[Info-vax] Newsreaders, was (long ago): Re: HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

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In article <085704d6-a18b-4f3b-acf6-d49516711a8a at o14g2000vbo.googlegroups.com>, AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> writes:
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>Thanks. I actually dug up the cures for the oozing tabs (what a stupid
>idea -- interrupts your train of thought -- and seems ridiculous in
>that the hardware people are making faster and faster hardware and
>here we have some geeky a-huh a-huh a-huh programmer finding a way to
>waste time for something whose cool effect, if there is any, wears out
>on the second occurrence) and the url graying, on my own. A near
>miracle but I was very persistent!

I've not seen these oosing tabs but then, I don't like tabbed browsing.



>FF9? They'll be the highest version number of any software in a few
>years!
>
>Here's another thing I'd like a cure for with FF: It seems to me to be
>a memory leaker. I haven't checked carefully, but I know in some
>instances several years ago it clearly was. I think it does so on my
>Mac. And if you leave it open too long and with too many tabs, things
>start getting real slow. Closing it and reopening it work wonders! Can
>anyone shed some light on this? I think this also happens with IE. Is
>this just a browser thing?

I have FF on my Linux laptop.  When I am done at the end of the day, I
run a script that "srm -v"s the FF cache and thumbnails.  That keeps my
FF running smooth and it keeps my browsing history private from those
prying eyes of those 4th Amendment violating CBP and ICE agents when I
travel.  Not that I have anything to hide.  It's just a way to play the
game with them.  Only a fool would keep anything sensitive on a laptop
they were carrying about -- especially, on international travels.

FWIW, FF had an image cache bug that followed it through to FF8 before
it was addressed... or was it?  No, they just made it so that you had
to have MORE images cached before it tossed up the bug.  That's not a
fix in my book.

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