Topic: No, I will not fix your computer. (Read 65282 times)

Classic · « **Reply #520 on:** September 06, 2012, 09:29:35 PM »

You mean flash crashing?

Büge · « **Reply #521 on:** September 06, 2012, 09:37:24 PM »

No, flash crashing is when you unexpectedly show up to parties wearing nothing but a raincoat.

Classic · « **Reply #522 on:** September 06, 2012, 09:38:23 PM »

I don't like to shed on stranger's upholstery.

Shinra · « **Reply #523 on:** September 06, 2012, 11:40:54 PM »

Quote from: Mongrel on September 06, 2012, 09:28:02 PM

Has anybody else been having really horrible freezing problems on YouTube lately? I've noticed it on multiple computers, multiple operating systems, and multiple browsers.

Cursory internet searching seems to indicate there's some crippling fuckup with Flash 11.3... but no real solutions other than reverting to v10.x.

Yes, both on my work computer and my home computer, but almost entirely in Chrome. I don't seem to have nearly the same problems with firefox or MSIE.

Ctrl+Alt+Del to the task manager (without actually killing the task) actually seems to fix it pretty frequently for me for some reason?????????

Mongrel · « **Reply #524 on:** September 07, 2012, 04:29:11 AM »

Yeah, I noticed that SUMMON THE TASK MASTER does kick Flash's ass a bit, but man is this annoying. I guess I can uninistall and revert to an older version.

Kayma · « **Reply #525 on:** September 07, 2012, 06:40:05 AM »

I had an issue with a flash update maybe two weeks ago. Some webcasts and other flash bullshit wouldn't load until I disabled something called "pepper flash" in Google Chrome's plugin configuration. Didn't bother tho research the reason once things started working.

Thad · « **Reply #526 on:** September 07, 2012, 07:00:15 AM »

What I'm finding is that when I type "youtube.com" into the location bar it defaults to https:// and then times right the fuck out; I have to manually put in http:// .

Guys I don't really need a secure connection for Youtube; pretty much the main thing I go on there for is to find Frank Zappa videos to embed on my website.

Mongrel · « **Reply #527 on:** September 09, 2012, 07:09:46 AM »

Say guys, any suggestions on how to troubleshoot massive, crippling memory use by Firefox [joke about "Switch to another browser" goes here]?

I'm fine, but Starr's using the latest version of FF and her only add-ons are NoScript, ABP, and AVG's Do Not Track (cookie deleter). She regularly gets prompts that FF is using 1-2 Gb of memory (or more) and it crashes ridiculously frequently on her now.

Rico · « **Reply #528 on:** September 09, 2012, 08:33:23 AM »

The first Google hit for how to troubleshoot massive, crippling memory use by Firefox

Can also set a value for browser.cache.memory.capacity

Seriously, though, switching to another browser isn't just a joke. Despite it supposedly being a feature Firefox has had memory use problems for a long time and they don't seem to want to do anything about it.

Mongrel · « **Reply #529 on:** September 09, 2012, 08:55:43 AM »

Huh. I did do some Googling before coming here (which I do for any tech issue - asking is a last resort), but didn't get that.

I'll give that a whirl when I get home, but I'm not sure the traditional "save memory! tips n tricks" will fix the issue. She can visit like five webpages (bland stuff, like this site or a newspaper) and crash FF and it can give her the warning after only a page or two - sometimes even as soon as she opens her browswer.

More importantly, she has a pretty decent computer and has had no similar issues for the past two years even though there's no real change in her browsing behaviour. This is a clear and dramatic change in behaviour with (apparently) no actions on her part to cause the shift.

Kayma · « **Reply #530 on:** September 09, 2012, 08:33:43 PM »

A friend of mine jest boldly proclaimed that he jettisoned Firefox in favor of Opera. I really didn't even know what to say.

TA · « **Reply #531 on:** September 09, 2012, 08:54:45 PM »

Quote from: Kayma on September 09, 2012, 08:33:43 PM

A friend of mine jest boldly proclaimed that he jettisoned Firefox in favor of Opera. I really didn't even know what to say.

Thad · « **Reply #532 on:** September 10, 2012, 06:26:25 AM »

First question is, how's her RAM? If she's got 4GB or more then yeah, Firefox shouldn't be eating through that.

Second is, has she tried another browser and experienced the same problems?

I still get the occasional high-memory issue with Firefox, but the last time it became a showstopper the problem turned out to be something on the CareerBuilder site. (Firefox kept locking up so much that I switched to another browser, only to find the problem persisted; eventually I narrowed it down to that site.)

I haven't had any trouble running ABP/NoScript but I'm not sure about the AVG add-on. I use AVG on my Windows machine at home but I think the only hook it's got in Firefox is link-scanning.

I like Firefox and keep coming back to it (even on my phone it's become my favorite browser of the 3 I've tried), but its memory problems ARE pretty legendary.

Mongrel · « **Reply #533 on:** September 10, 2012, 06:46:58 AM »

She's got 4 GB and recently ran a memtest to check it. She's going to try some different browsers today. I'll let you know.

She was worried she might have caught some kind of computer aids, but her AVG/Malwarebytes tests on that came back clean too (not an absolute guarantee, but reasonable).

Mongrel · « **Reply #534 on:** September 16, 2012, 05:41:10 AM »

Okay, a couple different browswers were tried : Chrome and IE didn't have any problems. A friend came over and said it might be related to a plugin, but again, the only plugins she's running are ADP and NoScript (she disable AVG do not track, which helped a bit but didn't actually fix the problem). And she installed NoScript after this started happening. Oh and she also uninstalled and reinstalled FF.

Mongrel · « **Reply #535 on:** October 03, 2012, 05:26:33 PM »

Does anybody know much about Google Docs? Or their recent reincarnation as Google Drive?

I've recently been working on a large-ish document (142 pages, 400kb in MS Word), usually loading it up at least once a day and I'm wondering, how bandwidth-hungry is the constant saving/updating of a Google Doc? Would my working on this in FF result in large amounts of bandwidth use? I know that FF usually warns me that I'm using about 500 Mb when I have it open, but I thought this was just memory use on my end.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #536 on:** October 03, 2012, 07:59:23 PM »

The actual size of a Google duck is probably well less than a meg. If FF says you're using about 500 mb, that has a lot to do with the fact that FF counts all of your tabs in memory, plus all the invisible elements on whatever page you're looking at. This includes all divs and inputs in a page plus all javascript libraries and scripts currently running.

Mongrel · « **Reply #537 on:** October 03, 2012, 09:12:54 PM »

I'm just wondering if the constant autosaving could be eating bandwidth.

Thad · « **Reply #538 on:** November 09, 2012, 11:07:04 PM »

Well! It's sure been a long time since I did anything THIS monumentally fucking stupid:

I formatted the wrong 1TB drive. Instead of formatting the one I just plugged in with a USB adapter, I formatted the one I have Windows installed on.

Worst-case, I don't think I've lost anything vital. Had my latest resume and all the rest of my job paperwork on there, but fortunately I've got that spread out all over various IMAP servers, multiple drives, multiple computers -- you get the idea. I'm looking for a damn job, so I have resumes strewn about everywhere.

And I had my password file on there, but fortunately I'd just finished backing it up to multiple drives and my phone.

So nothing vital. It's just that it took me hours to get the damn thing set up. And it had a Mass Effect save on it that was maybe one mission farther along than my backup.

Fucking irksome, at the very least.

It was just a quick format so the data should still be on there -- just the MBR and whatever other basic stuff overwritten. Might be able to get it back with some partition recovery software. If I can find a good program then it's worth it to try just because I don't want to redo the whole Win7/Win8 installation/configuration thing, reinstall all my programs, replay that lost hour or whatever of ME2...

Fuck. One of those "Well, obviously I should have gone to bed five minutes ago and now I will be going to bed much, much later instead" moments.

I tried the trial version of EaseUS since I'm currently booted to OSX. I was under the impression that trial versions of $90 software were supposed to make you think hey, this software is totally worth $90, but the makers of EaseUS seem to think trial software is supposed to peg two of my 4 CPU's and completely fucking lock up.

TestDisk for Linux looks promising.

Thad · « **Reply #539 on:** November 09, 2012, 11:19:38 PM »

Unless of course my OpenSUSE boot has somehow also become hosed. Wow, that's...huh. I legitimately have no fucking idea how or why that happened.

I...guess it's a good thing I can still boot to my Kubuntu drive? Probably maybe?

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