A new Firefox Convert

[HeartBreak]

After a rather frustrating experience with IE6 (corrupted registry, had to do the whole repair console, copy over a registry copy from a restore point in dos thing), I decided to give Firefox a shot. All I can say is..... WOW!!! I wish I would've done this sooner!!!

The question I have, since it seems a tad slow; I remember seeing a thread some time ago (by Woodie) that mentioned a plugin to make this browser faster. Does anyone have the link to it? I searched, and could not find it.

 

[ImBroken]

Here ya go...

http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/

 

[olds97_lss]

There are lots of cool plugins for FF. I have the spell checker, mouse gestures and faster fox. But in FF, they are called "Extensions" instead of plugins.

I got really used to the mouse gestures from using Opera, but Opera turned into adware. It was out prior to FF when there was just mozilla I believe. I tried mozilla then, but it was buggy. It's much more stable now.

 

[HeartBreak]

Thanks Imbroken - just what I was lookin for...

Olds; I'm not sure how the gestures thing works.. I'll look into it, and maybe play around with it a little.

 

[olds97_lss]

It just watches your mouse for button click and hand movement to do actions.

The one I use most is the "Back Button" gesture. Right click, drag mouse left, this does the same thing as hitting the back button.

 

[ImBroken]

I downloaded the "StumbleUpon" extension the other day, and found myself stumbling around the internet for about 3hrs straight... lol Very interesting websites out there...

 

[NvNitro]

I had so much problem with IE, that I almost left the forum due to a virus. Olds told me about FF and after downloading it and doing some other things along with it. I was blown away by the speed of it. And haven't had any virus since.

If I didn't say it before olds..Thanks
And thanks for all your help to WoodiE on the subject.

 

[HeartBreak]

I agree; I also found an interesting problem with my current windows installation; I'm gonna do some research on this little problem, see if anyone out there has this issue... My windows NTFS partition went from 189gb to 190gb. It resized itself.

Also, defragmenting the drive caused a corrupt registry (just now... Thankfully, I printed out some steps and had a backup of the c:\windows\system32\config folder from a day or two ago... saved my bacon).

Why this is, I don't know, but one thing is for sure; I have NEVER had this many problems with a computer. I'm about ready to shoot the mainboard (Asus K7M) and take a sledge to the harddrive (Maxtor 200gb).

Anywho, off to Google I go, to see what I can pull up... Ought to be interesting.

So far, I'm enjoying the Firefox; it's officially made its way into my next reformat, right off the bat.

edit; after a night of searching, and a lot of trial and error; I've found the cause. The mainboard that I have, the ASUS K7M is known to have a potentially faulty I/O bridge. The only solution (and I was planning to do this anyways, but now I'm forced to), is to upgrade the board. I dunno what I'm gonna throw into this case, but I do know it isn't going to be another ASUS!!!

 

[mr_bob]

Hey heartbreak I've never liked asus they have always seemed cheap to me

but i just recently bought a gigabyte mobo and it seems pretty solid and has just about everything you could want on it


but if your looking for a new board i suggest going to newegg.com to get it they are cheap and fast shipping

 

[WoodiE]

Heartbreak - what CPU are you running?



-Michael

 

[HeartBreak]

Woodie; it's an AMD Athlon 800mhz on a Asus K7M, dual fan cooler on the cpu - non-raid version with 384mb of PC133 SDRam. I've flashed the bios up to current, all softwares' current. I'm just gonna replace it with a newer board/ram/cpu comin up. I've pretty much narrowed it to either the I/O controller or the Bios.

The one thing about this computer is, I bought it used, at a moving sale. It definately explains why it was sold in a moving sale, eh?

I failed to mention; I don't do overclocking at all. Too risky.

Mr_bob; Gigabyte... I've heard of 'em. I was leaning towards a Soyo, or something along their lines. I'm gonna do some shopping coming up and compare boards. Until then, it's ride it till it quits (which shouldn't be long!)

 

[olds97_lss]

Umm... yeah... mines a dell something...

I have a computer geek guy at work. He hooked me up with a decent pc and stuff at the office. He's also the one who actually hooked me up with my home pc as well. Some sort of deal if he bought 10 or more he got them at a lesser rate. I wish I knew more about that stuff. But then I'm sure I'd just waste my $ on it and not RC stuff.

 

[HeartBreak]

I hear ya there. My current saving-for is a Savage X. I'm just hoping to eek this thing along until I can get the savage. Then I'll worry about a new board. That should be hopefully by the end of the month.

 

[HeartBreak]

Just a quick update; I just got back from my local parts supplier, and picked up a P4-based board. The board is a PCChips M950HLU Series. I've had great luck with their boards in the past, so I had no choice but to jump all over this one... I paid $45 for it, new-in-box, never used. Now all I have to do is track down some ram (PC2700) and a CPU (socket 478).

Just leafing thru the specs in the book, and this thing should cook! Capable of 3ghz or so, ata/133, usb 2.0, agp 8x, 533mhz fsb, just to name a few. I can already see I'm gonna need a hefty power supply, lol.

I just hope this current PC I'm using will last another month.