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Clean update! Everything's working fine
![]() 1. Unfortunately, the start up time has increased again! I think it's because of the plugin container.exe stuff which run later when you click on flash content. I'm not sure...I've added no new plugins in the last one month or so.... Right now, Mozilla's top priority would be to improve the start up time. They can worry about tabs on top or other stuff later on! I don't know...I also think that Firefox is not customized for Windows. That could be the reason for the delay in start up time. I tried out K-meleon and the start up is much faster. Here's a quote for Wikipedia for the k-meleon browser: Quote:
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Startup time for Firefox has always been more than other browsers, so there is nothing new with it. Just the first startup is more, the later startup times are much lower. But, I can live with that... because Firefox works well for me.
Yes, there is difference in Firefox and K-Meleon. You can read about K-Meleon in detail here, which was written by a person who develops extensions for K-Meleon : http://www.techsupportalert.com/free...d-history.html Here are some tests done on different browsers, including K-Meleon : http://www.techsupportalert.com/free...w-browser.html And here is my experience with K-Meleon : http://www.techsupportalert.com/free...b-browser.html If you want to discuss on K-Meleon further, please start a new topic.
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Hi,
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffpreloader/ It's quite old, so I don't know if it'll work on any Windows later than Win XP. 26Dolphins |
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My Firefox update has been prompting me to install a new Adobe Flash. The problem is that this Flash update seems to come with something called "getPlusPlus". From what I gather, this is a marketing aid of some sort. Have any of you had bad experiences with this? I've decided to keep my "vulnerable" version of Flash until I determine whether this is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
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my computer and got rid of it using HJT but you can also uninstall it from"Add or remove programs". It s better to update flash and get rid of the thing later than to keep the vulnerable old version, so do the update as soon as possible. Just my opinion my friend. Bo |
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I might be wrong but I feel that my FF is consuming less memory on this
new version. Last night I was on Youtube for a couple of hours and the memory on the container was at 30 MB at its highest and FF had about 100 MB. In the past probably that would have been about 200 to 250MB, so this thing might be good for my computer. Cold starts are probably a little worst but afterward is good. Bo |
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Thanks Anupam!
@bo.elam: Yes, cold starts are the worst for Firefox. Regarding the flash plugin, it is a bit of a pain since: 1. Adobe tries to stuff their updater thingy (Adobe DLM) as a Firefox addon. Not a good idea ![]() 2. Otherwise, they even try to stuff McAfee (Oh God!) as a free AV Scanner. No thank you. Here is the direct link for you guys who are interested: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashp...ort/index.html (scroll to the bottom of the page for both the links) Not a best practice at all, Adobe for hiding useful links! and one more thing: Please ensure that you've checked the box under "options=> Security" which says "Warn me when sites try to install add ons" (if you've not already done so) and then click on the "exceptions" tab and remove all of the exceptions so that addons from any site cannot be installed without your permission. ![]() |
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