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June 5th, 2005

Technical questions

Just in case there are any technical wizards reading who would like to give me the benefit of thereir wisdom.

1) Junk e-mail
There seems to have been a rapid increase in the last 3 or 4 days. Is it the summer weather that brings them out? I know, I need to get some spray.

2) Firefox
I love the Firefox browser. But it is entirely appalling in a couple of areas. One, reading pdfs in the browser itself. I really try not to but some websites don’t tell you that a link is a pdf and one clicks it rather than downloading the file. The computer sometimes recovers, sometimes doesn’t. Two. It is sooooo sluggish sometimes after you’ve hibernated and re-unhibernated the computer. Is Firefox incompatible with hibernating? Or is it me?

3) Norton Internet security 2005
Maddie_C’s new computer from PC World has this pre-installed and she doesn’t want it. But, Norton doesn’t appear in add/remove programmes and the Symantec help site just assumes it does. Does this mean it can’t be uninstalled, thereby making using the computer a very annoying experience for the rest of its life, or is there a way?

Update: I have found this page, but I’m dubious about it as once again it assumes you have tried ‘add / remove programmes’ first.

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  1. Tim says:

    Don’t know about hibernating, though it’s full winter here now I don’t get much chance to hibernate, and if I don’t why should the laptop?

    But PDFs, don’t get me started! I wish someone from the FF development team would read this, it is the one (or perhaps if hibernation is counted two) that spoils a great Browser.

    June 6th, 2005 at 9:00 am
  2. Simo says:

    Spam is a pain one way to cut down is to use forms running with CGI then robots can’t harvest your address, I’m afraid that’s about as far as I have got with trying to sort out some stuff I am doing.
    Firefox, make sure you are running the latest of both Firefox and Acrobat Reader, this should fix the problem, it did for me. Hibernation I think is just you! As for internet security I don’t know about that one I’m afraid but it is good software worth having!

    June 6th, 2005 at 10:22 am
  3. Wood says:

    Firefox does that on my computer too. I also have Norton… A connection?

    June 6th, 2005 at 5:35 pm
  4. Dave says:

    Actually the Firefox problem isn’t just when the computer hibernates, it’s at other random times as well. Like just now when Firefox was using 102000K of the ‘memory usage’ under task manage/processes compared with a max of 9000K for any other programme. Why? I really don’t want to go back to IE but Firefox has been getting so unreliable. And yes, I always get the latest updates.

    Simo, as far as I know my e-mail account with the problem isn’t out there on any webpages in an unprotected form. There are for instance no Wibsite pages which take emails and display them in a harvestable manner. So its just more spam from old lists I think.

    Also, I’d take issue with you about Norton being good software I’m afraid. There are free alternatives that quite simply work better – AVG is the one I use. A computer I know very well died and another got a virus because (regularly updated) Norton quite simply didn’t / couldn’t do its job.

    Wood – the Norton and firefox problems are different computers so I don’t think they are related in my case.

    June 6th, 2005 at 9:39 pm
  5. Westplastic says:

    There’s a work around for your pdf problem. This extension Lets you choose whether to download or view in the browser any pdf file link that you accidentally click on.

    November 9th, 2005 at 1:29 pm