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I'm running version 3.5.6 and have very rarely had a crash. But in the last few days another irritation's come up and it only seems to happen when in Pprune: hit the back button and one gets a blank screen and "Done" in the lower left-hand corner; the reload button brings the screen back.
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I've been running FF 3.6 beta 4 and then 5 for a while now. It's faster than 3.5.6 very stable and reads websites that 3.56 cant.
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Just loaded and ran latest FF, think it needs some fine tuning but it is fast loading, now if I could just figure out how to get rid of the bloody pop ups that seem to have infested FF on this machine I.d be happier.
Oh well back to opera.
Oh well back to opera.
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now if I could just figure out how to get rid of the bloody pop ups that seem to have infested FF on this machine I.d be happier.
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3.5.6 seems more stable, but with the previous version, I was experienced a crash a day with lots of tabs open, followed by a message 'woops, this is embarrassing, Firefox seems to be having trouble opening your tabs....', but then it would open them.
Thunderbird has also recently been playing up, refusing to manually get mail with a message 'please wait while the folder is being processed'. The only advice I found for this was for Macs, not Windows. Eventually seems to clear. I found with Outlook Express and Outlook, very large mail records messed up those programs, so I have been deleting swathes of historic emails to bring the mail file down to a more reasonable size.
Thunderbird has also recently been playing up, refusing to manually get mail with a message 'please wait while the folder is being processed'. The only advice I found for this was for Macs, not Windows. Eventually seems to clear. I found with Outlook Express and Outlook, very large mail records messed up those programs, so I have been deleting swathes of historic emails to bring the mail file down to a more reasonable size.
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Outlook seems to keep everything in one giant file - damage that in any way and your contacts list, your mail records, and everything else disappears. Back it up every day!
Thunderbird, if left to its own devices, buries its mail folders deep deep deep in your C-drive. It does, however, use lots of separate mail folders so a glitch in one doesn't goof up the rest.
It is possible, relatively easily (like under 15 minutes if all goes smoothly) to move your mail folder to somewhere you can find it and back it up automatically. Mine's in the imaginative location called I: \Mail - "I" is my Internet Stuff drive.
If you do that, it's a good idea to edit the master mail control file - called Profiles.ini - so that it points at the new location. Then, if you create new mail accounts it will put them in the right place.
It's also not very imaginative in what it calls the mail folders, but those too you can change to something more meaningful - you just have to tell it what they are.
Thunderbird, if left to its own devices, buries its mail folders deep deep deep in your C-drive. It does, however, use lots of separate mail folders so a glitch in one doesn't goof up the rest.
It is possible, relatively easily (like under 15 minutes if all goes smoothly) to move your mail folder to somewhere you can find it and back it up automatically. Mine's in the imaginative location called I: \Mail - "I" is my Internet Stuff drive.
If you do that, it's a good idea to edit the master mail control file - called Profiles.ini - so that it points at the new location. Then, if you create new mail accounts it will put them in the right place.
It's also not very imaginative in what it calls the mail folders, but those too you can change to something more meaningful - you just have to tell it what they are.
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Well blow me, very happy with 3.6b5 and it "upgrades itself" back to 3.5.6. reintstall 3.6b5 and it "upgrades itself" to 3.5.7 a couple of days later. Why can't I keep the beta I am happy with?
