John C. Dvorak asks what’s wrong with Firefox, and suggests forking as a possible solution. It sounds to me like one or more plugins he’s running is causing problems. I run Firefox on Vista (unfortunately), with as few plugins as possible, and I don’t have the issues he describes. Memory usage does spiral out of [...]
All posts for the day May 15th, 2012
Getting Firefox out of the doldrums
Posted by Dave Farquhar on May 15, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/05/getting-firefox-out-of-the-doldrums/
Doc, what security settings are you using on your network?
A reader who will remain anonymous (he can out himself if he wishes) sent me an interesting observation. He was in his doctor’s office last week, and out of curiosity, he ran a wifi scanner on his phone just to see what networks were available and how they were secured. What he saw wasn’t pretty. [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on May 15, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/05/doc-what-security-settings-are-you-using-on-your-network/