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Anyone having bad slowdowns with Firefox 2.0.0.1 under Windows (XP in my case)?
Me, neither.
In similar news, I spent 45 minutes on the phone with my mom last night trying to diagnose the slowed to molassesness of her computer. She suspects it is AVG, which has been bugging her to pay for it. I gave her the URL for AVG-free 30 days ago, and I suspect she downloaded the pay version by mistake, but even so, that shouldn't slow her machine to a crawl. (Although if it stopped working, then perhaps the machine got massively infected.)
It's so slow that the Start button is unresponsive, so we couldn't get to the control panel to try add/remove. I even managed to teach her how to boot into safe mode, but it was just as bad. She's taking it to the nice fellows at the computer repair shop today.
Thanks, DX. I'll make those changes on my machines ASAP.
Anyone having bad slowdowns with Firefox 2.0.0.1 under Windows (XP in my case)?
Totally. I really really regret upgrading. I keep having to crash the process because I can't do *anything* if I use FF as heavily as I normally do. Is there an easy way to downgrade?
How to setup and manage multiple Firefox profiles for the same user: [link]
With Buffy examples!
If you share a computer with family members or roommates, or if you simply browse for different reasons - like work, blogging, school research, or play - you may want to use different Firefox settings each time you sit down to surf. Luckily, the Firefox profile manager can manage multiple browsing personalities for a single user on the same desktop.
Sounds odd enough to maybe be a virus, OTOH, it's almost never actually a virus. Sort of like the first diagnosis on House.
That's not very reassuring.
It's probably worth it to do a virus scan like with (http://housecall.trendmicro.com/) if you don't have a scanner. When that doesn't turn out to be the problem, I'd probably try to reinstall Excel.
Okay, late last night, our TV crapped out completely. With a pop/fizzle, something inside the box blew and the TV is no more.
We want to go buy a new one today.
I've been looking at prices online, and Sears is having some pretty good sales today, and I checked Fry's because they're sometimes cheaper than anywhere else, but not on TVs. Best Buy and Circuit City have all always seemed a little expensive to me.
Can anybody give good advice on where to get the best price on a 30-32 inch flatscreen? Do the websites not give truly representative prices, do I need to hit each store in person to find the best price, and then go back to the place with the best price?
I know that being sans teevee for a few weeks might not be an option, but if you wait until President's Day weekend, there will likely be sales.
I can't wait that long.
I should wait that long.
DAMN YOU, STUPID TV! Why couldn't you have waited just a couple weeks more to crap out??????
Actually Best Buy has been running some decent deals with the lead up to the Superbowl. Also, you should really go into some stores and look at the picture on the TV's you are considering. They can vary pretty widely.
