Re: [SLUG] Firefox pausing

2007-07-15 Thread Heracles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Amos, Everything pauses, but if she kills Firefox then there are no further problems. I got her to move to Opera and the problem has gone away so I guess the problem is in Firefox. Not really sure why as it works fine on my machine using exactly

Re: [SLUG] Firefox pausing

2007-07-15 Thread Heracles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Steven, She gets thumbnails in Nautilus. amsn uses its own file browser which has no configuration menu that I can find. If amsn can be configured to use an outside browser, how do I tell it to do so? Heracles Steven Tucker wrote: On Fri,

Re: [SLUG] Firefox pausing

2007-07-15 Thread Amos Shapira
On 15/07/07, Heracles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Amos, Everything pauses, but if she kills Firefox then there are no further problems. I got her to move to Opera and the problem has gone away so I guess the problem is in Firefox. That's very strange. The only thing that I encountered which

Re: [SLUG] Firefox pausing

2007-07-15 Thread Martin Barry
$quoted_author = Heracles ; Everything pauses, but if she kills Firefox then there are no further problems. I got her to move to Opera and the problem has gone away so I guess the problem is in Firefox. Not really sure why as it works fine on my machine using exactly the same version -

Re: [SLUG] Firefox pausing

2007-07-15 Thread Carlo Sogono
Heracles wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Amos, Everything pauses, but if she kills Firefox then there are no further problems. I got her to move to Opera and the problem has gone away so I guess the problem is in Firefox. Not really sure why as it works fine on my

Re: [SLUG] Firefox pausing

2007-07-13 Thread Simon Males
Consider which plugin's you have, both Flash and Java? I hate flash as it is system intensive. I do use an extension call FlashBlock which allows me start Flash animations on demand. Also you mentioned the nVidia card, you didn't say if your using the proprietary driver. I find much better 2D

Re: [SLUG] Firefox pausing

2007-07-13 Thread Steven Tucker
On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 13:31 +1000, Heracles wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Simon, I'll check the cooling fans. She uses amsn and it seems to do everything she wants. The only problem is that the file browser is not configurable so she does not get thumbnails.

Re: [SLUG] Firefox pausing

2007-07-13 Thread Steven Tucker
On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 13:34 +1000, Steven Tucker wrote: On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 13:31 +1000, Heracles wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Simon, I'll check the cooling fans. She uses amsn and it seems to do everything she wants. The only problem is that the

[SLUG] Firefox pausing

2007-07-12 Thread Heracles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I have a small but annoying problem. I installed Ubuntu 7.04 on my daughter's machine (Celeron 1.7 G, 768Mb DDR333, 256Mb nVidia 6200 Compaq S720 screen) and all works OK except when she is on the net with Firefox it stalls from time to time.

Re: [SLUG] Firefox pausing

2007-07-12 Thread Dave Kempe
I heard somethings about disabling ipv6 in about:config recently. check that out... dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Firefox pausing

2007-07-12 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Heracles wrote: I have a small but annoying problem. I installed Ubuntu 7.04 on my daughter's machine (Celeron 1.7 G, 768Mb DDR333, 256Mb nVidia 6200 Compaq S720 screen) and all works OK except when she is on the net with Firefox it stalls from time to time. It

Re: [SLUG] Firefox pausing

2007-07-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
amsn is pretty horrible try gaim Dean Heracles wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Simon, I'll check the cooling fans. She uses amsn and it seems to do everything she wants. The only problem is that the file browser is not configurable so she does not get thumbnails.

Re: [SLUG] Firefox pausing

2007-07-12 Thread Heracles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Simon, I'll check the cooling fans. She uses amsn and it seems to do everything she wants. The only problem is that the file browser is not configurable so she does not get thumbnails. Heracles Rev Simon Rumble wrote: This one time, at band

Re: [SLUG] Firefox pausing

2007-07-12 Thread Jeremy Visser
Dean Hamstead wrote: amsn is pretty horrible try gaim Which has recently been renamed to Pidgin. However, Feisty's version is still called Gaim. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Firefox pausing

2007-07-12 Thread Amos Shapira
On 13/07/07, Heracles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Compaq S720 screen) and all works OK except when she is on the net with Firefox it stalls from time to time. It never did this to her under XP What exactly do you mean by stalls? The Firefox network traffic or the entire X display? --Amos --