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| willnormanuk wrote: | | ... or switch to Mozilla's test software 'mozzila'. |
Erm. The only "test software" I can think of is that Firefox 3 is currently out on beta 3.
There used to be the "Mozilla" suite, which was the original (derived from Netscape... sort of), which gave rise to Firefox/Thunderbird as a split, then was itself discontinued. It was never "test software". I used it. I've never much cared for the FF/TB split up pair.
I personally use "SeaMonkey", which is the reincarnation of the suite (whose source code was originally internally called "Seamonkey"). Seamonkey combines the current Firefox and Thunderbird, in effect, plus quite a lot of other stuff, in a less fussy, single, integrated package. It also has never been "test software".
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| lau wrote: |
512Mbyte 1.6GHz machine, running Ubuntu with 800Mbyte swap in use at this instant. Current uptime = 9.5 days (since a power cut). |
linux with 512 mb ram? That sounds like a painful experience.
By the way, Stereokid, every firefox tab tries to store its contents in your RAM, so if you have a lot of tabs open and not enough ram, your computer will hang if it's resorting to reading or writing to the swapfile instead of ram. How much ram do you have?
In an ideal configuration, swap should not be touched. But you need enough ram to completely ditch a disk swap. I only have 2gb of RAM on this machine but it's a laptop so I can get away with a small amount of ram.
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lau
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| Stereokid wrote: | | If it's a problem with my video card, how do I fix it? And yes, I am running Windows XP. |
I'd doubt that it was the card itself (unless you are very unlucky), as I think you are saying that it is ONLY when you come to run a video that it all goes belly up. Having said that... does it only apply when running video across the net? I.e. what's it like locally, off DVDs, or from local files?
It may be worth making sure you have the latest Dell Inspiron E1505 video drivers installed.
It may even be worth having a quick look to see if Windows Update is offering you a new driver (although, from my experience, permitting MS to update the video driver could be a major disaster!)
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willnormanuk
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:14 am Post subject: soz |
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they've stopped using mozila, i didn't notice sorry
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lau
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:48 am Post subject: |
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| alex wrote: | | linux with 512 mb ram? That sounds like a painful experience. |
How so?
Actually, I do notice the pinch, a little, when I am running Firefox on XP inside VirtualBox - when the voice audio from the virtualised Windows version of Skype comes back out up to Ubuntu a little too choppy to be useful. I.e. when I am exceeding around 1Gbyte active swap on top of the 1/2Gbyte real RAM.
Linux knows what swap space is all about. I have two swap partitions, each on drives other than the one I work most on. (Three HDDs, yes.)
Ubuntu didn't really like my Compaq Armada 4220T 96Mbyte laptop, so I installed Slackware, just for a change. That replaced a rather tired Debian (where I had messy about mixing use of stable, testing and unstable releases, so much so, it had all got rather confused). Prior to Debian, the 96Mbytes was fine for SuSE (which I actually purchased!).
DSL needs a 486DX with 16Mbytes.
Tiny Linux will make do with a 386 and 8Mbytes, and is what is installed, experimentally, (or maybe jokingly?) on my recycled Toshiba T2130CS.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:57 am Post subject: Re: soz |
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| willnormanuk wrote: | | they've stopped using mozila, i didn't notice sorry |
Will, the whole organisation is now called Mozilla. The browser/email/etc was called "The Mozilla Suite". The program name was Mozilla, I think, although it's been a long while since I was using that. Development of it was stopped in March 2005. Seamonkey started up sometime during that year, when I continued to use the old Mozilla Suite. I think I switched over when the beta version of SeaMonkey came ot, at the end of that year.
In effect, the original Mozilla Suite was broken up to produce the separate Firefox browser and Thunderbird email user agent. There was an intention to keep all the projects together, I believe, but that didn't really happen. Firefox and Thunderbird drifted apart, and away form the original Mozilla Suite.
What I use is really Mozilla (sort of), but dug back up out of a grave, and with "Seamonkey" slapped on as a "new" name for it (although that is in fact the OLD name for the source code of the suite. ).
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As was stated earlier how are the drivers? Youtube can cause problems though just because I haven't had problems with Firefox running videos doesn't mean it can't happen.
That said
I am running Firefox 2.0.0.12 can you state what version you are running? (This is on the help menu -> About Firefox)
Did you also get the video drivers that was mentioned earlier?
Can you play video locally as this was not stated (i.e. DVD, stored video not Youtube)?
Windows XP may not be the problem then again having used Ubuntu and getting sick of upgrading every six months am learning Debian but that is beside the point. Please try the above and let us know. |
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