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Wow! I'd no idea there were so many plugins - installed so many to play with my browser will probably grind to a slug's funeral march pace through sheer overload despite flash and adblock >;)<BR>
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Off to play for a bit before bedtime.<BR>
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I'll see how things are working and decide which are eye candy and which provide some functionality I will actually *use*. Some of them were just intriguing - WHY did someone feel motivated to do that? What itch was being scratched? So I had to find out too...<BR>
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Suspect will probably delete most of them but anything that makes the web useable again without buying a more modern laptop (which I really don't need, this does me fine apart from web page crawling rather than browsing).<BR>
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On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 20:54 +0100, M.Blackmore wrote:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">2 years ago I purchased a pair of Inspiron 8200 laptops second hand - 768mb ram, 2ghz P4, and a 16mb nvidia card.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Under Ubuntu 6.06 (transmuted into Mint Linux 'cos they put in all the multimedia stuff) these would happily run Evolution with LOTS of stuff on an imap server and local files, and Firefox whatever version it was then, with often up to 20 windows open (I'm a lazy sod who hates bookmarks).</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Now they are unuseable with more than 3 or so web pages open. </FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Web pages seem to be so loaded up with flash this and python or perl that and dancing pictures of adroidal sheep etc. nowadays - is it this that is killing the laptop? I would have thought 2ghz of processor power was quite enough for most things "ordinary" non power users need, thanks, and the ram memory isn't saturated ... so that leaves the 16mb video card as the bottleneck? Oui or non?</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">How can all the dancing twirling stuff in "web 3"(??) be affecting the sheer utter mindbending slowness of navigating around Firefox? Is it the video card memory? Has Firefox become a slug with version changes?</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Which raises for me the question based on my technical ignorance - what IS it that video card memory does that all the singing and dancing on webpages can slow down changing to tabbed windows, make highlighting links agonisingly slow (can take up to 10 seconds to highlight) and so forth?</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">I've reinstalled a couple of times from baremetal up (called finger trouble when playing with setups and so forth and getting into awful dependency tangles so I just thought easier to start again and not mess up next time) and that hasn't made a difference. Not the same passwords or anything either. New server and firewall - so I don't think I've been botnetted.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Am I right in my suspicions? I've just had to upgrade my wifes old computer to a 2.8 P4 with 96mb vid card from an older 1ghz machine with vid card with 20mb memory and the difference is phenomenal... hers had also ground to uselessness over the last two years whilst on web browsing.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Be interesting if someone with technical knowledge could help me understand what is going on here.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Many thanks</FONT>
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