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janetj1968

janetj1968

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I have a great firewall (Zone Alarm), nice Antivirus (Symantec Endpoint) and I use Ad-aware, CC Cleaner are Bytes often. So I don't think I have any viruses, trojans and the like.

But I've started using IE more because the flash in Firefox is spazzing with a lot of hangs. It clears up after a minute of spinning, but its irritating.

IE seems more stable at the moment...but I'm having a problem with links and buttons. I have to right click most links to get them to copy...and then manually paste to go to a linked page. Buttons like "attachments" in threads don't work either.

Do I have some type of bad setting somewhere or why is this so flaky????
 
Jan:

I assume you're using XP.

Dump Zone Alarm and enable your windows firewall (it's as good).

Dump Ad-aware and use Malwarebytes, it is MUCH better and faster.

CCLeaner is a good optimizer (cleans up registry (dead DLLs) and temp files, uninstall leftover junk, etc and is quiet good. A good tool

As to slowness of Firefox / Flash, yes, it has become a pain lately, but it does say you should upgrade the to the latest Flashplayer and then it works almost as fast as before, but does slow down occasionally still.

When I REALLY want to surf fast, I fire up Chrome, it is a speed demon!!.

I use Chrome extension / add-on SpeedDial (see below) to open any website I want in a fraction of a second (right click on each icon and select Open in a new tab).

It really opens each website in less than 2 milliseconds!!

Speeddial.jpg


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I'm actually on Windows 7. Does that change anything????

Now you have me looking at another browser.... ;) Cool!
 
I second Chrome, very nice and smooth and improves Facebook 100%
 
I would recommend getting adblock plus or flashblock for firefox. Flash ain't slow if it's not loaded.

On win 7, I have also noticed that firefox seems to leak memory like a sieve. After it gets to about 500 MB, firefox starts to get slow loading pages and such. So, I need to restart the browser periodically. Though I do have it set to save and restore tabs, so I don't lose anything.
 
janetj1968 said:
I'm actually on Windows 7. Does that change anything????
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If you're using a 64 bit browser, the problem is that Flash is only suitable for 32 bit browsers. Adobe has a released a preview version of Flash called 'Square' that you can download.
I only use Firefox, which is only available in 32 bit and flash crashes it regularly. I suspect that may because I have Win7 64 bit.

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/000/6b3af6c9.html


 
I also second Chrome. It "just works". We run Windows 7 on 4 of our machines (all 64-bit versions) & Flash works fine on all of them.

I long ago gave up on IE and Firefox. Buggy, sluggish & more trouble than they're worth (IMO).

I never trusted Windows built in security, though it's clearly better than nothing. We use Norton Security Suite that comes free with Comcast. Zone Alarm used to be good but seemed to get buggy and unacceptably slow over time.
 
I've been really happy with ZA, but I have the paid edition and not the free one. It's blocked lots of things that Windows Firewall didn't.

But now I'm playing with Chrome! And I think I like it...

:)

Thanks, everyone!
 
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