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[Burning Down]

Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle

It's a Dell inspiron mini. The battery has been in it the whole time. It's like three years old at most.

Yeah, my laptop is 2 and a half years old and I just replaced the battery.

[Trollheart]

Anyone any ideas? My browser has suddenly started "sliding", that is to say, if I have a list of websites in tabs and try to go back to the first one, it "snaps" back and won't let me get to them. If the scrollbar at the bottom is over to the right and I try to move it to the left it again snaps back. Weird, and very annoying. Seems only to happen with Firefox.

I've shut down the computer completely and rebooted. I've updated Firefox and yet the same thing happens. I'm now using the hated IE to browse but I like FF and can't understand why it's behaving like this. I didn't do anything different, download anything or go onto any dodgy websites. I haven't run a virus check, as I doubt this would be the result of a virus or even spyware; seems more like a bug in the browser.

Any advice appreciated guys. I was sure rebooting would sort it but no luck.
Thanks
TH

Edit: Crap! It's also happening with IE! If I enlarge the screen at all, like with ctrl plus to zoom it in, then the scroll bar at the bottom goes over to the right and won't come back to the right; ; it keeps bouncing back. God damn it.

[Plankton]

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Anyone any ideas? My browser has suddenly started "sliding", that is to say, if I have a list of websites in tabs and try to go back to the first one, it "snaps" back and won't let me get to them. If the scrollbar at the bottom is over to the right and I try to move it to the left it again snaps back. Weird, and very annoying. Seems only to happen with Firefox.

I've shut down the computer completely and rebooted. I've updated Firefox and yet the same thing happens. I'm now using the hated IE to browse but I like FF and can't understand why it's behaving like this. I didn't do anything different, download anything or go onto any dodgy websites. I haven't run a virus check, as I doubt this would be the result of a virus or even spyware; seems more like a bug in the browser.

Any advice appreciated guys. I was sure rebooting would sort it but no luck.
Thanks
TH

FF and IE are bloated hogs. Get Chrome. Problem solved.

[Good Guy]

Chrome doesn't have all of the essentials for people paranoid about privacy, though

..and, does that snap back happen often on FF?
*NVM, just read.

You said you updated, but have you tried a re-install?

[Plankton]

Originally Posted by Good Guy

Chrome doesn't have all of the essentials for people paranoid about privacy, though

..and, does that snap back happen often on FF?
*NVM, just read.

You said you updated, but have you tried a re-install?

I beg to differ. Under Settings > Privacy there are quite a few 'tracking' options that FF and IE don't have, as well as phishing and malware protection.

[Good Guy]

That's not quite exactly what I meant.

I meant protection from Zombie Cookies, LSOs, and stuff like Google-analytics.

but that kind of stuff is overkill

[Plankton]

Originally Posted by Good Guy

That's not quite exactly what I meant.

I meant protection from Zombie Cookies, LSOs, and stuff like Google-analytics.

but that kind of stuff is overkill

Chrome > Settings > Content Settings > "do not allow any sites to run javascript".

[Good Guy]

I like having my NoScript, allows me to keep what javascript runs on a site to site basis. I also like to see referrers and cross site requests. I also doubt that Chrome excludes you from google-analytics.

[Plankton]

Originally Posted by Good Guy

I like having my NoScript, allows me to keep what javascript runs on a site to site basis. I also like to see referrers and cross site requests. I also doubt that Chrome excludes you from google-analytics.

You can manage exceptions, and turn off all analytics.

I could go round and round with you on this, but I won't. People get stuck in their ways, I understand. I get like that too.

[Good Guy]

I will remain over here in camp Firefox

Just my preference.