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Skriven 2011-11-26 16:58:00 av Dave Drum (56874.cooking)
  Kommentar till text 18255 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: firefox problems
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-=> MICHAEL LOO wrote to ALL <=-

 ML> Having some idle time, I upgraded Firefox and
 ML> discovered two things. Now it loads multiple
 ML> instances of plugin-container.exe, clogging up
 ML> my task manager. Okay, I followed the instructions
 ML> that you can find on the Internet to prevent this
 ML> from running at all, losing whatever benefits the
 ML> program is supposed to offer; I see no problem
 ML> that has come of this.

 ML> The more annoying phenomenon is that firefox.exe
 ML> refuses to unload when I close its window and
 ML> prevents a new instance from opening when I want
 ML> to go back online. I have to go to the task
 ML> manager and manually close each instance of it
 ML> (sometimes more than one loads) before I can
 ML> reload it to get a working browser window.

There may be something on your confuser that needs tweaked. The only time my
Firefox does that is if it is crashed from outside because I am trying to run
too many tasks at once and they trip over each other. Only then, when I get a
notification that "Firefox is already running ... " do I have to go into
processes and kill off the Firefox.exe, enduring the Micro$not nastygrams and
warnings.
 
 ML> The new version I "upgraded" to is 7.0.1.

 ML> 1. Is there a way of finding out what version I
 ML> used to have and downgrading to that?

www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all-older.html and get v3.6.22 (which is the
latest that worked "right".

I hate it when I let myself get stampeded into "upgrading" and things down work
the way I have very carefully tailored them to work ... and worse, useful
outside utilities *break* on the new software.

I really liked the look and feel of v3.6.xx - so much so that I run it on my
laptop and netbook (Linux). That being said - I run v8.01 on this desktop ...
except I am getting all my bookmarks, etc. moved over to Opera and will soon
make that my default browser. Once again I will say "scroom" to the Mozilla
folkers.

BTW - to do a real job on retrograding to 3.6.xx uninstall using the Windoze
uninstaller, then wipe out the entire directory that is left behind (after
saving your bookmarks and passwords somewhere) else your "old" program will not
have the look and feel it should.

Oh, yeah, disable the update reminders/notifications in your older version of
Firefox else it will nag you endlessly, incessantly, forever more, trying to
browbeat you into "upgrading" because of some mythical "security and stability
issues".
 
 ML> 2. What's gotten into the heads of these developers
 ML> and programmers? The thing now chews up 50 Meg of
 ML> RAM to start and continues to grab more even when
 ML> it isn't called upon to do anything. And that
 ML> plug-in container thing that loads with every
 ML> plugin and doesn't unload when the plugin goes away,
 ML> inexcusable.

 ML> I'm positing Microsoft-paid saboteurs in the ranks
 ML> of the programmers. Internet Explorer doesn't have
 ML> these problems (of course, Firefox never did before,
 ML> for me) and loads into 1/3 the RAM. Whoa there, Mozilla!
 ML> When your stuff uses 3x the resources of the Microsoft
 ML> product, there's something seriously wrong.

Test fly both Opera and Google Chrome before you give in to the dark side
(Internet Exploder). I prefer Opera over Chrome - but ymmv.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Grand Operas, Nuts
 Categories: Candies, Chocolate, Dairy
      Yield: 12 Servings
 
      2 c  Sugar
    2/3 c  Heavy cream
      1 c  Milk
    1/4 c  Corn syrup
    1/4 ts Salt
    1/2 ts Vanilla extract
      1 c  Pecan meats, broken
      4 oz Semi-sweet chocolate
 
  In heavy sauce pan, combine sugar, cream, syrup, and salt.

  Heat until sugar dissolves and the mixture comes to a
  boil, stirring constantly. Continue cooking until candy
  forms a soft ball in cold water. Remove from heat and add
  vanilla and nuts. Beat until candy thickens and loses its
  gloss.

  Turn at once into a buttered square or rectangular pan.

  Heat chocolate in top of double boiler until partly
  melted. Remove from heat and stir rapidly until entirely
  melted. Pour chocolate over candy. Cool until firm and cut
  into individual squares.
 
  From: http://www.recipesource.com

  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

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