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A few days ago I installed IE8, as those friendly folk at Microsoft had been imploring me to do, and promptly all my web-browsing activities became like wading through molasses. Definitely there were some new features I liked, but . . .
So I tried doing a System Restore to get me back to IE7. The net result of this was that I lost web access entirely. Further, I couldn't even undo the System Restore because to do that involves going through Help, and Microsoft's Help is idiotically idiotically idiotically (did I remember to say it's idiotic?) web-bloody-based, so if you don't have web access you can't effing well . . .
You're there ahead of me, aren't you?
Anyway, darling
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pds_litvery kindly used her Mac and some googling to get me a download of IE7, which I duly installed. The installation did not in fact install IE7 -- it'd be too much to expect a Microsoft product to do what it says on the packet, wouldn't it? -- but it did install enough of something to allow me to access Help and thereby undo my System Restore. Finally, I was back on the web, but with slow-as-molasses IE8. Even slower now, if anything.
"Oh, dearie me," I think I might have said in the heat of the moment.
So I did some googling of my own and discovered this. Naturally I was a bit sceptical at first -- the blogger says he himself isn't quite sure why his tweak works -- but I did some cross-checking elsewhere and discovered that for some folk it worked while for others it at least had no adverse effects.
Reader, I'm going to marry him. Well, only if we can get married in Texas or Kentucky. The effect is (to date, at least) astonishing. As far as I can establish, which is difficult when you have so many fingers crossed, everything is now working quicker than it was under IE7.
Anyway, the point of this posting is, obviously, that if you've found the same extraordinary sluggishness with IE8 that I did, Ed Bott's tweak is well worth a try. Thank you, Mr Bott, whoever and wherever you are!
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I use Firefox at home. Or Epiphany. Or Midori. I tried Chrome once; it was kind of fun but not worth switching. There's also a 'port of Firefox called Iceweasel, which I find amusing, although I haven't used it.
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"we have uber-fast internet"
My guess is that it's the computer that determines this, not the internet connection -- Microsoft programs always use about five times the system resources they should on the idiotic assumption that everyone has the very latest and biggest hardware, and I suspect (although it's only "suspect") that the other way I could have solved the problem was to buy an extra gigabyte or three of memory, a faster chip, etc., etc., etc.
Microsoft reminds me of law colleges in so many respects . . .
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Just to let you know that yesterday I took my courage in both hands and installed Firefox. So far, so -- although it has some funny little ways I'm not yet used to -- good.
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And now you can install AdBlock Plus and discover WHY we all use Firefox! (Tools -> Add-ons -> Get Add-ons -> search box, find AdBlock Plus and click!)
Oodles of thanks for the tip! I'll go do that right now.
What I can't do with Firefox is reply to LJ comments via the "Post Reply" button on LJ's e-mails: I jest get an error message, so that I have to swear a lot and then try again via "View the thread" or whatever. Is there a way round this?
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If that's not the problem, then I'll have to ask Ben (my husband). He probably knows.
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All other links work fine, including those in LJ e-mails. The only thing that doesn't work is the ability to type my reply to a comment in the box in the LJ e-mail and then click the "Post Reply" button below the box.
I should hunt around my LJ options and see if there's something there that hasn't been checked.