-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Karl Larsen wrote: > > > My Fedora 7 and 8 are working fine. Typically I bring up my Firefox > web browser and try to read what is on the Google page. It is from a > newspaper and it has a lot of advertising and pop-ups. While all this is > coming up, sometimes it keys a sudden loss of the screen due to a full > screen cross-hatch, and neither keyboard or Mouse work. The only thing > to do is turn off power to the computer. > > This is an unacceptable event. It makes me MAD and since using ext3 I > can turn off the computer and not loose anything but sometimes I reboot > and the problem will appear again in just a few minutes. > > This problem started right after I changed to this computer. And so > did the need to get a Nvidia driver for Linux. So I think it must be the > Nvidia software generating this. But I do not know this for a fact > because the problem is very intermittent. > > I hate this problem so much I plan to load another F8 and see if one > without Nvidia has the problem. The screen is just 800x600 but I can get > Firefox working and see what happens. I do not know about your video driver problem. But to help your Firefox experience I have four suggestions. - --------------------------------------------- 1) Install the Adblock Plus extension This stops all, or most, of those adds and speeds up the pages loading. - --------------------------------------------- 2) Install the Flashblock extension. This blocks flash from all sites and you can, as you wish, allow flash from certain sites as you choose. - --------------------------------------------- 3) Remove all of the languages that you do not need from the extensions. English is 'built-in' and these are checked for updates each time you load Firefox. Slows down the loading. This has to be done as 'root' and they will be replaced with each Firefox upgrade from Fedora. - --------------------------------------------- 4) use the squid proxy Yum install squid service squid start goto the services menu and set squid to start on boot in levels 3 and 5. save and close the window start Firefox > Edit > Preferences > Connections 'settings...' button select manual proxy configuration in the box HTTP Proxy type 127.0.0.1 in the box Port type 3128 check the box Use this proxy for all protocols click ok set Cache to 0 (that is the number zero) click clean now click close - --------------------------------------------- Enjoy the speed up - -- David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkd313cACgkQAO0wNI1X4QF4fACgq+fD1ZLbUPH/W2uD0DpaPkru ACsAni54oLpjDW7jOoJ8ugcGUIPDCl5/ =JN4m -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
