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odc04r 
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I'd drop FB and keep Firefox. I know what's more useful.
Or use noscript and/or a greasemonkey script to keep nuisance JS to a minimum. |
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TENSiON
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Posted: 15 November 2012 at 5:54pm |
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FB and its relatives clogging up the browser with wasteful JS garbage?!
 How..."surprising"  "A bunch of 10yo kids let loose after a 6 hours long PHP-for-dummies turbo course + 3 hours of the same for JS" - Yea, I'm talking about FB "developers" in the first 2 years of its existence  They might have learned something over the past years, but it's still pretty much a catastrophy at times..It is true that FF has a history for clunky JS/memory handling (mostly the garbage/cycle collection engine), but in this case I would rather put the blame on the FB/game developers, especially their optimization skillz.. Try the Waterfox allready and see if it makes any difference.. There really is no adware/bloatwave inside (heck, it's opensource), and you can allways uninstall it in case it doesn't cut the mustard.. Also make sure you have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player installed, especially if you experience crashes of the flash plugin. And install it AFTER installing the browser, not before. |
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levyte357-
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Posted: 15 November 2012 at 5:18pm |
After closer investigation, for the main part, seems spikes were due to dormant FF/FB tab, on FB game, for few hours. How inconsiderate of me. Would say 90% of the issue, is which browser I use with FB. This hogged CPU/net bandwidth, and affected other apps running. FF being hefty and leaky is definite issue. Anyone else experiencing increase in number of Flash crashes !? |
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Global Depopulation - Alive and Killing.
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TENSiON
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Posted: 15 November 2012 at 4:04pm |
Sorry, but have to call BS on that one. The last bit of what could by a very loooong stretch be called "adware" was dropped allready around V12 (now V16), and even that was just a bundled anti-virus plugin by AVAST, which could be unchecked durring install. But even that is history now.. The latest versions are clean as it gets, tho it's still a good idea to carefully check every bit of available options the installer is offering, as like with any other software it's of course not guaranteed that something might get included (but still optional!) in the future. SSDs are great for their speed and access times, but it won't help with CPU spikes. Unless your current HDD is faulty and is the primary cause of the spikes in the first place. |
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Sinai Sound
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Posted: 15 November 2012 at 2:32pm |
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https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/notscripts/odjhifogjcknibkahlpidmdajjpkkcfn
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Sinai Sound
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Posted: 15 November 2012 at 2:31pm |
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In a fashion
I've heard 5 years give or take - by the time it's due for replacing, much larger and cheaper ones will be available for the money Of course it all depends on what you are doing with the PC, but for general light use for a limited amount of hours per day, you'd be safe Wouldn't recommend one in a SQL server that's turned on 24 hours a day with multiple users connected to it.........but I don't think that's what you're doing  The other thing to consider (but also not to worry about) is the fact you'll be running a SATA2 motherboard - Limited to about 285MBs transfer rate To get the best out of an SSD (well a new fast one at any rate) you need SATA3 I'm running one in my 3 year old core i7 PC that's on SATA2 quite happily Check the write speeds also, some have mega fast read, but not so impressive write
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levyte357-
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Posted: 15 November 2012 at 1:39pm |
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Haven't dumped FF yet, due to Chrome not supporting Noscript.
128gB SSD for the SYSTEM partition may be the way forward.. Does SSD still have usage life limited by number of writes ? |
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grazzeee
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Posted: 15 November 2012 at 1:27pm |
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restart your pc in safe mode, browse around in chrome as you do... if you still get the laggy pauses then you know its hard ware related. other wise try a fresh install of windows xp. you might have downloaded or navigated to a site that has installed some thing running in the back ground.
your specs should not be giving you lag as you described. |
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Sinai Sound
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Posted: 15 November 2012 at 1:12pm |
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Chrome?
Sacked off firefox a while ago now
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Sinai Sound
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Posted: 15 November 2012 at 1:11pm |
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The problem you'll have is that any "better" C2Q will cost about the same as a better i5 chip
I used to have a QX9650 years ago and that clocked like a beast, 4.4Ghz on water or something daft, but If I was in your position I'd buy an SSD |
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toastyghost
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Posted: 15 November 2012 at 1:01pm |
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Just get an SSD. A three year old machine with an SSD will urinate all over your beast of a desktop from great height in general computing.
Oh and ditch buggy, slow, leaky Firefox already. Edited by toastyghost - 15 November 2012 at 1:01pm |
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levyte357-
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Posted: 15 November 2012 at 12:44pm |
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Just read Waterfox is packed with all kinds of adware/crapware..
 Any of you guys tried PaleMoon? |
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