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That's moronic. There are wired connections with data caps. Man windows 10 is so controlling. It even uninstalls apps without your permission ( I have cpu-z and it uninstalled it automatically), source. That's what you get for it being a "free" upgrade I guess.
"... multi-process browser"
Thankfully, this has finally begun to land in Nightly (firefox devbuild.) It's been around for a couple of months but it's finally active as of like this week.
I'm very very excited for firefox to finally have multiprocessing. It's still in its early stages (which is pretty crazy after all these years) but it's finally happening! They had started development in 2009, then halted it in 2011.
Firefox is planning to move to multiprocess too: http://www.ghacks.net/2014/02/13/firefoxs-multi-process-architecture/.
Mozilla engineers say they can avoid overblown memory consumption with their new multiprocess architecture and I believe them. Firefox used to be memory hog, but since then Mozilla guys learned the lesson and proved they know how to curb memory usage. I keep my fingers crossed.
Because almost 60% of Windows users still use it:
EDIT: A little more recent - just above 50%:
http://www.ghacks.net/2010/12/22/december-market-share-xp-drops-windows-7-gains/
DON'T install Hola for Chrome because it's been confirmed to have malware. I suggest you get another extension.
Hola themselves saying it's no longer an issue but would you trust them?
This is part of Archive.org's ongoing initiative to preserve video game media. Here's more information.
Everything in the demo - music, textures, models are generated from equations and or algorithms. The small number of assets will be used repeatedly. All the strawberries will be the same strawberry rendered repeatedly in different places and with different rotations. All the leaves will be the same leaf.
Eg. Storing every polyogon on a high resolution sphere takes a lot of space but you can generate it with a few lines of code which compiles to a hundred bytes or so Procedural Sphere Generation
Textures are often perlin or Brownian noise which again can be completely generated from a hundred bytes or so of compiled code.
[EDIT] : Technically this is a form of compression, the form you are thinking of doesn't use prior knowledge to improve the compression. These techniques use prior knowledge of the data to reduce the size of data required to regenerate the desired data. But even without priors (and a low enough information data set) you can get some crazy big compression ratios. 42kB file extracts to 45pB
hoverzoom's malware, fyi. Go with Imagus instead.
Sorry to say but it's just because you're using Firefox, its on all HTML5 videos. That text is not something web developers have control over.
multiprocess comes now enabled by default?
EDIT: It says: "Process separation (e10s) is enabled for some of you. Like it? Let us know and we'll roll it out to more."
What the hell is that supposed to mean? Is it random? How did they decide who gets it and who doesn't?
EDIT2: According to this link: http://www.ghacks.net/2016/08/01/firefox-48-release/, only 1 % of users, who don't use addons, will have it enabled by default.. I thought version 47 did that and 48 was supposed to enable it... Guess not.
Yup, the problem is that they have definite incentive to be a bit "lenient" regarding what is a Critical/Important update,
or the fact that there's advertising built into the OS,
or the analytics that you cannot turn off except by blocking it external to the computer itself,
or the fact that microsoft is being very fucking "coy" about what they're actually patching.
Microsoft has done nothing to earn the level of trust from user's that they are demanding, and just about everything they could to undermine it.
Including giving the OS away... Selling software is/was MS's bread and butter... so if we're not paying for it, they're making money somewhere else, and that means it's probably really fucking shady (but, perfectly legal, no doubt)
Yeah, Iron is a pretty shitty fork. They replace the link to Google's Webstore and instead link to their own shitty extension site. So their site has ads, hasn't even been updated since 2011, and when you click on the link to download/install them, it links back to the Google Webstore, so what the hell is the point of the site then, other than to generate money? So much talk about privacy when they have ads on their own site.
Also what they claim they disable for privacy issues are things everyone can disable, so even Chrome can be de"botnet"ified. Iron also lags behind in staying up to date with the stable build of Chrome.
Chromium is just a good alternative to Chrome, though it sucks that there are no stable releases and no auto update, so you have to manually update it yourself. There are third party programs that can update it for you.
Hey Alison, if you're using the original HoverZoom, I recommend you switch. HoverZoom used to be doing some shady stuff. Link. I don't know if they still do, but I've used Imagus on my personal computer and had no problem.
According to this site they, company behind media hint, has stated:
"A premium account starts at $3.95 per month. The unlimited daily use feature of the premium account seems to suggest that free accounts are limited in terms of daily use.
The website does not offer information about that, but if you head over to Twitter, you will notice a statement by the site operators that free accounts are not limited in daily use either. It unclear why unlimited daily use is listed as a premium feature then."
From mediahint website "Content unblocked Countries have borders. The Internet shouldn't."
But we do put it behind a pay wall. Im really saddened by this move. Mediahint was really awesome when using netflix. If they continue on this path, it would seem like the free account will have a cap on daily usage
It's been like that every year. No one fact checks past Apple rumors so these guys don't have a problem to sell their bullshit. There was Apple Rumor Tracker but unfortunately it's dead since a while. Read some older rumor posts for some laughs. My fave is still the iPhone nano with 9 Home Screen icons.
> Google’s own services will always work best with Chrome
This is something thats already happening and i truly HATE this approach.
I like Google products, but the game here is so unfair.
Dont think it takes years to modify the appearance of the page
I would clear your local storage first as it only seems that certain visitors to the website got the hack. If you did or not I don't know cause I don't know your browsing habits, but following the above instructions is smart.
As for you and what could have been targeted, I honestly couldn't tell you. We know that the server the hack was communicating with was up at some point, but we don't know if it wasn't fully activated or if the hacker already got whatever info he wanted. But again I don't know your browsing habits. For the meanwhile I would not visit Imgur until a public statement is made and clear your web storage. This seems to have been very limited in scope, but it is always better to be safe than sorry.
This is probably a good time to push my things that I have put on my parent's machines for internet safety which include Ublock and LastPass. Ublock for general script blocking and LastPass for password management.
An alternative is an application called Steam Mover. It works on any folder, not just Steam games. It works great.
http://www.ghacks.net/2010/09/03/steam-mover-automated-tool-to-move-games-and-apps-to-other-drives/
First uninstall Superfish INC software from the control panel, after that's done
1.Tap on the Windows-key to bring up the start menu or start screen. 2.Type certmgr.msc and hit enter. This opens the Certificate Manager. 3.Use the folder structure on the left to navigate to Trusted Root Certification Authorities -> Certificates. 4.Check if Superfish Inc. is listed among the certificates. 5.If it is, right-click the certificate and select Delete from the context menu to remove it. http://www.ghacks.net/2015/02/19/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-preinstalled-adware-and-root-certificate/
Not just them, several popular corporates as well.
They'll do something they like, and because of the market presence they command they could probably enforce it as a standard.
I mean just look at this by the search giant - http://www.ghacks.net/2015/11/22/google-search-results-on-firefox-mobile-limited-in-comparison-to-chrome/
Even Facebook currently sends low-res icons/images to FF users.
If the internet has to open, its also upto the users to stand up for it as well.
See for example here: http://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/01/sourceforge-adds-and-removes-adware-installers-to-abandoned-projects/ and http://www.gimp.org/ (scroll down to "GIMP Project's official statement...")
You can set Windows up to flash a circle around the cursor position when you hit the control key, to make it easier to find.
http://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/07/highlight-the-mouse-cursor-to-locate-it-on-the-screen/
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/05/14/how-to-disable-pocket-in-firefox/
> * Type about:config in the browser's address bar and hit the enter-key afterwards. * Confirm that you will be careful if the prompt appears. * Search for browser.pocket.enabled. * Double-click on the preference to toggle its state from true to false.
> This disables Pocket in Firefox and the icon should be gone once you restart the browser.
Edit: "Firefox already has a 'reading list'." - Not anymore. It's making way for Pocket. As I understand it, this is not a permanent change though: The devs were unable to make it refined enough for general use in a reasonable timescale, so while they work on it they've turned to someone who has already solved the problem.
I've actually found Chrome to be more resource intensive than Firefox, especially RAM-wise. Particularly with 10+ tabs open. This benchmark will back me up on that. A few months ago with 4GB of memory I often found that Firefox would quite happily deal with a large number of tabs, whereas Chrome would often give me a blank page for a good 10 seconds or so when switching tabs. If hardware ageing is a problem then Firefox would probably be a better browser to use.
From this link:
>Mozilla and Google have pulled the extension from their stores after a report aired on German national television that the company was selling the browsing history of its users.
Panorama (a relative trustworthy show with a good reputation) managed to gain access to a large data collection that contained the browsing history of 3 million Germans. Thats all I know so far.
If you have the miner installed it will be showing up under EpicScale.exe in your task manager.
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/03/07/detect-and-remove-epicscale-from-your-windows-pc/
svchost is what runs a bunch of Windows Services like Windows Defender or network services. It's completely normal (and expected) to have multiple instances showing up.
"There can be multiple instances of svchost.exe running on your computer, with each instance containing different services. One instance of svchost.exe might host a single service for a program, and another instance might host several services related to Windows. You can use Task Manager to view which services are running under each instance of svchost.exe."
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/what-is-svchost-exe#1TC=windows-7
Ehh... I mean, it's no Windows ME, but there's plenty of people more than happy to stick with Windows 7.
And that's going to be harder and harder to do: Early 2016, Microsoft will reclassify the Windows 10 upgrade as a <em>Recommended Update</em> to Windows 7/8. That means a lot of people only interested in the normal bugfixes and security patches are going to wind up accidentally changing their OS.
I mean, that's one way to get people to switch to Windows 10.
Another is: "Hey. Free RDR, right?"
Shill post time! But the ghacks guy does good write ups about Firefox releases, speaks in layman's terms for most of us folks here, and will often times go into details on about:config options to undo things for people who experience problems or just don't like change.
I just got the update to v29 today. And it completely changed all my user interface settings! Burns me up! Don't change custom settings with a new version at least without asking the user whether they'd like that or not. This is no better than Microsoft forcing the Metro interface in Windows 8 for everyone! God damn! {swearing vehemently like a sailor}
Some people don't want to be force fed what Mozilla thinks is best design wise with the user interface. It took me a good half hour to research on how to put everything back that way it was and the way I like it which is the old style Firefox user interface. Menu bar showing full time, small icons buttons that can be all moved around, tabs on bottom, no search bar, and remove all the new un-necessary buttons they added and no add-on bar.
I made use of the following links:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-make-new-firefox-look-like-old-firefox
http://www.ghacks.net/2014/04/26/turn-new-firefox-29-old-firefox/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemerestorer/
The key points for me were:
In customize mode at the bottom left in the "show/hide toolbars" drop down menu, you have to select menu bar.
That getting the tabs on bottom required the Classic Theme Restorer. Go into the preferences for it in the add-ons section. in the main tab under tabs, there is a drop down menu to change that.
That being able to move the forward and back buttons separate from the address bar also requires the Classic Theme Restorer. In the main tab under general UI there is a check box to tick for movable forward and back buttons.
Heads up, if you're using the Hoverzoom extension you should stop since it apparently loads malware scripts onto your computer. Imagus is a similair app by the original hoverzoom developer that works great and isn't malware.
Don't use hover zoom.
>Back in March 2013 we noticed that Hoverzoom was running a script in the background that the company claimed was used to “detect unused domain names and submit the results back to the owners”.
>Some days ago, things got a lot crazier. A thread on Reddit claimed that Hoverzoom turned malware, as it was seemingly injecting “malware scripts” into every page visited in the Chrome browser.
>The author of Hoverzoom responded to that claim on the official website where he stated the following:
>>This script is not malware.
>|Your persdonal data was not collected.
>>There is no need to change your passwords.
Yeeeeaaa I think it was and you should.
Source: http://www.ghacks.net/2013/12/26/hoverzooms-malware-controversy-imagus-alternative/
Remember when Mozilla lied about the integration of pocket about a year ago? It's a real shame to see things turn out that way. I really hope this is all just some kind of big misunderstanding.
hola is bad. they turn your pc into an exit node and sell your bandwidth. use zenmate instead.
Copy/pasted from elsewhere in the thread:
FOR ANYONE WHO CAN'T GET THE ICON TO SHOW UP
If you're like me, you've tried everything. Well I'm here to tell you you haven't!
I've already tried running all the various .cmd files pasted all over reddit, and even tried downloading a few executables. I uninstalled and reinstalled the related updates, and tried running GWX.exe directly as an administrator. NOTHING WORKED until I found this:
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/08/how-to-display-the-windows-10-upgrade-icon-if-it-is-not-visible/
Somebody made a neat little .bat file with a gui and everything. It first checks to make sure windows is Genuine and Activated (and one of the versions that is acceptable). After that it checks to make sure you have the two necessary Windows Updates. Then it gives you three methods to get the icon to show up (all automatic). The one that finally worked for me was #3!
WARNING: It is an executable file from the internet, so be sure to run all your antiviruses and even check the source code before running it. I did so myself and found it to be safe, but don't take my word for it.
This is highly rampant in the mobile sphere:
Google:
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/11/22/google-search-results-on-firefox-mobile-limited-in-comparison-to-chrome/
Facebook:
https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/532
I posted this in the other thread but in case anyone finds this useful and doesn't want to see promoted content in the start menu:
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/11/08/mozilla-to-remove-tab-groups-panorama-in-firefox-45/
Only used by 0.01% of the users and it apparently has hight costs in terms of maintenance. It was originally a plug-in, so I'm sure there are other (and probably better) plug-ins for it at the moment.
- Load chrome://flags/#enable-tab-audio-muting in Chrome's address bar and hit enter.
- Here you should find the Enable tab audio muting UI control right away as the loading should jump to the flag right away.
- It reads:"When enabled, the audio indicators in the tab strip double as tab audio mute controls. This also adds commands in the tab context menu for quickly muting multiple selected tabs".
- Hit Enable underneath it and restart the browser.
There is also an extension that can help (covered by ghacks as well).
Well there are lots of reasons to hate them, making the "tiny" client blaoted and full of ads is one thing but the last straw was this.
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/03/06/utorrent-bundles-bitcoin-miner-time-for-some-alternatives/
Even though it was never "proven" its a good enough reason for me to avoid this software
Most systems meet the minimum requirement these days. If they can run 7, they can absolutely run Windows 10.
Be that as it may, you don't want to wait at the last minute. Windows 10, so far, is a pretty fantastic OS. It's pretty stable, and maybe in a month or two, it'll be even more stable. So maybe upgrade two months after instead of waiting even longer.
Really? "You're using Windows 7." How is that a reason? Yes, security updates are supported til 2020, but if you want to try out all the new bells and whistles, you can give Windows 10 a whirl. If you don't like it, simply roll back the system.
Desktop Gadgets: 8GadgetPack
If you don't care about feature updates, then sure, keep Windows 7. No problem about sticking with something that works. Just make sure you want to keep it. After a year, Windows 10 won't be free to you.
Doesn't OneDrive download the files when you sync them in Windows Explorer? I know I could access them offline in Explorer. Maybe they meant the OneDrive metro app?
I'm sure some old drivers are still supported. An old HP printer from 2002-2003 still works on Windows 10. I'm sure an old scanner or two would be detected on the new OS.
Alternatives to Windows Media Center here.
Again, if you're afraid of bugs, give it a month or two. It used to be wait til the next service pack, however, with Windows 10...it'll be a rolling release. No more service packs. Some of the major bugs will be squashed a lot sooner.
Do NOT use Hola. Hola is great because you can route your traffic through another computer, but other people will do the same to you. Hola also sells the ability to send arbitrary commands from this botnet.
Yeah the same thing happens on PC. We just aren't elitist enough to assume people that some people don't care about lower quality.
http://www.ghacks.net/2016/01/12/want-1080p-playback-on-netflix-dont-use-firefox-or-chrome/
This site says it's from updates to the Javascript engine. http://www.ghacks.net/2016/10/09/chrome-55-memory-improvements/
There's some graphs showing memory usage between version 53 and 55 and it's quite a huge decrease in memory usage for sites that abuse the hell out of Javascript. The NY Times was using just above 50 MB, in version 55 it's just below 20 MB and that's better than most of the tested sites on version 53 even though NYT was using a ridiculous amount of memory.
Anybody know if this also means there are performance improvements?
Unless you have enterprise or education you can't use group policies to disable that anymore, not even on pro.
http://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/28/microsoft-removes-policies-windows-10-pro/
Read before you post, you might find other things you don't know.
Not that I give a single shit, I will never use anything other than a local account and will therefore never have a lock screen anyway.
> FUD
There's actually a bunch of unfair practices going on(from the Big guys).
Facebook serve a low-res version of its mobile site to FF android users. All the pics and icons are blurry compared to chrome/opera.
Google Search is without many features and a real old UI for FF Android users. Even GMail is an old UI.
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/11/22/google-search-results-on-firefox-mobile-limited-in-comparison-to-chrome/
Outlook.com has super-smooth animations on Chome/Opera(blink/webkit) but nothing as such for FF Desktop.
Funny part is change the UserAgent and it works.
> "Sorry, you can't view or download this file at this time"
If you follow these instructions you can watch it anyways.'mirror'.
Note from your friendly moderators: Hoverzoom sells your browsing data. We highly recommending switching to something else. Here's some more information!
We're not supposed to, right? You're just making a joke, right?
http://lifehacker.com/windows-does-defragment-ssds-but-its-okay-1666753409
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/01/20/windows-ssds-and-defragmentation-the-definitive-answer/
So, it sounds like what happened previously (in November) was that Mozilla just delisted the WOT addon but did not do anything to current installs. This is them officially blocking all past installs. (So disabling the addon in your Firefox.) They notably add that "These versions are also affected by a vulnerability that could lead to unwanted remote code execution."
However they also say:
> Users are strongly encouraged to disable the problematic add-on or plugin, but may choose to continue using it if they accept the risks described.
They specifically say that everything below 20170120 has been blocked, so I'm thinking that the developers may be offering a signed version with the security vulnerability fixed on their website.
To add to the confusion, someone has posted what appears to be a light theme called "WOT - Web Of Trust" that comes to the top of a google search.
if youre upset about the google layout and difference in chrome vs firefox you'll have to complain to google
Edge performance is actually pretty good.
It is lacking in the feature department though since there is no extension support yet and it doesn't support as many html5 features as the rest (only safari supports less).
Hola is incredibly risky. Do not install it, and if you have it, you should uninstall it. It works by stealing your bandwidth and reselling it, which opens you up to being prosecuted for carrying potentially illegal traffic, or harbouring attacks against other internet users.
The goals of this API are:
It should be easier to use.
It must be compatible with multiprocess Firefox (Electrolysis).
Porting add-ons to and from other browsers should be easier.
Changes to Firefox's internal code should be less likely to break add-ons.
It should be easier to review add-ons to reduce the backlog on addons.mozilla.org.
See also
Mozilla wants to make Chrome Extension ports to Firefox easier
it's not just you. Flash and firefox have never played nicely together IMO so I jumped to html5 on youtube long time ago but I'm still limited to 360 and 720. I think youtube live broadcast might still use the flash player but maybe not for much longer.
http://www.ghacks.net/2014/05/10/enable-media-source-extensions-firefox/ - support for media source extensions is supposed to be in as of ff 31 but it doesn't work for me in ff 35.01 after manually enabling it - from looking into this annoyance before this is why we're limited to 360 and 720 on youtube with firefox. I had not heard of waterfox until today.
dash: no means no 1080p or higher for you
Ah ok. I see that you can work around it by using Classic Theme Restorer (http://www.ghacks.net/2015/12/16/how-to-restore-classic-search-in-firefox-43/), but I'd rather get used to it than install an add-on just for that.
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/08/28/microsoft-intensifies-data-collection-on-windows-7-and-8-systems/
Will this do? Otherwise you can just search the web, there's enough forum/reddit threads about those updates...
Userscripts.org is no more.
Welcome to software as a service, or as I prefer to call it, "shafting as a service".
Other examples of shafting as a service are the way that Sony took out Linux support from the PS3 post sale, and this; http://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/28/microsoft-removes-policies-windows-10-pro/
Boycott the cloud, boycott SAAS, and boycott being "always connected". Those two words "always connected" are corporate speak for "it tracks you, it shows ads and we'll implement features or limitations that you probably don't want as time goes by".
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i would also like to know this. i bought one of the affected models a year ago. not sure if superfish was included at the time, but i did notice an absurd amount of bloatware the first time i booted it up. i only halfheartedly deleted it before switching over to the "classic" windows view from the new UI, where a lot of the bloat was less obtrusive.
EDIT: found this in another /r/technology thread that explains how to find and remove the certificate (halfway down the page).
The HD audio is if you are using the HDMI port on the card, IIRC.
Also you may want to have a look at this.
1.) "Disabling" Cortana leaves the process running in the background anyway. It may be doing absolutely nothing aside from local search. There is zero way for you to tell. There is no method in Pro/Home to disable the executable aside from taking control of the program's files and renaming/deleting them. You are correct in that Cortana has been merged with Windows search so if you do that you lose search as well.
3.) Incorrect. Candy Crush is installed under the "consumer experience" by default and that registry setting is Microsoft's way of allowing businesses to ensure it will not return after any patches. So far that is the only program that was actually installed (you're right in that the others are links). Source. So although Microsoft hasn't pushing a bunch of third party applications onto your machine so far, that program does allow them to and they have so far done it once. The fact that they're now making it impossible to opt out in the consumer version doesn't inspire much confidence.
Please take into consideration that the tests in that article are outdated and shouldn't be used as a siding argument since they do not account for the APB performance improvements which have already been shipped to the recent FF 41 stable. Correct me if I am wrong.
Mozilla has been... the way it is... for a long time.
There was the MNG thing, which was slightly weird. A mix of quasi-valid argument and because-I-said-so.
Then the changes to extensions -- expect a bunch to gradually disappear or become unusable when that finally and completely drops. Enhanced Steam is no longer in development for Firefox as a result of this. When/if Pentadactyl isn't available for Firefox/Iceweasel, I'll be back on Chrom{e,ium}.
Now stuff like this.
Mozilla has basically always been peculiar, stubborn, and notional. This is just their latest peculiar, stubborn, and notional thing.
Go to about:config and flip browser.pocket.enabled to false.
Then hope the preference doesn't get removed "in order to declutter the code base".
Edit: gHacks article
http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/16/10780876/microsoft-windows-support-policy-new-processors-skylake
http://www.ghacks.net/2017/03/17/microsoft-blocks-updates-for-new-cpus-on-windows-7-and-8-1/
Thing is, this was done intentionally and there's zero reason for this to have been done. The i7 6700k (Edit, apparently Skylake too?) per example aught to work flawlessly but the 7700k/Ryzen will not be the case. I think it's just about being able to update, but essentially off a clean install and any of the new chips you will NOT be able to get ANY updates. Can't bypass it either and download manually, it simply won't work from what I've heard. Take it with a grain of salt of course, but knowing Microsoft...
※firefoxのアドオンにも問題あるやつがあるからなあ
Firefox の アドオン Download Manager (S3) が スパイウェア と判明
https://redd.it/3q0i93
Firefox Add-on YouTube Unblocker blocked by Mozilla
http://www.ghacks.net/2016/03/03/beware-firefox-add-on-youtube-unblocker-put-on-blocklist/
I did that but was told that there's been some sketchy stuff with Hola, so I opted to avoid that.
> Their shitty videos now also play in a HTML5 browser without flash installed.
This preference in Firefox may help - disables auto-play for HTML5 video in most cases.
I created this by combining every version of the image that DICE PR has released and using a superresolution technique to combine each picture and take advantage of the minor offsets in pixels to generate a higher resolution photo. The resolution is 4513x2538 but would probably scale down to 1440p in actuality because at some point superresolution is just enlarging the pixels without doing anything. The other advantages of this photo is that there is minimal JPEG artifacting and I have removed all watermarks and logos from the photo. To make sure Windows does not add its own JPEG artifacts, use the set as wallpaper command from Windows Explorer instead of from a program. Would anyone like to see more of these wallpapers?
Wow. There's two different people still browsing this thread. Was it linked from somewhere? Also no "uninstall a program" won't remove everything. Here's a guide to both checking if you have it in the first place and then removing it if you do.
Yes, it is. I wonder if this couldn't get people in trouble if someone linked to drugs black market or some other illegal shit, say in the blog comments 'website' form input, and your browser preloaded the linked site for you while normally you would never click that. You can disable it with network.predictor.enabled .
But you can't disable seer by changing network.seer.enabled to false anymore anyway, so probably no point in changing anything.
Most of those are indeed Flash crashes. You might make sure Flash is fully up to date. Could also try disabling Flash's protected mode to see if that helps: http://www.ghacks.net/2014/12/21/how-to-disable-flash-player-protected-mode-in-firefox/ (Development builds of Firefox are experimenting with force-disabling protected mode as a general thing to help reduce the crashiness.)
The last report, though, is crashing in Firefox's media decoder for HTML5 content. Unsure what that means, exactly. Have you enabled the new mediasouce extensions stuff? That crashing might be an example of why Mozilla decided MSE support wasn't ready to be generally deployed as part of Firefox 36.
(I also see you have a youtube mp3 extension installed. Maybe it's not compatible with something in the 36 update and is leading to these crashes?)
That didn't work. But I did manage to find a solution. Sort of.
For anyone who might have the same problem, I fixed it for myself by following this guide, and setting media.mediasource.enabled to true and media.mediasource.ignore_codecs to true.
Which actually made the html5 player not work at all... But after a brief error message, youtube now automatically switches to the flash player. Ghetto solution I guess, but it gets the job done.
So did google decide not to force firefox 33 to use the html5 player? I thought they were planning to do that but flash still works for me today. Anybody know why this didn't happen?
http://www.ghacks.net/2014/07/17/google-enforces-html5-youtube-firefox-33-newer/
For your games, you can have your default library on the larger drive, and move them using this bad boy. That way, you can flip games on demand to conserve space. Ive tried it and it works great, but as Im not playing much that requires load times faster than what a 7200 can provide, I stopped using it.
I personally have a 64 GB drive, and my windows install after optimization leaves around 45 gigs free. I have no files indexed, hybernation disabled and turned a few other features off too, so YMMV. There is an SSD optimization guide on the OCZ forums that shows step by step how to do it (or just YouTube SSD optimization). Try to keep some space free, as SSDs slow down tremendously once they get close to full. If you have a secondary drive, you can edit your registry quite easily to set your install drive as the larger drive. Makes downloading big files or saving things in the future so much easier than having to download and move things right away
You're reading RAM usage for Chrome wrong: its usage is the sum of all its processes and it's certainly not just 54MiB.
Also, LastPass is known to severely reduce performance lately, and you might want to remove WOT as it's been removed due to privacy concerns.
If you have general performance issues you could try the 64bit version, enable e10s by disabling incompatible extensions (Add-on Compatibility Reporter should help you with that), and download and update the drivers for your GPU from its manufacturer's official site. If you still have issues, post screenshots of the App Basics and Graphics sections from your about:support.
PSA:Hola bad. Please do not use Hola guys.. it is a major security risk from a shady company.
There are no real free alternatives that I know of, and if they exist I would be wary that they are the same deal. If you want to view other countries netflix selections safely you are going to have spend a few dollars a month for a private VPN.
Be safe Agents.
The whole switch person feature is pointless as long as it doesn't allow you to password lock a user.
I found out that you used to be able to do just that when the feature was still experimental. Of course, Google being Google, decided it would make the most sense to remove such useless silly thing for the public release. I guess they realised employing common sense and not dumbing down the UI with every update would be bad business practice.
Thought I'd give a brief synopsis for anyone trying to catch up.
The facts as we know them:
1.) The Pirate Bay, it's forum Suprbay.org, Bayimg.com, and Pastebay.net have been down since early early Tuesday morning.
--Torrents still work through the backups that are around, though no seeder/leecher meta data and no new stuff from tpb.
Source: Personal experience and common knowledge.
2.) Swedish police have confirmed to torrentfreak that they participated in a raid which targeted a data center in Nacka which is built into a mountain and stated, "yes it was pirate bay".
--Further reports suggest it was specifically the front end load balancer taken down.
Source: https://torrentfreak.com/swedish-police-raid-the-pirate-bay-site-offline-141209/
3.) The ".cr" domain is not real.
--This is backed by torrentfreak, and a number of firsthand accounts.
--The ".cr" domain seems to redirect to another site now and further attempts to charge for "access" to torrents.
--There are countless sites trying to make a quick buck on this moment of confusion.
Source: http://www.ghacks.net/2014/12/10/beware-of-fake-pirate-bay-copycat-sites/
4.) Peter Sunde (one of the 3 co-founders) stated that he hopes it stays down and for something better to evolve.
Source: http://consumerist.com/2014/12/10/convicted-pirate-bay-co-founder-says-site-should-stay-shuttered/
Hope it helps. Feel free to post any additional information or correct me. Be sure to link sources.
where do you get the idea that firefox is (still) a memory hog? i thought that was old news that was addressed long ago? i just did a quick search and http://www.ghacks.net/2014/01/02/chrome-34-firefox-29-internet-explorer-11-memory-use-2014/ seems to show it's fine. http://blog.en.uptodown.com/browser-comparison-chrome-firefox-explorer-opera/ also doesn't show anything unusual (both those from this year).
People seem to be over reacting to this.....
Mainly because this is a terrible story from a terrible site
http://www.ghacks.net/2014/02/11/mozillas-directory-tiles-ads-better-user-experience/
>Mozilla announced today that it will start selling ads in Firefox soon. But, it won't be as bad as it sounds at first as the ads will only be placed in a single location that existing Firefox users won't really be exposed to at all, and new ones not for long.
no idea. it doesn't do anything when I click it.
edit: I just remembered that I installed an addon for chrome
http://www.ghacks.net/2011/11/18/track-amazon-steam-prices-with-that-is-worth-for-chrome/
You can cut out some of windows 10 bullshit with these tools.
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/08/14/comparison-of-windows-10-privacy-tools/
As always before making any system changes: Back up important data.
You can't. But probably you can try
http://www.ghacks.net/2016/08/29/download-updates-from-microsofts-update-catalog-without-ie/
Good luck with the new "improved" update model. By the way, my W7 is "checking for updates" since yesterday... Sooo much improved, yeah. /s
Yes, but this was a mandatory upgrade for all Windows 10 users who took the free upgrade from a previous version of Windows. It also pruned out some Windows 10 pro features and moved them to Enterprise.
These specific policies that were pruned out aren't super important in 99% of environments, but it was a change made.
There are options to opt out of everything listed here. If I've overlooked something, then feel free to consider your options. Thanks -
I've used Firefox for a long time, and want to note that I created an account just to post this response. I think that sometimes we read headlines and about 20% of any given page before coming to a final conclusion. I'm asking that anyone ready to jump ship re-read the posted link, and the items I've listed below.
Yes, they do have "marketing features", however, they are so freaking honest about it that it's almost weird for a software product in 2016.
Take the time to re-read the link, and expand the tabs. They provide ways to opt out of all of it. There has been the user.js file since version 1? 2? that allows you to keep your config (about:config) options and throw it in any Firefox install folder. Heck, upload it to GitHub or back it up anywhere you want.
I've used the community project hosted over at ghacks as a "base" user.js for a while. It is probably the most comments/SLOC for any JS file I've seen. Good stuff, really. So you can even be lazy and pick the parts you want to block (Hint: DONT blindly copy and paste this as your settings. Read it and decide which parts of Firefox you'd like to change)
http://www.ghacks.net/files/user.js%20[ghacks]-0.08-light.html
There is a longer list of the updates lower down.
The Major updates happened in and around august of last year - this article lists some of those.
So you might not like it, but /u/J_Ardent is absolutely correct in that microsoft has in fact has updated the tools it uses to collect data on it's older operating systems.
Though to note: I would not trust apple to be not collecting data - as data is useful in figuring out what tweaks to the OS will inevitably make the most people happy in the long term by removing unused tools or systems which frees up resources, and optimizes the rest of the system to run better.
The built-in ones were removed...
I think. I never used them, just going off of everyone else.
EDIT: Are going to be removed soon. Random search result.
Not standards but actual practice:
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/11/22/google-search-results-on-firefox-mobile-limited-in-comparison-to-chrome/
Facebook also does this by serving low-res content to FF android users.
Outlook has neat animations on chrome/opera. Nothing for FF Desktop
Make sure you are updated and restarted if there was any updates
Follow this guide that uses a tool: http://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/08/how-to-display-the-windows-10-upgrade-icon-if-it-is-not-visible/
It worked for me as I'm helping four people upgrade and had to use this tool twice.
>And they could still block at the router by filtering MACs, for instance.
There are ways to change the MAC address on both Windows and Linux:
Warnings:
First of all, always be careful whenever you're changing system stuff. Don't do anything if you're not sure what you are doing.
Second of all, changing the MAC address will mean that the new MAC address will show up in the router's list, which will look suspicious.
It's only up to you to decide if the risk/reward is worth it. Like what OP said about removing parental control software, they can find out.
A blacklist means that the router has a list of MAC addresses to block, and everything else is allowed.
A whitelist means that the router has a list of MAC addresses to allow, and everything else is blocked.
Changing the MAC address to something already used by another device (the addresses in the whitelist would be) will cause problems. So if your router is using a whitelist, I can't really think of a way around that.
http://www.ghacks.net/2014/01/30/first-public-beta-malwarebytes-anti-malware-2-0-now-available/
It will cost $24.95 per year.
Seems KB4012218 on 7 and KB4012219 on 8.1 are the ones to watch out.
I find it little odd that ms is getting back to that pusher policy, it's not so long ago that they last apologised their over aggressive attempts to get everyone on 10. This is just way to show not much have changed... For making x86 compatible products to make pray they won't cut the compatibility. Guess it's back to ms-dos then since it's still compatible, that is until it'll have patch too.