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## Tech Help

### Possible Firefox Bug/Vista Nightmare - Page 1

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#### Possible Firefox Bug/Vista Nightmare

Posted by: Wild MissingNo. appeared
Date: 2010-06-26 10:26:53
Okay, as of late I have no idea what the hell is going on with either my Firefox or Vista. Whenever Firefox "Freezes"/"Not Responding". the skin turns to Vista Basic (Like it does when I have my VBA on), but when I load Firefox again, so I can have something running on another window instead of slowing down Caesary, but it ends up like this:
http://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz140/ShadowHeroDragon/FirefoxWeirdness.png
Also, if other's are trying to help me, please don't keep saying downgrade/upgrade, because each time that happens things go into chaos, so I'm not losing my data again over the fact Vista has too many flaws, or the new Firefox version has a bug. I don't remember this happening with Firefox 3.5.3, so it's either a bug or my Vista's causing trouble again.

#### Re: Possible Firefox Bug/Vista Nightmare

Posted by: GARYM9
Date: 2010-06-26 10:51:41
Just get Opera. (http://opera.com) Firefox has become full of crashes/freezes due to lazy developers.
(Opera loads like 500x faster than Firefox anyway, and you can customize it, etc.)

#### Re: Possible Firefox Bug/Vista Nightmare

Posted by: Wild MissingNo. appeared
Date: 2010-06-26 11:05:41
I can't use IE8 - it doesn't agree with my Vista, (what doesn't), I have Comodo Web browser is like Google Chrome but with it's own cool other things. I read that there's going to be a Firefox 4, and I got a feeling, it'll end up like Firefox 3.6.4.

#### Re: Possible Firefox Bug/Vista Nightmare

Posted by: GARYM9
Date: 2010-06-26 11:11:17
Yes, just completely ignore what I say like always.
Edit: Oh I forgot, also switch subjects to something unrelated but still related enough to be "on topic"

#### Re: Possible Firefox Bug/Vista Nightmare

Posted by: Wild MissingNo. appeared
Date: 2010-06-26 11:19:14
Even if I do go back on topic I still get a stupid threat. If people hate that much, then I'd say I could care less.
Anyway, Vista's really getting to a point, that I think I'll be going through another data loss, as of late, Vista's been running slow, I've ran scans, nothing has appeared, a lot of things has crashed, and half the time, Windows Task bar, crashes, as I've had a lot of updates as of late, and wondered if the updates could be the cause for Vista's odd behavior.

#### Re: Possible Firefox Bug/Vista Nightmare

Posted by: GARYM9
Date: 2010-06-26 11:21:43
The grey firefox window is due to not having enough RAM in your computer.

#### Re: Possible Firefox Bug/Vista Nightmare

Posted by: Wild MissingNo. appeared
Date: 2010-06-26 11:40:02
I've not had that gray screen with any older versions of Firefox. Vista's again crashing everything running, ever since I had these updates, my Vista's been weird.

#### Re: Possible Firefox Bug/Vista Nightmare

Posted by: Axaj
Date: 2010-06-26 13:29:03

> I've not had that gray screen with any older versions of Firefox. Vista's again crashing everything running, ever since I had these updates, my Vista's been weird.

Maybe the updates are using up/reserving more RAM for system processes which in turn makes programs run out of RAM? By the way, how much RAM do you have in your computer?

#### Re: Possible Firefox Bug/Vista Nightmare

Posted by: SCared_Fir3
Date: 2010-06-26 13:55:29
I'm pretty sure Gary's right on all of this so maybe you should read his posts….

#### Re: Possible Firefox Bug/Vista Nightmare

Posted by: Wild MissingNo. appeared
Date: 2010-06-26 14:38:34
The system says 1.00GB, but it must be more or less than that. I'd gotten this update in which gave me Windows PowerShell, and Silverlight, (last year), but I don't use either.

#### Re: Possible Firefox Bug/Vista Nightmare

Posted by: Ketsuban
Date: 2010-06-26 15:03:03

> Just get Opera. (http://opera.com) Firefox has become full of crashes/freezes due to lazy developers.
> (Opera loads like 500x faster than Firefox anyway, and you can customize it, etc.)

> I can't use IE8 - it doesn't agree with my Vista, (what doesn't), I have Comodo Web browser is like Google Chrome but with it's own cool other things. I read that there's going to be a Firefox 4, and I got a feeling, it'll end up like Firefox 3.6.4.

¬_¬
Quit your kvetching. GARY's right – I know from personal experience that Opera is many times faster and more stable than Firefox.

#### Re: Possible Firefox Bug/Vista Nightmare

Posted by: Axaj
Date: 2010-06-26 15:30:01

> The system says 1.00GB, but it must be more or less than that. I'd gotten this update in which gave me Windows PowerShell, and Silverlight, (last year), but I don't use either.

Oh dear. You'll probably need at least 2GB of RAM with Vista; it's quite the RAM hog.

#### Re: Possible Firefox Bug/Vista Nightmare

Posted by: Wild MissingNo. appeared
Date: 2010-06-26 15:50:51
I've noticed it's also a Hard drive hog, it keeps draining my Drive C, I'll be glad when I go back to XP, at lest that weren't such a pain, other than my PC did have problems with Drive C - lack of space. I don't know how to get RAM for a laptop, I know for a PC you can buy RAM cards, but for a laptop I don't know. I'd remove Silverlight, and PowerShell, but last time I removed Silverlight, (I heard it doesn't do anything), I'd gotten Blue Screens of Death. What can I do without risk of data loss? Linux well most likely Wine can't run Guild Wars, as the game is a powerful game, and Wine can't handle a game at that mount of graphics.

#### Re: Possible Firefox Bug/Vista Nightmare

Posted by: Stackout
Date: 2010-06-26 15:58:14
Yami, try using Google Chrome.
Best (and most secure) browser ever. In my opinion.
Ever since I downloaded it to test a website on it, it's been my browser of choice.

#### Re: Possible Firefox Bug/Vista Nightmare

Posted by: Wild MissingNo. appeared
Date: 2010-06-26 16:30:17
I'm too attached to Opera, at the moment, it's taken me an hour or two to get all my bookmarks from Firefox to Opera. Win 7 is bad, it's a processor hog, as people from a guild I'm in on GW have told me that Win 7 is a hog for everything, power, RAM, drive space, all sorts. I need something that can last until I get a new PC for my 22nd birthday, I doubt Linux would work on here again, after last time, also I can't downgrade without data loss, so I'm stuck with Vista. I don't know any other OS that won't be a risk of data loss, require too much (like Win7 does).
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