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[taslucas]

Don't bother. Why do you need a GU manual anyway?

Have you seen the light and decided to buy a GU?

It's for a mate. Sick of him whining about how shit his GU is

[taslucas]

Anyone else having problems with Firefox?
This might be a coincidence but ever since around about the time I did an automatic update with Firefox I have been having issues online. Firstly it takes a long time to start up firefox now. It does weird stuff like when I click on the icon nothing happens so I wait a minute then click again and nothing happens so I do it again and after two minutes or so the program launches 3 times.
Basically all the internet sites through firefox have turned really slow, just like I went back to dial up internet. But it seems to slowly speed back up after 15-20 minutes.
Getting onto YouTube is so unbearably slow for the first ten minutes. It's like theres a heap of processes going on in the background and it's getting worse every time. If I try to click on something or scroll down it says "Firefox is not responding". It now keeps popping up that the plugin called "shockwave" has is not working.
So I should start with getting shockwave working? How do I do that? Is there some kind of refresh I can do to firefox? Or should I just remove and reinstall it?
Also on start up and shut down my computer has been running it's own automatic updates. It's always done it from time to time but lately it's been doing it daily.

[AB]

I had the exact same issues about a week ago. Exactly the same as above!

I gave up and now back on chrome.

[Bob]

X2 now use IE. I know it is a elephant but it works LOL

[NissanGQ4.2]

I had the exact same issues about a week ago. Exactly the same as above!

I gave up and now back on chrome.

It happens with Chrome as well, I have been experiencing the same issue on chrome within the last month or so. I haven't really bothered trying to fix it.

Lucas I have not read this thread in its entirety but it might help you with fixing the issue: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/960315

[rusty_nail]

Anyone else having problems with Firefox?
This might be a coincidence but ever since around about the time I did an automatic update with Firefox I have been having issues online. Firstly it takes a long time to start up firefox now. It does weird stuff like when I click on the icon nothing happens so I wait a minute then click again and nothing happens so I do it again and after two minutes or so the program launches 3 times.
Basically all the internet sites through firefox have turned really slow, just like I went back to dial up internet. But it seems to slowly speed back up after 15-20 minutes.
Getting onto YouTube is so unbearably slow for the first ten minutes. It's like theres a heap of processes going on in the background and it's getting worse every time. If I try to click on something or scroll down it says "Firefox is not responding". It now keeps popping up that the plugin called "shockwave" has is not working.
So I should start with getting shockwave working? How do I do that? Is there some kind of refresh I can do to firefox? Or should I just remove and reinstall it?
Also on start up and shut down my computer has been running it's own automatic updates. It's always done it from time to time but lately it's been doing it daily.

Hey mate easy fix just uninstall it and re install with the newest version. That fixed mine

[taslucas]

Hey mate easy fix just uninstall it and re install with the newest version. That fixed mine

Awesome, I'll give that a try. I'm fairly certain it only started effing up about a month ago just after I did an update to the latest version lol. I'll give the uninstal/reinstall a go later. Lol its the modern day equivalent of turning it off and back on again

[NissanGQ4.2]

Hey mate easy fix just uninstall it and re install with the newest version. That fixed mine

Uninstall Shockwave or the browser?, I assume Shockwave but want to confirm

I'm pretty sure I already deleted shockwave and reinstalled but it didn't fix it

[taslucas]

I'm uninstalling heaps of crap that's built up over time. Hopefully that'll free up the lappy. Then I'll install the latest version of Firefox. Firefox should come with all the plugins that it needs? (such as shockwave?) or seeing how I should already have the latest Firefox, would it be better just to update shockwave first and see how it goes?
When updating Firefox last month it did a scan to make sure it was compatible with all existing plugins. Could this be where the problems with shockwave started?

[Clunk]

You'll probably find its not the browser that fas the issue but one of the plugins. I had the same issue with chrome last week. Turned out to be the Skype plugin, so uninstalled it and now is all good.
I don't know why it's like now but Firefox used to be quite a memory sapping pig if a thing.