Ragequit the Internet?

[Hondaman]

Is anyone else having slowdowns and crashes on the Net? Is anyone else having more and more bad experiences surfing?

I am. And I'm getting a bit pissed. I'm using a recent machine, Windows 7 64-bit, I think I have an OCZ ModX-Stream 600 PSU, decent security patches, and IE 9. My video card is the PCI-Express (x16) Gigabyte 6770 passive-cooled (GIANT fins, but I put a fan on it anyway). I run IE 9. (Firefox is version 24.0, but I never really use it anymore.)

Are webmasters driving the updates? Is Adobe? Is there any way to reduce crashes or bad experiences (give a later browser ID string, stop Java, whatever)?

Any help would be appreciated. (And BTW, please put answers.com into your hosts file. It has the most ads and is the least responsive and most buggy site I've ever seen.)

Please let me know any tricks you all might have. Thanks!

[pc7fan]

Re: Ragequit the Internet?

IE 9 IS the problem man upgrade it to 11 (it's available for a few months now) And firefox 24 is still better than IE9 by far but upgrade it to 32.0.1 (current version) then you won't shouldn't have any problems with web browsing. I had 9 and it always crashed on me, until 10 and 11, please upgrade the browser, it's at least 3 years old!

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

Re: Ragequit the Internet?

Yes, IE11 is okay if you insist to stick with the Microsoft browser. Or you can upgrade to the latest Firefox 32.0.

And if you're annoyed by ads, you don't need to block an entire site with your hosts file - Adblock Plus is your friend. And yes it's available for IE too.

[pc7fan]

Re: Ragequit the Internet?

^ I agree
If he only uses IE then OK, but upgrading it to 11 will the best option for that scenario

[Hondaman]

Re: Ragequit the Internet?

Do you remember when IE 6 was so buggy we were advised to switch browsers? Even after this was known, I believe businesses were slow to switch away from IE6 (and doesn't everyone want to wait longer between upgrade cycles?). Then all I heard was "the latest version of IE is so much better". Nobody told me why it was better (security, stability, support for more blinking crap). All we were told was "it is better" - no proof, no specifics. With Microsoft's reputation, I don't really believe it is better. And if security is improved "under the hood", "better" is not something that will be obvious to me either.

I guess I'll try IE 11 (meaning "I'm stuck with it forever"). But I don't know why web pages can't still be simple, and why we can't still use FF 3.6.x. Why do we have the "browser of the month", and when is my 8-core AMD 8150 with 16 GB of RAM going to be useless for web browsing because Adobe or someone wants me to buy another computer? Is the browser upgrade cycle related to Adobe, web standards, or the Windows upgrade cycle? Any ideas?

[goontron]

Re: Ragequit the Internet?

blame Micro$oft, my 10 year old dual core 2.65ghz pentium D based computer with 4gb of ram running linux can run (on average) 20 tabs in chrome all playing flash in the way of adds or soundcloud or iheart radio or youtube, a VM, thunderbird, Audacity, and usually a couple of bash windows. then it even has no issue when i start libreoffice, unlike that bloated M$ office.

[SteveNielsen]

Re: Ragequit the Internet?

Linux has come of age. It may not be the easiest choice for some people for vairious reasons but it's really not that difficult to get going with it, especially for a tech type person. It is no harder and actually faster to install than Windows on common hardware.

[kc8adu]

Re: Ragequit the Internet?

dump ie.
and firefox with adblock+ and a fat hosts file makes for a very effective internet shitfilter.

[shovenose]

Re: Ragequit the Internet?

The latest version of IE (11), Firefox (32), or Chrome (it updates itself, I think 37 is currently the latest) will give you a much better experience. it's not the fault of website owners, webmasters, or web hosting companies you are using out of date software.

[diif]

Re: Ragequit the Internet?

The Ghostery addon is another good reason to switch browsers.
If you must use Java, ensure it's always updated along with Flash. They were the two most compromised pieces of software last year.

[lti]

Re: Ragequit the Internet?

I had the same thing happen a few months ago, but turning power to the modem off and back on helped for a few days. When that happened, YouTube videos wouldn't load at all. The videos would switch between all the resolution options (with no network activity at all), and I'd eventually get a message saying that the only ISP in my area that can handle 480p video is Concast. Later, images wouldn't load, and power cycling the modem fixed that as well.

I don't like any browser right now. Chrome is bundled with so many other software downloads that I consider it to be the same kind of junk as the toolbars and registry cleaners that are also bundled with software downloads. Firefox has periodic CPU usage spikes that make the entire computer stop responding. I've attached a screenshot of Task Manager showing this, although the spikes are usually evenly spaced. Restarting Firefox solves this, but the same problem comes back after a while. IE seems to perform acceptably, but it takes an extremely long time to open and then claims that I need to disable add-ons that do not significantly affect the 30-second load time. When I accidentally clicked on the IE shortcut for the first time, it actually took a few minutes to start. Also, the idea that IE is only used by "I'm computer illiterate lol" people makes me not want to use it. This junk laptop already makes me look stupid.

Why is switching to Linux the "solution" to every computer problem?

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

Re: Ragequit the Internet?

I don't like any browser right now. Chrome is bundled with so many other software downloads that I consider it to be the same kind of junk as the toolbars and registry cleaners that are also bundled with software downloads. Firefox has periodic CPU usage spikes that make the entire computer stop responding.

I'm getting the same with Firefox sometimes but for me it's enough to just close some pages and it goes back to normal. Since Opera switched to Chromium (it's now basically a skinned google chrome with even less features than the original) i was forced to return to good ole Fox.

IE11 is alright for me too. It opens almost instantly. But i do have a SSD in my laptop.

[pc7fan]

Re: Ragequit the Internet?

^ Reinstall Windows or check your hard drive because this isn't normal, even on 4GB of RAM! Firefox opens in 3-4 seconds with 4 addons after reboot and <1 sec after reopening Firefox. Same thing with Chrome

[SteveNielsen]

Re: Ragequit the Internet?

Why is switching to Linux the "solution" to every computer problem?

It isn't. It's a viable alternative though.

[lti]

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^ Reinstall Windows or check your hard drive because this isn't normal, even on 4GB of RAM! Firefox opens in 3-4 seconds with 4 addons after reboot and <1 sec after reopening Firefox. Same thing with Chrome

I've seen that happen on multiple computers, and Firefox loads almost instantly on the same computer that loads IE so slowly. This computer has a Toshiba hard drive that is almost two years old, so it will fail soon. It's still good right now.

[Jonny Accelerant]

Re: Ragequit the Internet?

Check Event Viewer for possible clues. The OP was too ambiguous for any kind of diagnosis. One suspect is a bad cable modem, possibly due to (drumroll)... BAD CAPS. Or power supply to the cable modem/wireless router. For example of it requires 12 VDC and it's only getting 10.5 VDC, it's going to be intermittent. Reinstalling the O/S is not going to fix that.

Google Updater is POS and frequently breaks, as does Adobe Updater, Java errors, etc... Event Viewer might give you a clue. Had one machine with intermittent performance issues because the never-used optical drive (that would be CD/DVD drive to you) was in the process of failing. Disconnect the cable and problem disappeared. Reinstalling the O/S wouldn't have fixed that one either.

Windows Defender scans in the background and doesn't tell you. I hate the POS. Scheduling issue, and Reinstalling the O/S isn't going to fix that either. Hard drive errors. I think chkdsk runs every time you install the O/S, so in that situation reinstalling the O/S would "fix it, but that that's the retard's route around the block and the more you emulate the behaviors of the retarded, the greater the chance that you'll turn into one, so I'd advise against this method.

Bad power supply and heat will both cause data corruption, which could include system files, and while reinstalling the O/S might fix the problem at first, it would just be a matter of time before the machine went wrong again, so again a retarded solution to a problem that's really just a symptom.

In case it's not obvious, there's a common thread here. First, giving just a few of the MANY possible causes for a intermittently functional operating system that have nothing to do with the Operating System, and also to closely link blindly reinstalling the Operating System with the existence of mental retardation. How people choose to connect those two is completely up to them, I make no specific mention of the primary way in which I usually see them connected which is the grim and white-knuckled determination, like a drunk making an accelerating beeline for the red & blue flashing lights of a police squad car on the side of the road, how some people react to any computer fart or belch with the suggestion to reinstall the operating system.

When instead they could be eating their 2 cookies and drinking their dixie cup of tropical punch flavored kool-aid, after all its snack time at the adult day care, isn't it?

Sometimes I wish they would change it up a bit, instead of chanting "Reinstall the Operating System" like a dome stadium filled with religious zealots experiencing LSD for the first time, maybe on those days when the moon is in Aries, they could suggest the User strike themselves in the gentials with a rubber mallet. Just to change things up a bit. It would be a somewhat better solution, since hitting yourself in the nuts with a rubber mallet is faster and easier than reinstalling the operating system, and even though it's painful, the benefit of that pain would be to teach those Users to not take computer repair advice from the retarded people online.