Speed up the internet!

[Explosive Sheep]

If you have an old/slow computer then I recommend that you try Google Chrome the new browser. Here's a link to it

It seems to work a treat (so far!), please let me know how you all get along with it and if it breaks Wass in any way! My tests make it about 4-5 times faster than Firefox 3 which is a great browser too.

Peace out,

Sheepy

[scotlady]

I keep getting a thingy pop up asking me if I wanna install it but never done it yet coz didnt know what it was or what it did. My laptop has hissy fits as it is so whats the chances of bigger hissy fits or maybe it calming it down, what would you do?

[bartyuk]

lol @ hissy fits

It would depend on the hissy fits lol If its problems with the browser then maybe but if its hardware hissy fits or operating system hissy fits then probably not..

Peace

[WassTaffy]

At first glance, I thought this thread said 'sheep up the internet' lolz

Mat

[scotlady]

Originally Posted by bartyuk

lol @ hissy fits

It would depend on the hissy fits lol If its problems with the browser then maybe but if its hardware hissy fits or operating system hissy fits then probably not..

Peace

lol I dunno what the hissy fits are, it just has them Hmm I'll keep an eye on what I'm doing when it has them I know sometimes firefox will just close for no reason, IE does that too but it takes longer to load that Firefox, msn has been lagging lately, yesterday it kept just freezing so I went on the other laptop & signed on there and it was the same doh so then again that aint my laptop is it lol. But oh I dunno lol. I'll just keep note of the hissy's it has & see if I can figure out who what where & why

[Explosive Sheep]

You can have lots of browsers and set your favorite one to be the default (it's not technical to do!)

Try em all out, I have to test out our pages on 5 different ones now plus the many versions of IE and firefox, eek

Anti Virus programs kill less powerful comps, get AVG Free which is lightweight and stops viruses just as well.

Also you should run "autoruns.exe" by microsoft which lets you see what programs run when you switch on your computer (half of which will be pre-loaders for MSN, itunes, toolbars etc.) and these aint necessary.

Anyhow's i'm blabbling on,

Have fun with making your computer run smoother, any probs then just post...

Sheepy

[gungod]

Run system mechanic, you can get the 30 day trial. It sorts out all my comp probs and after 30 days just uninstall it and add it again, job done.

[Cille]

I downloaded it and it is fast - but something is wrong with fonts - anyone know what i can do with that??

and: The Chatroom will not open at all :-(

Here is the difference between the 2 browsers:

[katymaty]

TY sheepy might try that, at the minute i use firefox,
i do have to say though i've always used AVG Free but version 8 really slowed me down, so i'm now using AVAST Free and it's soooooooo much better, it also updates automatically and doesn't freeze eveything up like AVG 8 did when it was updating, anyone else us AVAST? I'd be interested to know if it's as effective as AVG?
Thanks
Katy

[Explosive Sheep]

Yea that's an issue! Damm Google, I'll change is when i have spare min one day, it's pretty tricky to edit.

I'll give that antivirus a go, thanks katymaty

Originally Posted by Cille

I downloaded it and it is fast - but something is wrong with fonts - anyone know what i can do with that??

and: The Chatroom will not open at all :-(

Here is the difference between the 2 browsers: