Okay, FF 66 has been released and been patched in just daze, explain stuff to me?

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First of all, FF 65 in 32 bit was always crashing like a drunk driver, mainly on MSN or Yahoo.

So FF 66.0 was released last week, it didn't change much. Maybe crashed more.

I'm dealing with a 32 bit Dell and Windows 7 here of course. 6 GB of 800 MHz RAM IIRC.

Core2 Duo 6300 at 1.86? GHz per core. Sorta Rihanna and not Madonna.

Emily to be exact. :D 2006ish

Okay, I know what is happening when FF hangs and forces a hard shutdown...at least one of the e10 processes gets really full, sometimes 1 GB.

Now, 66.0 came out and the default number of e10 processes was DOUBLED to EIGHT. That only froze it 2x as fast.

Now if I have to be blunt, I could leave open 50 pages of porn with some being video and it would run for hours but two sites kill it?

Suuuuure.

But here is the doozy...

Yesterday they apparently released a patch, 66.0.1 and it involved two critical exploitable memory issues, which may have also been around for a while and could cause buffer overflows that might have been related to my problems.

But 64 bit worked much better. Still. My other two 64 bit machines are running Linux, unless I can get a license for Wylla, and I'm reluctant to use Linux Mint on her for the so-far lack of drivers for card readers that I have. What is the point of that?

None of this stuff is going to run 10 well, not even Alison now. I have FOUR running computers and I'm working on trying to get Valerie going again in a new case, just to save the Win 7 drive. I blew a few chunks out from her fan shroud's base after buying another can of air this month. Hyperthreading 2.6 GHz P4 or not, that Intel 965 will either live or die.

And I reset the 310 for 2 instead of four eqos, It doesn't really matter as the Task Manager still lists 5 or more Firefoxes...okay FOUR and not much over 120K right now.

I'll have to do some 'power' usage for a while today and see what happens, if two sites are still killing me and what more to do.

Just do me a favor and don't try and tell me Chrome is so freaking better, I don't care. I give them You Tube and that's about it.
 

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Nekkid chicks si, news about Trump, no.
 

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Well I did find the instance MSN was running on and caused it to crash and go to the home page by ending the process tree. My Outlook Mail tab stayed open.
 

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Well I did find the instance MSN was running on and caused it to crash and go to the home page by ending the process tree. My Outlook Mail tab stayed open.
 

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I was able to get a couple of those instances up there in the 500K+ area before I ended the process trees on purpose, one by one until I lost the whole browser.

I still have some tweaking to do if they left me any room for it. I haven't frozen yet, but it's a pain when it wants to automatically reopen all the previous session without asking, so I shall whip it soundly and withhold it's supper. :thin:
 

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Well, this release has certainly had more drama than All My Children...

Earlier this week something happened that disabled all of the add-ons and extensions at some point. 66.0.4 was brought out to fix this and now 66.0.5 is out with claims to have addressed the remaining issues.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/66.0.5/releasenotes/ Have a gander at that for yourselves. That is quite the number of revisions for FF of late. Not as bad maybe as the mess called Windows 10 1903, the fail that keeps on failing.
 

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Firefox failed for me (no available bookmarks, no ability to reload saved bookmarks, no ability to add new bookmarks) so I shifted to Chrome. I hated to do that, but the folks at FF were unresponsive to me and others who had the same problem after a revision several weeks ago. I have had no issues with Chrome.
 

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To bookmark you click on the empty star icon in the address bar and save.

If you need to import IE bookmarks or FF bookmarks etc there is a way, or more than one to do that, maybe they just didn't tell you enough...

One is that FF bookmarks are apparently in a certain file that you can copy to a thumb drive/external storage and replace the file on the new installation. The next is that there is actually a import/export routine in FF and I read this on another site (like ghacks or something, have to find the BOOKMARK).

No, it's not obvious from just looking at the menus at first.
 

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PS Mark, the problems you had were being addressed in a number of updates. In maybe a month or less they went from FF 66.0 to the current 66.0.5, which is sorta crazy but they seem to have responded as quickly as possible...you may/may not get feedback from them on your bug reports/complaints and I'm sure a lot of folks raised it.

Firefox is created by a volunteer organization (Mozilla), much like some Linux development. It came out of Netscape after AOL got ahold and done with it.

But yes, these daze if people don't find you Ready For Prime Time you don't get a break because you're Gilda and extremely charming.
 

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Firefox is a constant update stream. It's a living & breathing piece of software.

Learn that ... and profit !
 

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As if anything else ISN'T...all I know is that people keep thinking they are doing me a favor giving me computers with unactivated Windows 10 and that may work mostly but still costs ME $130 times however many. Bankrupting with kindness is such BS. I have the bike shop closing on the 25th, good riding weather and wonder if this is the last year or so of my life for health reasons and on top of that I've been spring cleaning since winter. What the hell, to hijack my own thread...
 

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I've hinted at that 3-user pack for 7, I'm not averse to getting that but I don't deal directly with Amazon and maybe riding these crazy bikes I build is more fun than guessing if Windows 10 1903 will mess everything up anyway. Microsoft isn't all that good with updates anymore.

And I have the wheels on the way for my '62 Higgins Flightliner...but I have to be online to learn stuff and riding is a lot better for your kidneys.

PS Most of what goes into these things I've had for years. I'm decluttering, no nod to that Japanese chick.
 

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As if anything else ISN'T...all I know is that people keep thinking they are doing me a favor giving me computers with unactivated Windows 10 and that may work mostly but still costs ME $130 times however many. Bankrupting with kindness is such BS. I have the bike shop closing on the 25th, good riding weather and wonder if this is the last year or so of my life for health reasons and on top of that I've been spring cleaning since winter. What the hell, to hijack my own thread...
If any of the machines have a MS OEM sticker on them, you can use that as a license to activate, upgrade or downgrade your Windows OS. I have done it and it works. Don't have any stickers on your machine? Go to Best Buy and copy the numbers from another sticker. Easy peasy.
 

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To bookmark you click on the empty star icon in the address bar and save.

If you need to import IE bookmarks or FF bookmarks etc there is a way, or more than one to do that, maybe they just didn't tell you enough...

One is that FF bookmarks are apparently in a certain file that you can copy to a thumb drive/external storage and replace the file on the new installation. The next is that there is actually a import/export routine in FF and I read this on another site (like ghacks or something, have to find the BOOKMARK).

No, it's not obvious from just looking at the menus at first.
I had about 350 bookmarks.

Did all that and then some. Each time I tried to import/restore the bookmark file from the html source, thumbdrive, or hard drive location, I got an error. The error I was getting said "The file you are requesting is in use by another application." I reloaded Windows 10 and updated Windows 10. I backed into the prior Mozilla revision, no luck. I waited for two new FF revisions, no luck. You could not measure the amount of frustration I was experiencing with a mile-long micrometer.

I finally gave up and downloaded Chrome. It took my last bookmark archive from a file on the desktop the first time with no errors.
 

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If any of the machines have a MS OEM sticker on them, you can use that as a license to activate, upgrade or downgrade your Windows OS. I have done it and it works. Don't have any stickers on your machine? Go to Best Buy and copy the numbers from another sticker. Easy peasy.
Do you mean STAPLES?

And the XPS was a VISTA machine, no traces of the former tag, the other one is an ASUS motherboard in a Thermaltake case without a door.

Hang on and I'll get my bookmarks on it together...I've sorta found that 70% of them were extraneous anyway and I used the HTML bookmarks file to manually click the links and add. I'm an internet packrat as well as a physical one.
 

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If any of the machines have a MS OEM sticker on them, you can use that as a license to activate, upgrade or downgrade your Windows OS. I have done it and it works. Don't have any stickers on your machine? Go to Best Buy and copy the numbers from another sticker. Easy peasy.
Shame on you for admitting it ...
 

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Do you mean STAPLES?

And the XPS was a VISTA machine, no traces of the former tag, the other one is an ASUS motherboard in a Thermaltake case without a door.

Hang on and I'll get my bookmarks on it together...I've sorta found that 70% of them were extraneous anyway and I used the HTML bookmarks file to manually click the links and add. I'm an internet packrat as well as a physical one.
Or STAPLES! Or even go to a college/university/tradeschool any place where they have Windows machines.
I have a product key for Windows XP Professional and Windows 7 Pro. I don't have a Windows 10 product key.
 

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Now do you see why I keep fixing all of this 'old, obsolete junk'?

BTW THIS one is running an activated copy of 7. I haven't had a STOP in about two daze now, hopefully I'm getting that figured out.

I have my friends taking caring of this one...

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