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Postby boingo on Fri Oct 10, 2008 3:54 am

Is anyone else having problems with this? It's not working at all for me today.
Presumably it's just my computer still screwed which is why I'm currently doing a clean install of everything on another hard drive. :?
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Postby jinjin on Fri Oct 10, 2008 5:41 am

I use Adblock Plus 0.7.5.5 with Firefox 3.0.3 and have not noticed anything unusual. It is working reliably for me.
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Postby boingo on Fri Oct 10, 2008 5:33 pm

Thanks JinJin
I've got the same version of Firefox and Adblock Plus too. My systems really screwed up, so it must be something else. Firefox crashes a lot too, as do other programs. Windows isn't managing memory properly either.
I am slowly doing a rebuild on a new removable hard drive, so it only takes five minutes to swap them, but it takes sooooooooooo long to install, update and set up all the programs I use. I think last time it took over ten hours to complete it all. So far it's been just over five hours and all I've installed is Windows and my antivirus software. I had to let it do a system scan after the updates to the antivirus too, so that took nearly two hours of the 5+ hours so far.

I did have an incremental back-up of my last good installation, with the use of Acronis True Image, but that was a waste of time and money because it didn't work. The program kept changing which disc it wanted, but didn't copy any data from any disc.
I hate Norton Products due to similar experiences before, but I couldn't get an alternative so I bought Ghost. I just hope that works for back-ups because it failed to copy the operating system from one hard drive to another during initial testing. :?
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Why not try Linux?

Postby Colonel Bunter on Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:25 pm

I had the same problems - and many others besides - when I ran Windows. But last year I dumped it for Fedora Linux, which is free, efficient, fast and rock-steady: I wouldn't go back to Windows if you paid me. I still use some programs designed for MS; they run well under a Linux emulator.

Firefox runs perfectly too and never crashes, whilst ABP (and the very wonderful FlashBlock) work just as they should, and all this on an old, i386 256MB RAM laptop.

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Postby The Colonel on Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:47 pm

I'm the only real Colonel here.
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Postby cosmicB on Tue Oct 14, 2008 3:43 am

I had a lot of problems with AdBlock in SeaMonkey...
Me thinks it's contradictions between AdBlock and Macromedia's Ad Softwares...

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Postby cosmicB on Tue Oct 14, 2008 3:52 pm

[quote="The Colonel"]I'm the only [b]real[/b] Colonel here.[/quote]



You would be shocked to discover who is behind some of those silly little handles...
More than colonels I'll tell you... Some "eat colonels for breakfast"...

Correction: I meant "suck them in the morning", and visa-versa probably, all depending upon ones status as a man, or less, or something..?


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