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Title: Help - Firefox, PC or virus ? Post by: Nakor on May 22, 2006, 08:36:23 PM Please help me.
When I fire up the old PC all seems ok. Firefox starts fine - Blonde opens fine. Open second tab can do one search on google and on the second I get error messages. Cannot find google, contains no data, check address etc. I then get error messages for whatever site I try and open. Shut down firefox, restart it, repeat and the same thing happens. Have deleted cookies, cant find temp internet files. Have also had some lag problems with BPL, everything else seems fine. Suggestions ? Title: Re: Help - Firefox, PC or virus ? Post by: Sark79 on May 22, 2006, 08:41:37 PM Have also had some lag problems with BPL, everything else seems fine. Suggestions ? My Blonde is running really slow as well. Much slower than other things. I ran a thingymagigy test after Bundle explained how to do it. Do you keep getting a flashing egg timer? Title: Re: Help - Firefox, PC or virus ? Post by: Heid on May 22, 2006, 08:42:33 PM Nakor, what ISP are you with?
Title: Re: Help - Firefox, PC or virus ? Post by: Nakor on May 22, 2006, 08:43:33 PM Heid - NTL Broadband.
Sark - no egg timer just serious lag, missing goes timed out, stalling etc. Title: Re: Help - Firefox, PC or virus ? Post by: Heid on May 22, 2006, 08:47:38 PM Okies, I was hoping you would say NTL LOL
I have seen this with a lot of NTL connections..it appears to throttle connections an awful lot at peak times - you are probably ok on Blonde, as you come here a lot and it's locally cached for you. Things like google it has to take data and bandwidth from the net, so NTL suffers when it is really busy. It's a case of keep trying and try to grab a good dollop of bandwidth. Change yer ISP :) Title: Re: Help - Firefox, PC or virus ? Post by: Nakor on May 22, 2006, 09:00:20 PM Okies, I was hoping you would say NTL LOL Change yer ISP :) But its free with my TV and phone :( However Norwich is about to trial/launch the free wi-fi city centre type thing and I can have free connection to that forever - and dump NTL for Sky and then I will be able to watch Tikay on the TV :) Title: Re: Help - Firefox, PC or virus ? Post by: Bongo on May 22, 2006, 09:23:57 PM Fire up IE and see if the same sort of things happens.
Title: Re: Help - Firefox, PC or virus ? Post by: Nakor on May 22, 2006, 09:34:38 PM Bugger IE is fine I'm guessing that is bad.
Title: Re: Help - Firefox, PC or virus ? Post by: Nem on May 22, 2006, 09:35:45 PM Bugger IE is fine I'm guessing that is bad. If Firefox is running slow, you should try www.opera.com. Title: Re: Help - Firefox, PC or virus ? Post by: Heid on May 22, 2006, 09:37:51 PM IE is fine?
Hmm... have you run ad aware etc? Title: Re: Help - Firefox, PC or virus ? Post by: Bongo on May 22, 2006, 09:47:23 PM Assuming all else is clear (virus etc).
Is it the latest version of FF? Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling? (To be safe backup your bookmarks first!) Title: Re: Help - Firefox, PC or virus ? Post by: Nakor on May 22, 2006, 09:48:15 PM IE is fine? Hmm... have you run ad aware etc? Heid, you know I am a computer dummy - ad aware? etc ? Have done virus scan/xclean micro etc same thing ? Title: Re: Help - Firefox, PC or virus ? Post by: Heid on May 22, 2006, 09:49:10 PM Yeah pretty much :)
Title: Re: Help - Firefox, PC or virus ? Post by: Graham C on May 22, 2006, 10:34:37 PM I get this problem from time to time and I'm with NTL. I think it's US based sites I can't get on too.
Anyway, I had it tonight but were up and running again now. Is yours back? edit: we're not completly back. Can get on hotmail though. |