John, Are you old enough to remember the cartoon 'Little Abner'. I think that's where I met Chief Rain-in-the-Face, always followed around by his own rain clouds. You need to make yourself a sunnier climate. Regards, Bob S.
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 10:12 AM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > I *do* understand exactly what "ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE" means. I chose > those words deliberately and with malice aforethought ... > > There's nothing wrong with the computer, it's just old. I was using the > older version of Firefox because I didn't want all the added overhead > processing that comes with feature creep in the newer version. > > On 7/27/2013 12:01 AM, Aahz Maruch wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013, John wrote: >>> >>> >>> I finally gave in to the badgering & installed the latest version of >>> Firefox. Got rid of the nag tab, but it ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE slower >>> to load anything than the previous version I was using. >> >> >> One order of magnitude would be ten times slower. "Orders" plural means >> at least two orders of magnitude or more than a hundred times slower. >> Unless you're being figurative, there's something seriously wrong with >> your computer that you need to diagnose. (Firefox has been roughly >> speed-stable for me since 2.0, maybe even a bit faster over time, but >> it's hard to separate out varying network effects.) >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
