squad at Best Buy hands it out to old ladies who can’t even get their monitors on, and Al Gore used it to make his slide show of idiocy (look, I apologize for the Gore jokes. From now on, I’ll only make fun of the French.) With the history laid, here are the top twenty reasons why the world despises Norton.
20. Having to type in your…
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Windows Vista - the accumulation of everything ripped-off.
I finally took a dive into Vista with RC1, as it seemed that every disk image of Beta 2 I tried getting previously was corrupted.
I wanted to give Vista the opportunity of a doubt,
I thought it would be so much better than XP,
but, honestly - with the few minutes I spent with Vista (after more than an hour of installation and around 10 reboots later) feels like it’s simply a theme for XP (a nicer theme than the Fisher Price default theme on XP), with an entire collection of things ripped-off from others. Innovative indeed.
From the few minutes I was able to stand Vista, here’s how I feel:
Gadgets is most definitely Konfabulator - err I mean Yahoo Widgets.
IE7 is most definitely Safari.
The theme feels like a theme on Linux with some OS X Flavoring.
The forced dialog screens (where the entire screen goes black except for a password screen or dialog box) are annoying as all hell - altho I do like it for some people that tend to ignore them, there should be a way for advanced users to turn it off!
As it’s not an official release I can’t really complain about this, but I swear none of my stuff works on it! I did an upgrade from XP and I got about 10 “Insert the CD for X software”. Even my games wouldn’t work! So after poking at XP for a few minutes I ended up playing Solitaire, as it seems…
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more stuff
- Whats The Deal With My Firefox?
- Did Microsoft pull Vista RC2? [UPDATED x2]
- Last Chance: Final Release Candidate of Vista on Friday
- 20 Reasons The World despises Norton Anti-Virus
- Windows Vista - the accumulation of everything ripped-off.
- Korean Air bans Apple and Dell notebooks
- Vista to ship January 30--or so Amazon claims
- Pre-RC1 version of Windows Vista available to Public
- ARG I Hate WINDOWS XP!!!!
- Ink-spirimenting in Inkscape
- Microsoft Acquires iView Multimedia
- WinFS is dead
- Photoshop is in the fonts
- Taking the Plunge: The Biggest Beta Trial I’ve Ever Done
- Steve Balmer defeated by Malware
- Steve Balmer defeated by Malware
- Help Me! Problem Solved
- Semi-Case Study: Which Windows browser is the biggest memory hog?
- Office 12 on Vista Screenies [UPDATED]
- Visual Studio 2005 Express Now Free Forever
- First on DT: Tevanian to join Vista development team
- Dell Buys Alienware and Announces Pricing on XPS 600 Renegade
- Windows Vista delayed--yet again
- XvsXP.com Relaunches
- Google Earth for Windows
- Versions in Future are Less Confusing Than They Appear
- Microsoft announces Vista editions
- Will Apple Adopt Windows? Not even when hell freezes over!
- Internet Explorer 7 beta available
- Google Earth Out of Beta
- Adobe releases beta of Aperture competitor
- A Very Vista Wishlist
- Dell issues battery recall
- RIP Macromedia
- A quick guide to cleaning out a Windows install
- My Windows User Experience
- The realism continues…
- Is Apple Prepared for Vista?
- Microsoft Codename Max
- Next eBay Purchase: Skype
- The World’s First 19” Laptop Is Here
- WinFS demo on Channel 9
- Intel Canning Lower-End Chipsets
- Microsft and Google Face Off at Golden Penguin Bowl
- Konfabulator Developer Sold to Yahoo! [UPDATED]
- A Room With a View
- Windows Vista: Possibly the dumbest name for an OS ever…
- Microsoft announces Longhorn will be called Windows Vista
- Why I Hate Musicmatch
- Microsoft issues a raft of security updates
- Microsoft to revamp Digital Music strategy
- Apple and Intel Gang up against Microsoft?
- Upgrade from XP Home to Pro, for free
- Mac site of the week: Mac OS X vs. Windows XP (XvsXP.com)
- Netscape 8 is out
- Netscape 8 Review
- Konfabulator 2.0 released
- Rant: I hate shell replacements!
- MSN Desktop Search goes final
- Speculation: will Windows go PowerPC?
- This gave me a chuckle…
- Microsoft finishes Windows Mobile 2005
- XvsXP begins posting Tiger updates, new XP info
- Thurrott declares Latest Longhorn “train wreck”
- More on Adobe and Macromedia
- Get Windows XP x64 Edition for Free
- New Longhorn Screenshots
- Email to Paul Thurrott
- Adobe Acquires Macromedia
- Microsoft fixes critical holes in Windows
- New European XP version named
- Microsoft to give away Windows x64
- Why can’t skins have useful features?
- 1 millionth Tablet PC sold!
- Microsoft comissions six new fonts for Longhorn
- Intel to release 64bit Celerons
- Windows XP x64 RC2 released to General Public
- IE unaffected by major security flaw
- Windows x64 mini review
- TMO: Spotlight not WinFS wannabe
- Windows XP x64 RC1 released to General Public
- Windows x64 release date?
- Mobile Semprons go on sale
- Microsoft releases Avalon Framework
- Apple opens Irish iTunes store
- .NET and C# - hints at a possible future?
- Deep Thought PC now open
- Mozilla’s Lightning to strike Outlook
- Paint.NET
- iTMS comes to Canada--at last
- Apple retail finally coming to Canada
