Which browser is better???

[lti]

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I wonder if the Chrome updater was what I thought was malware here.

Should have seen my roommates' faces when they saw me bringing a 21" beige CRT in my room, along with a beige Dell QuietKey keyboard .

My dad wants me to throw away my old CRT monitor and replace it with one of those $89 widescreen monitors from Wal-Mart. My computer was made even before TVs were widescreen, and my desk is only big enough for a 15" CRT or 17" LCD anyway.

[ratdude747]

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I wonder if the Chrome updater was what I thought was malware here.



My dad wants me to throw away my old CRT monitor and replace it with one of those $89 widescreen monitors from Wal-Mart. My computer was made even before TVs were widescreen, and my desk is only big enough for a 15" CRT or 17" LCD anyway.

Agreed that the wally world lcds suck. Heck, one can sometimes get 17" 1280x1024 used ones for far far less. As in $10 plus a recap.

[momaka]

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[QUOTE=lti;306937]I wonder if the Chrome updater was what I thought was malware here.
Could be.
Get Sysinternals Process Explorer and see if setup.exe is associated or running under any other process.

My dad wants me to throw away my old CRT monitor and replace it with one of those $89 widescreen monitors from Wal-Mart. My computer was made even before TVs were widescreen, and my desk is only big enough for a 15" CRT or 17" LCD anyway.

Not worth the money (for a new monitor). Worth it if it's cheap or free. I got a 19" 5:4 Wisewing on CL for free a few years ago. Was actually decent inside. Just needed 4 CapXon caps replaced.

[mariushm]

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Search eBay for some cheap 19" lcd, in working condition. Should get one easily for 20-40$.

I'd dump the crt monitor even if it's good because in time it hurts your eyes. LCD monitors don't have flicker and rays and issues with convergence (and other things related to screen not beeing flat).

They also consume less power if the above don't help enough.

[lti]

Re: Which browser is better???

Could be.
Get Sysinternals Process Explorer and see if setup.exe is associated or running under any other process.

When I posted about every browser sucking, my laptop's fan suddenly spun up to full speed. A program called setup.exe started running, which claimed to be the updater for Chrome (Windows 7 shows the description for every running process). Chrome was installed from the factory, and I never uninstalled it, even though I don't use it because of the page loading issue.

Search eBay for some cheap 19" lcd, in working condition. Should get one easily for 20-40$.

I'd dump the crt monitor even if it's good because in time it hurts your eyes. LCD monitors don't have flicker and rays and issues with convergence (and other things related to screen not beeing flat).

They also consume less power if the above don't help enough.

I have a dead 17" LCD to repair. I just need to wait a few weeks for parts to arrive from China.

[momaka]

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I'd dump the crt monitor even if it's good because in time it hurts your eyes.

Off topic, but I have to say I disagree here. I use my computer a lot, especially in the late evenings when it's dark. LCD backlights are simply too bright for my eyes, and often I find that I cannot dim LCDs low enough to make them comfortable to use (if I dim them down too much, then they loose too much contrast). CRT doesn't have that problem because it does not use a backlight - you can dim it without loosing contrast. The only thing that you really need to make sure to do when using a CRT is to bump up the vertical refresh rate to no less than 85 Hz.

[Shocker]

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I'm getting sick of cut-off downloads in Firefox. It also will occasionally "cut off" a webpage and keep doing so for every subsequent time you (attempt to) load it until you clear the cache.

[momaka]

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For me, FF 3.6 is starting to give me grief with javascript on most Yahoo! pages. I blame Yahoo!, though - their pages always suck and run like shit even on decent computers.

[RJARRRPCGP]

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For me, FF 3.6 is starting to give me grief with javascript on most Yahoo! pages. I blame Yahoo!, though - their pages always suck and run like shit even on decent computers.

YouTube streaming is worse. Struggles, even with 14 Mb internet service!

YouTube can suck my dick for also nagging me to change my nick! That's harassment!

YouTube is soo pushy lately. Lately, a stinky my-way-or-the-highway 'tude!