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On 06/03/2018 10:03 AM, Char Jackson wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jun 2018 12:00:15 +0100, mechanic wrote: On Sat, 2 Jun 2018 12:49:00 -0700, freenewser wrote: Suggestions please. Need for Win XP Pro and Win 7 Pro FireFox keeps stealing 50% of my CPU !!! What about Vivaldi ? Others ? Want to get away from Mozilla. You don't have Edge on Windows 7? Dark ages or what! Edge works great to download a proper browser. Ah, so that's what it's for! Rene |
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On Sun, 3 Jun 2018 08:26:01 -0400, Mayayana wrote:
"PeterC" wrote | Using PM 27.9.2. "network.predictor.enabled" is there and not bold, so I | assume that it's standard Sounds like it. I'm using v. 24, the last for XP. Mine seems to date from 2014. (I keep thinking of switching to SeaMonkey, which still has an XP version, but never quite get around to trying it.) The links I found relating to the setting date from 2015 and mentioned that it had been "set to default to true again". Apparently it had been called "seer", they changed the name, then set it to run. I don't remember the seer setting or whether that defaulted to true. Either way, as you may already know, the setting causes pages to load if you just hover over the link. So it's not so much "predictor" as "network.halfwit.over-reactor". I think of these kinds of settings as sleazy attempts to hide incompetence. Like the MS Office, Firefox and Libre Office pre-loaders. Instead of putting an effort into making the program lean they make it even more bloated in order to make it *appear* more lean: The program seems to start up fast because it's already running. The pages seem to load fast because they're already loaded. In this case it also adds a whole new dimension to privacy and security issues. People end up visiting numerous sites they never knew they visited. I don't know why it's there - it's disabled and, as it's not in bold, that would be the default setting. -- Peter. The gods will stay away whilst religions hold sway --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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On 02 Jun 2018, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote
in alt.windows7.general: What are some of his others, if he _is_ a nymshifter? "If"??? NoonName "NoonName Locker Firedup Nat Filbert freenewser freeof10 "freeof10 |
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freenewser wrote in newseusdl$2r1d$2
@adenine.netfront.net: Suggestions please. Need for Win XP Pro and Win 7 Pro FireFox keeps stealing 50% of my CPU !!! What about Vivaldi ? Others ? Want to get away from Mozilla. QTWeb hasn't been updated since 2013, but it has a nice set of built-in features and privacy controls (including a limited ad blocker) and is very lightweight: the standalone version is a single file which requires no installation. http://qtweb.net/ |
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Char Jackson wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jun 2018 12:00:15 +0100, mechanic wrote: On Sat, 2 Jun 2018 12:49:00 -0700, freenewser wrote: Suggestions please. Need for Win XP Pro and Win 7 Pro FireFox keeps stealing 50% of my CPU !!! What about Vivaldi ? Others ? Want to get away from Mozilla. You don't have Edge on Windows 7? Dark ages or what! Edge works great to download a proper browser. Aha! We've finally found a single fan for MSEdge :-) The MS Public Relations team will be out to shoot a picture of you, for promotional purposes. Paul |
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In message , Nil
writes: On 02 Jun 2018, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in alt.windows7.general: What are some of his others, if he _is_ a nymshifter? "If"??? NoonName "NoonName Locker Firedup Nat Filbert freenewser freeof10 "freeof10 OK, OK. Let him get on with looking for a weight browser. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf I have never liked children, even when I was one. - Miriam Margolyes (RT 2014/11/1-7) |
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In message , Paul
writes: Char Jackson wrote: On Sun, 3 Jun 2018 12:00:15 +0100, mechanic wrote: [] You don't have Edge on Windows 7? Dark ages or what! Edge works great to download a proper browser. Aha! We've finally found a single fan for MSEdge :-) I think you'll find Char wasn't being a fan of it (-:! The MS Public Relations team will be out to shoot a picture of you, for promotional purposes. Paul Or, if they read more carefully what he said, just to shoot him. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf I have never liked children, even when I was one. - Miriam Margolyes (RT 2014/11/1-7) |
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On Sun, 3 Jun 2018 22:09:28 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote: In message , Paul writes: Char Jackson wrote: On Sun, 3 Jun 2018 12:00:15 +0100, mechanic wrote: [] You don't have Edge on Windows 7? Dark ages or what! Edge works great to download a proper browser. Aha! We've finally found a single fan for MSEdge :-) I think you'll find Char wasn't being a fan of it (-:! Yes, I had to read it twice before I realized it. |
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On Sun, 03 Jun 2018 14:39:20 -0400, Nil
wrote: On 02 Jun 2018, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in alt.windows7.general: What are some of his others, if he _is_ a nymshifter? "If"??? Please change the subject line when you change the subject, so we don't have to download the bodies of irrelevant messages. -- Steve Hayes http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm http://khanya.wordpress.com |
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On 04 Jun 2018, Steve Hayes wrote in
alt.windows7.general: On Sun, 03 Jun 2018 14:39:20 -0400, Nil wrote: On 02 Jun 2018, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in alt.windows7.general: What are some of his others, if he _is_ a nymshifter? "If"??? Please change the subject line when you change the subject, so we don't have to download the bodies of irrelevant messages. Should I ever post an irrelevent message, perhaps I might. |
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On Sun, 03 Jun 2018 16:15:30 -0400, Paul wrote:
Char Jackson wrote: On Sun, 3 Jun 2018 12:00:15 +0100, mechanic wrote: On Sat, 2 Jun 2018 12:49:00 -0700, freenewser wrote: Suggestions please. Need for Win XP Pro and Win 7 Pro FireFox keeps stealing 50% of my CPU !!! What about Vivaldi ? Others ? Want to get away from Mozilla. You don't have Edge on Windows 7? Dark ages or what! Edge works great to download a proper browser. Aha! We've finally found a single fan for MSEdge :-) The MS Public Relations team will be out to shoot a picture of you, for promotional purposes. When they shoot that picture, feel free to zoom in to see that I'm simply downloading Firefox. ;-) -- Char Jackson |
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On 04 Jun 2018, Steve Hayes wrote in
alt.windows7.general: Please change the subject line when you change the subject, so we don't have to download the bodies of irrelevant messages. No, I don't think I will. Threads drift and there's nothing you can do about it. |
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In message , Nil
writes: On 04 Jun 2018, Steve Hayes wrote in alt.windows7.general: Please change the subject line when you change the subject, so we don't have to download the bodies of irrelevant messages. No, I don't think I will. Threads drift and there's nothing you can do about it. Yes, but there's nothing stopping you from changing the subject line when they do. I do if I'm changing the content, or posting a followup that mostly links to the O-original-T content. Some newsreaders that put posts into threads (i. e. the usual way) don't always change the subject shown, though. (Some do once the oldest post they retain in the thread has the changed subject - though these days a lot of people, I understand, don't expire postings.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf .... the greatest musical festival in the world that doesn't involve mud. - Eddie Mair, RT 2014/8/16-22 |
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