DHSinclair wrote:
Wow J. I'm both happy and confused by your reply.
more inline below.............
At 23:53 09/01/2008 -0700, you wrote:
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Sun JRE 6.0 Update 7
Shockwave Flash v9.0 r124
Sound current to me.
Having said this, there is one weather site that still bitches that I
need to upgrade my Flash to view some views. I have refused to take
their bait yet. The weather site is:
http://www.wunderground.com/about/background.asp
That message usually means NoScript is still blocking content despite having
whitelisted the domain. Some of these moronic sites use multiple domains and NS does
not always detect/list the additional domains. You are forced to dig a little deeper
& then manually add the needed domain(s), trial & error in some cases.
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I will, but to what end? As a diagnostic tool? I am still floundering
about with all the current FF option windows with just my user profile.
But, if necessary, I will try.
Since most non-bug problems are profile issues, creating a new, clean profile is most
certainly a "diagnostic tool".
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I go to tools/options/tabs. The very first choice is "New pages should
be opened in: [new window] [new tab]. If I allow [new tab] whatever I
currently have running (usually a radio audio stream) just goes bonkers
w/cpu use to max. Since I have changed to [new window] these is little
trouble.
Could this be connected to the 50MB I allow for FF?
Not memory because all you're doing is opening a second window not a second instance
of firefox.exe, so all resources are shared. Issue seems to be something (assuming
flash app, damn buggy) just does not like sharing the same window. I'd be leaving
tabs on and loading just the offender sites in new windows.
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I will go look for TabMixPlus. But, I am now getting concerned with how
many add-ons I need to get trouble free browsing.
I don't know why the number worries you, FF is modular by design so using
multiple-addons is the norm & beauty of FF IMHO.
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I followed Brian's suggestion. I know about 'scripts.' NoScript is a
keeper. Once I get all my usual sites tweaked no problem. Today I added
the cookie mgr cs-lite because dealing with cookies in FF is
non-intuitive to me. I do like the background info FF provides for the
cookies I now have. Do not like not being to ctrl-click several for
erasure. One at a time or all. Hmm. I know; picky, picky! LOL!
Best idea yet (NoScript), even better than my default all protocols to "restricted"
trick under IE and more manageable. I don't bother managing cookies, I just dump them
all the time enmasse. Suppose I should look deeper into them...
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Again, I will look at this also. Since I started using the "hosts file"
some months back, I do not notice much of this type of stuff I believe.
Perhaps not even related.......
Bah, I don't put much faith in hosts file kludges but I do filter all Chinese IP's at
my router! AdBlock is smarter than filtering a host and gets updated automatically.
