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Never used WiFi. Win7 crashed about 1/5 as often as XP.
Now using Win 10. It's the cat's meow. Best yet. So far.

I have XP machines here that go months between reboots. I am not sure
what you were doing to crash XP but it is not a problem for me. My
software stays pretty static tho.

I really use my machines. Software and games.

Let's see how your 10 runs when you accumulate the same amount of junk
as the average web browsing XP machine accumulated over a half dozen
years or so.

Nah. It doesn't collect junk. My imaging strategy
prevents it.
Of course, MS might break it with updates, but they haven't
done so with other versions.

Keyser Söze wrote:
On 10/8/15 7:10 AM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 7 Oct 2015 19:28:00 -0700, Califbill billnews wrote:

wrote:
On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 20:04:21 -0400, John H.
wrote:

When in Chrome, if I type a line for a search, like 'email links do not work in
Chrome', it just churns but never gives results.

Ideas out there?

Why didn't you just inject yourself with the ebola virus?
Google is evil. The NSA has nothing on them.

No ****. Chrome's gone.

===

I'm curious in knowing why you tried Chrome. I've been using Firefox
for a long time and have never found it lacking anything I needed.


Every time my youngest daughters husband visits, I have to kill Chrome on
the IMac. He does not understand courtesy dictates you do not t add
software to someone else's system, without asking.

THAT would **** me off. For damn sure it would happen only once.

Maybe a password on Windows?
--

It's easy enough to block "guest" accounts from downloading software on
Mac and even on Windoze computers.



I realize that, but you think a 40 year old with a masters would have at
least a little sense.

On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 09:24:35 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 10/8/2015 7:09 AM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 21:31:50 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 20:04:21 -0400, John H.
wrote:

When in Chrome, if I type a line for a search, like 'email links do not work in
Chrome', it just churns but never gives results.

Ideas out there?

Why didn't you just inject yourself with the ebola virus?
Google is evil. The NSA has nothing on them.

No ****. Chrome's gone.

===

I'm curious in knowing why you tried Chrome. I've been using Firefox
for a long time and have never found it lacking anything I needed.

I have been having an on-going problem trying to get Firefox to play videos. Often
I'll click a link only to get a black screen, and very often I'll get a window
popping up telling me my 'Flash Player' isn't working. I've reloaded the damn thing a
dozen times, but that's never seemed to help.

HOWEVER - when I tried to get that window to pop up just now, by clicking on various
links, I couldn't get it. Maybe installing and uninstalling Chrome fixed my Firefox
problem.

Or, maybe I just need a new computer!
--

Ban idiots, not guns!


John, try this:

Next time you have a problem loading or watching a video using Firefox,
hold down the "shift" key and, at the same time, click on the "reload
current page" icon. It's the half, counterclockwise circle with an
arrow in the right side of the URL address field.

What this does is bypasses the "cache" and stops your computer from
trying to load it into the cache. Once in a while I've had a video that
will start and stop a bit when playing. I just do the above and
it then works fine.


Just tried that with a preview from Redbox. When I hit the 'return' button, it took
me back to the page with the link for the preview.

I'd reinstalled the latest Adobe Flash player only a couple hours ago. I think it's
just a Firefox problem - one which many folks are having.
--

Ban idiots, not guns!

On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:37:08 -0400, John H.
wrote:

On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 09:24:35 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 10/8/2015 7:09 AM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 21:31:50 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 20:04:21 -0400, John H.
wrote:

When in Chrome, if I type a line for a search, like 'email links do not work in
Chrome', it just churns but never gives results.

Ideas out there?

Why didn't you just inject yourself with the ebola virus?
Google is evil. The NSA has nothing on them.

No ****. Chrome's gone.

===

I'm curious in knowing why you tried Chrome. I've been using Firefox
for a long time and have never found it lacking anything I needed.

I have been having an on-going problem trying to get Firefox to play videos. Often
I'll click a link only to get a black screen, and very often I'll get a window
popping up telling me my 'Flash Player' isn't working. I've reloaded the damn thing a
dozen times, but that's never seemed to help.

HOWEVER - when I tried to get that window to pop up just now, by clicking on various
links, I couldn't get it. Maybe installing and uninstalling Chrome fixed my Firefox
problem.

Or, maybe I just need a new computer!
--

Ban idiots, not guns!


John, try this:

Next time you have a problem loading or watching a video using Firefox,
hold down the "shift" key and, at the same time, click on the "reload
current page" icon. It's the half, counterclockwise circle with an
arrow in the right side of the URL address field.

What this does is bypasses the "cache" and stops your computer from
trying to load it into the cache. Once in a while I've had a video that
will start and stop a bit when playing. I just do the above and
it then works fine.


Just tried that with a preview from Redbox. When I hit the 'return' button, it took
me back to the page with the link for the preview.

I'd reinstalled the latest Adobe Flash player only a couple hours ago. I think it's
just a Firefox problem - one which many folks are having.

===

Do you have ad blocking software? If so, I'd guess that it's an
interaction between Firefox, Fash and the ad blocker. I switched to a
different computer recently with no ad blocker and Firefox is playing
everything just fine. I'm being inundated with all sorts of
irritating ads however, some of which try to play videos over the top
of what I'm trying to watch.

On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:59:33 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:37:08 -0400, John H.
wrote:

On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 09:24:35 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 10/8/2015 7:09 AM, John H. wrote:
On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 21:31:50 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 20:04:21 -0400, John H.
wrote:

When in Chrome, if I type a line for a search, like 'email links do not work in
Chrome', it just churns but never gives results.

Ideas out there?

Why didn't you just inject yourself with the ebola virus?
Google is evil. The NSA has nothing on them.

No ****. Chrome's gone.

===

I'm curious in knowing why you tried Chrome. I've been using Firefox
for a long time and have never found it lacking anything I needed.

I have been having an on-going problem trying to get Firefox to play videos. Often
I'll click a link only to get a black screen, and very often I'll get a window
popping up telling me my 'Flash Player' isn't working. I've reloaded the damn thing a
dozen times, but that's never seemed to help.

HOWEVER - when I tried to get that window to pop up just now, by clicking on various
links, I couldn't get it. Maybe installing and uninstalling Chrome fixed my Firefox
problem.

Or, maybe I just need a new computer!
--

Ban idiots, not guns!


John, try this:

Next time you have a problem loading or watching a video using Firefox,
hold down the "shift" key and, at the same time, click on the "reload
current page" icon. It's the half, counterclockwise circle with an
arrow in the right side of the URL address field.

What this does is bypasses the "cache" and stops your computer from
trying to load it into the cache. Once in a while I've had a video that
will start and stop a bit when playing. I just do the above and
it then works fine.


Just tried that with a preview from Redbox. When I hit the 'return' button, it took
me back to the page with the link for the preview.

I'd reinstalled the latest Adobe Flash player only a couple hours ago. I think it's
just a Firefox problem - one which many folks are having.

===

Do you have ad blocking software? If so, I'd guess that it's an
interaction between Firefox, Fash and the ad blocker. I switched to a
different computer recently with no ad blocker and Firefox is playing
everything just fine. I'm being inundated with all sorts of
irritating ads however, some of which try to play videos over the top
of what I'm trying to watch.

I did install Ad Block, but this problem was around way before then.
--

Ban idiots, not guns!