Adding the Adblock extension. It seems that quite a few people have had this problem after different Firefox upgrades, and someone somewhere serendipitously added Adblock. There were forums of messages like this: "At this point, I'll try anything." "Eureka! It worked!"
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Ginger - Dec 18, 2011 4:09:02 am PST #18910 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Consuela - Dec 18, 2011 7:26:37 am PST #18911 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Consuela, why don't you just archive or delete the things you've already read?
I have done, but... I'm a completist. I like having all my music on my iPod, and who knows whether I might need to look up something in the KJV at a moment's notice?
... Okay, yeah. It's just a thing. Also the new Kindles are a lot lighter and smaller.
Ginger - Dec 18, 2011 7:28:20 am PST #18912 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I've only had the Nook two weeks, and I'm already thinking, "If I were trapped somewhere for days, I could read all the Oz books."
Consuela - Dec 18, 2011 7:35:57 am PST #18913 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
and I'm already thinking, "If I were trapped somewhere for days, I could read all the Oz books."
Exactly!
In fact, I got the whole run of Young Wizards on Black Friday, and read them all in the last two weeks. It was awesome.
Jon B. - Dec 18, 2011 7:55:55 am PST #18914 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Adding the Adblock extension.
That doesn't seem too weird. I can imagine poorly coded ads that radically slow down the loading of pages. I have a flash blocking extension for the same reason.
Ginger - Dec 18, 2011 8:10:34 am PST #18915 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I can see how it would work, but it was taking me multiple tries even to open b.org. I'd already disabled DNS prefetching.
Strix - Dec 18, 2011 8:11:36 am PST #18916 of 25501
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Huh. Maybe Adblock is why my computer is slower than an one-legged grandma running from a tiger.
Jessica - Dec 18, 2011 10:51:56 am PST #18917 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I should be able to figure this out myself, but...
The original Star Wars was transferred from laserdisc onto DVD and they never corrected the aspect ratio - it's letterboxed in a 4:3 frame. So on my 16:9 TV, it's got a black band all the way around. It's the correct aspect ratio for the TV, but hovering in the middle of the screen. The Zoom button doesn't seem to do anything. Any clever ideas?
Jessica - Dec 18, 2011 10:58:51 am PST #18918 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
AHA. Thank you, manual. For some reason the "screen aspect" button isn't on any of my Harmony menus. All zoomed in now.
Tom Scola - Dec 18, 2011 10:59:35 am PST #18919 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
You've got a Mac hooked up to your TV, right? The Mac DVD player will let you zoom in.