Firefox is all fucked up.

[Guest Vitamin X]

This coincides with a tremendous lack of available RAM I had the other day. I downloaded a couple trustworthy boost programs and they sped up my computer (it was so bad not even my Windows .wav files were playing without being slow or skippinG) but the worst affected, and I have no clue how this happened, was Firefox decided to stop displaying random images. I use http://my.yahoo.com/ as my startup page and the background image and a couple comics I have on there didn't work, and I went to TSM and like half of everyone's sigs, avatars, and the like were broken, strangely enough. I'd right click and do "View Image" and then it would say the server/link or whatever couldn't be found, but everything works perfectly fine when I use IE.

 

Anyone else encounter a similar problem or might be able to figure out what's wrong with my beloved web browser? IE feels so odd to use now.

[bobobrazil1984 0]

maybe some sort of privacy setting got accidently set up, blocking them?? thats the only thing i can think of, i'm hardly an expert though.

 

Anyone??

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

Try getting rid of any non essential extensions that you have. I had a ton running and it made Firefox slow to load, and slow to do just about anything.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Apparently what worked was uninstalling it then downloading it and reinstalling it and getting into the privacy options, clearing out EVERYTHING (cookies, cache, the works) and somehow it seemed to have unfucked itself. This included all the extensions as well, so thanks for your help guys.

[CBright7831 0]

I'm pretty much preparing for another reboot of my computer. The spyware is still on it. This week, I'm savings all of my images, links, etc. and get ready. I'm tired of it.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Get the new Microsoft Antispyware program, it's great.

[Jobber of the Week 0]

Get the new Microsoft Antispyware program, it's great.

If you do this, get Ad-Aware or SpyBot too. Just using the Microsoft tool is really bad in the long term.

 

Why? Because pretty soon EVERYONE will have the Microsoft tool, because they'll either package it in Windows or include it with a Service Pack or something. Already, word is flying about it and all kinds of people are downloading it.

 

And people who make spyware are going to want to get around it and make backdoors and fixes to circumvent detection. And Microsoft, predictably, will not be able to keep up.

 

Spyware authors aren't that concerned with Ad-Aware and Spybot. The people who use them are generally computer savvy and the authors constantly update the programs. They also probably know when something is installing spyware and not to install it. The spyware people do not want to lose the soccer moms and the blue-haired grannies who don't know PC security though. These people don't know much about computers, and they'll install whatever they're asked to.

 

So, I predict in 18 months or so, that MS Spyware program will be useless.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Not sure about you, but the Microsoft program I have was able to detect and remove things Ad-aware and Spybot S&D weren't able to. It's also the most user-friendly, obviously.

[Jobber of the Week 0]

http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20050113.html

 

Microsoft AntiSpyware does nothing at all to protect users of the rival Firefox Web browser from home- and search-page hijacking. It detects and corrects such hijacking only in its own Internet Explorer Web browser. The company says it is trying to focus on things that affect "the largest number of customers," and it notes that the vast majority of users rely on IE. But this, too, smacks of favoritism toward Microsoft products.

 

Lovely.

[Guest Vitamin X]

D'oh.

[Eclipse 0]

I'd rather stick with good ol' SpyBot and Ad-Aware. Both have worked wonders on my PC.

[Guest Vitamin X]

This probably explains why Firefox wasn't loading some things correctly for a while, while IE still runs smooth as ever.