Guest ezkerraldean Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 for ages my firefox has been playing up. after clicking on a link you often get redirected to some other totally random site, which obviously is rather annoying. i also can't save/download anything using it - e.g. going "save as" on an image in firefox will result in nothing being saved. no idea why. it also crashes every hour or so, for no reason. obviously i could update it or reinstall it or some shit, but i can't be arsed. anyone recommend me any fancy shiny browsers that have similar functionality but don't use reams of memory? (i still prefer winamp 2 over any other music player due to its tiny memory drain). i'm a massive noob when it comes to shit like this also i can't be fucked with any microsoft shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rabid Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 for ages my firefox has been playing up. after clicking on a link you often get redirected to some other totally random site, which obviously is rather annoying. You have malware, just to let you know. obviously i could update it or reinstall it or some shit, but i can't be arsed. anyone recommend me any fancy shiny browsers that have similar functionality but don't use reams of memory? (i still prefer winamp 2 over any other music player due to its tiny memory drain). i'm a massive noob when it comes to shit like this also i can't be fucked with any microsoft shit. Try opera. But download Malwarebytes first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ezkerraldean Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 You have malware, just to let you know. yeah, definitely something dodgy latched on there somewhere i'm normally pretty thorough with shit like that though. i save anything meaningful onto an external drive, and only have the OS and a few other bits of software on my laptop's own harddrive. i manually go through it every month and delete all the new files created in that month that aren't obviously legit updates and stuff. i guess i'm doing something wrong lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rabid Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 Yeah malware can be pretty sneaky. Run scans just to be safe. I'd also want to scan the external drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 Apparantly the browser of choice after FF is chrome. Give it a shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Benedict Cumberbatch Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 netscape navigator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delet... Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 just re-install Windows. it needs to be done every now and then anyway .. just like defragging .. and backing up .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 i love chrome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earth Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 Still using firefox, didn't really like chrome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siegecow Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 lol degreasing edit: lol defragging Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FortyTwo Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 I don't use Chrome because of data tracking shit. Try Opera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
encey Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 I don't use Chrome because of data tracking shit. Try Opera. calm the fuck down, do you REALLY think that your browsing habits - just YOURS - mean JACK SHIT TO ANYONE BUT YOU? your data might help define a demographic, but the second you looked at, let alone clicked a targeted ad you implicitly agreed to do things google's way. i'm ok with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 Alternatively, lynx is very lightweight and will speed up your browsing time immensely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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