Worth the upgrade. It has been working great for me on Windows XP and Linux since the Betas. I was having lots of problems with it on Vista, but the latest release took care of that.
Giles: I jump out of the circle, jump back in, and, and, shake my gourd. Buffy: Hey, I think I know this ritual. The ancient shamans were next called upon to do the Hokey-Pokey and to turn themselves around.
'Dirty Girls'
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Gudanov - Aug 28, 2008 7:14:32 pm PDT #7528 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
Jessica - Aug 30, 2008 5:18:44 am PDT #7529 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The only thing I dislike about Firefox 3 is that I've lost the ability to automatically open a new tab when I type in an address in the URL bar. I've become one of those people who types the URL into Google instead (because the search bar DOES automatically open a new tab).
Granted, it's been several weeks since I checked for a new version of the Tabbed Browsing extension, so my griping may be out of date.
But the real reason I came into the thread is because my internet connectivity has gone to shit over the past week. I can't recieve a full-strength wireless signal on my computer, and the Tivo can't connect at all. My router is 5-6 years old - am I right in thinking it's time to replace it?
Theodosia - Aug 30, 2008 5:37:25 am PDT #7530 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
FWIW, retighten all your connections -- that was the cause of my connection woes recently, which a new router didn't cure at all. :-)
JZ - Aug 30, 2008 6:58:34 am PDT #7531 of 25501
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Crappity. Our Firefox 2 has been crapping out, stalling out, crashing and miserying all over us for weeks now (Mac, OSX 10.4.11). After wrestling with multiple failed attempts to upgrade to 3, I just uninstalled it completely and attempted to reinstall 2, and now it won't even do that. The download begins nicely, proceeds through the "This download contains an application. Do you want to continue?" clicky-window, and then stops in the middle of the user agreement. Multiple attempts, a software update, and a restart aren't helping. It won't take 3, won't take 2, can't complete a download at all no how no way.
At first I wanted the new shiny Firefox, but now I just want our old shitty Firefox back! Help, please!
dcp - Aug 30, 2008 7:17:35 am PDT #7532 of 25501
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Which version of Firefox 2 are you re-installing? Perhaps an older version will do better. You can get them from oldapps.com: [link]
JZ - Aug 30, 2008 7:25:37 am PDT #7533 of 25501
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
It won't even finish the download. I tried all the way down to 1.5, and the download stalled out at the same point, at the very beginning of "Displaying the software license agreement."
tommyrot - Aug 30, 2008 7:30:29 am PDT #7534 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
This probably isn't it, but do you have enough hard drive space?
JZ - Aug 30, 2008 7:37:44 am PDT #7535 of 25501
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
We've got tons, 59 out of 77GB available.
dcp - Aug 30, 2008 8:11:02 am PDT #7536 of 25501
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
What browser are you using to get the download? Safari? Camino?
Consuela - Aug 30, 2008 8:22:15 am PDT #7537 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
My three-year-old Dell Inspiron laptop is beginning to give me the dreaded Blue Screen of Death occasionally over the last month or two. Usually I can restart it and it runs okay after that, but it's been increasingly slow although I rarely have more running than Firefox, Semagic, and Open Office. A couple of months ago I bought a registry optimizer and that seemed to help a bit, but the last week or so it's been crashing again.
Oh, and this machine runs on XP. I'm ascared of Vista.
Suggestions? I'm backing up my most valued data in case the whole thing just dies, but oy. Not sure what to do here. What is the expected lifetime of a laptop, anyway?