Quote ="The Chair Maker"The latest versions of Firefox have introduced Hardware acceleration, whereby your graphics card takes over the browser work from the CPU, sometime it can be better to disable this. Especially if your graphics card isnt upto scratch or has buggy or old drivers link on how to do it here www.worldstart.com/speed-up-fire ... eleration/ No guarantees but there was a bug where with certain AMD Graphics cards were it used to get effectively stuck in loop and you would see the GPU utilisation stuck at 99% with the graphics card getting nice and warm.'" OK ta, I've tried that. We'll see what happens ...

Quote ="The Chair Maker"The latest versions of Firefox have introduced Hardware acceleration, whereby your graphics card takes over the browser work from the CPU, sometime it can be better to disable this. Especially if your graphics card isnt upto scratch or has buggy or old drivers link on how to do it here www.worldstart.com/speed-up-fire ... eleration/ No guarantees but there was a bug where with certain AMD Graphics cards were it used to get effectively stuck in loop and you would see the GPU utilisation stuck at 99% with the graphics card getting nice and warm.'" OK ta, I've tried that. We'll see what happens ...

Firefox uninstalled, all data that I could find deleted, and re-installed (v. 8.0), bookmarks recovered.

We shall see ...

Problem seems much reduced, liveable with so far, think mainly due to disabling HW acceleration. Thanks for the help.

Still interested in suggestions for an alternative browser.

chrome-unbloated

Been an avid FF user for many years, but too many bugs appearing these days.

Went into Comet for a new DVD player, came out with a new quad 4 I Mac



Wanted one for ages, hope they live up to all the 'big ups' I have had from Apple users.

They are brilliant machines, only down side, no blu ray, but you can use boot camp to install windows.

Do I need Windows to operate MS Office (which they threw in as a sweetener), can ots own OS do it instead.

Blu-ray external drives are around £50, why would you need to install windows?




There is a Mac version of Office and very good it is too (apart from Outlook) if they threw it in with the Mac then it should (i hope) be the OSX version, boot the Mac pop the disk in and follow the instructions.

Mac OS has some differences to what you are used to but nothing major, quite a lot will make you think why can't windows be that easy, only downside is no high end games but you'd buy an XBox for them.

Anyone familiar with programs that switch sub pixels on and off? I have one missing pixel on my screen that's been there since purchase. I contacted Toshiba and they said there are third party programs that do it, but they can't recommend any.

If this doesn't do it then they give you your money back.
Beware though, your screen is within tolerance so Tosh won't fix it under warranty.

Not a problem to me, still getting to grips with my compendium I got when I was 10



mainly be used for internet, Photoshop, video editing, Word & Excel and Autocad. I have used one at college and have always fancied one , so decided to take the plunge.

Quite simple really, if you want to watch blu ray movies on an iMac you need to install windows through bootcamp and use a windows based media Player to go with your external blu ray drive.

Quote ="World of Redboy"Quite simple really, if you want to watch blu ray movies on an iMac you need to install windows through bootcamp and use a windows based media Player to go with your external blu ray drive.'" Cobblers... www.macblurayplayer.com

Quote ="World of Redboy"Quite simple really, if you want to watch blu ray movies on an iMac you need to install windows through bootcamp and use a windows based media Player to go with your external blu ray drive.'" Cobblers... www.macblurayplayer.com

I stand corrected, that's the first program I've seen that will play blu ray movies on a mac.

Does any one have any recommendations for MP3 players?

Basically I need something which has 8GB (or more) capacity, the option to expand it with a memory card, reasonably robust, good battery life and isn't an iAnything. Any suggestions?

Anyone got any hints on a decent homepage for a website? Struggling with the design (just like I did with the logo until I asked you techys!)

Update on my "Firefox not responding" issue and alternative browser request from November 15.

Don't think that Firefox was the cause of the problem - it was most likely due to my accessing a website while it was subject to a Denial of Service attack.

Re Google Chrome - well I was offered it as an option while downloading some other software yesterday. Not for now thanks I said, or thought I did, but it installed itself anyway and then had the cheek to decide that it was my default browser. So I've uninstalled it. Seems to me that Google is becoming the personification of the evil corporation. Duck Duck Go, here I come.

Google Chrome doesn't do that.

Depends how it is programmed in to the host application it was piggy backed on to mate.

Well, sort of, but I've yet to see one where you can't select a 'no I don't want that' option.

Neither have I, I have however seen on that just ignores you when you select the no option. They didn't stay an affiliate very long mind.

Did to me, so it does. I definitely gave one "no" answer but I quite expect that the download process may have given me a later "opportunity" which I missed.

BTW, I don't come on here telling lies.

I'm not suggesting you do, simply a mis click or similar. Although it's now looking like it's me that it just hasn't happened to.

I assume no one has an opinion on this? If so does would any have a preference of one brand over another? Say an £80 Creative v a £40 SanDisk?

I would guess the %age of people using an iSomething is quite high here add in your need for an expansion slot and you really reduce your chances.