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post #1 of 13
6/12/04 at 9:44pm
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Hello all,
Does opening many, many ie windows cause the fan to run like mad? I am not very sure about windows laptop because this is my first windows laptop. Previously, I have been using a mac laptop.
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lozx
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post #2 of 13
6/13/04 at 2:39am
Not a problem for me (don't use IE anymore, am a convert to Firefox), but there is a simple explanation. The more pages and tasks you have running the more system resources that you are exploiting. Especially if this is increasing CPU load, then the heat can increase a little and fans come on earlier/ more regularly. If you are unhappy with this then change to firefox (uses less resources, tabbed browsing so not so many open windows), or else download I8kfanGUI and change the level at which the fans turn on.
stu
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post #3 of 13
6/13/04 at 3:23am
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Originally Posted by DELL-sakor1
Not a problem for me (don't use IE anymore, am a convert to Firefox)
If only everyone would convert!
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post #4 of 13
6/13/04 at 12:46pm
Guess it's a good thing you decided to give it a second try Sakor1.

Glad to hear it worked out for you. Firefox is awesome!
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post #5 of 13
6/14/04 at 1:39am
i'm using avant browser, is firefox better?
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post #6 of 13
6/14/04 at 1:43am
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Originally Posted by yichen
i'm using avant browser, is firefox better?
I'm not familiar with that, but the big selling points of Firefox for me are:

1. built-in pop-up blocker (works perfectly)
2. tabbed browsing
3. ability to add user-created extensions, many of which are very helpful, such as mouse gestures (move your mouse in certain patterns to do whatever you want, like open new windows or tabs, print, close, minimize, etc. etc.)
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post #7 of 13
6/14/04 at 1:56am
I use Opera.. its as good as any other, perhaps better. This is after my IE was hijacked!!!!!

Ive used all 4, avant, mozilla firefox, IE and opera and a coupla others.

IE's the best no doubt, but nowadays its become very vulnerable to hijacks, pop-up attakcs, worms, malicious active-x (though a big minus is tabbed browsing). IE, as its built into winxp, takes way too much CPU usage, 10windows sure the fan's gonna be on.... plus if winamp etc is also on.. its gonna heat up for sure.

I think the next best thing is Opera then mozilla and then the rest... but they are quite similar in most acpects (opera requires a crack, mozilla fire is free).
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post #8 of 13
6/14/04 at 11:39am
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Originally Posted by yichen
i'm using avant browser, is firefox better?
Avant is a shell to IE (I think; maybe I'm confusing it with MyIE2). It uses IE as its core and just adds some functionality such as tabbed browsing to it.

You are still subject to all of IE's shortcomings which slangen listed.

There are lots of people who like prefer it to Firefox because it's easier to get up and running "out of the box" whereas Firefox takes a little bit of tweaking to make it "perfect".

I used to use Opera (which is a great browser and even better with 7.51) but I prefer Firefox now which I have been using for the last 5 weeks or so.
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post #9 of 13
6/14/04 at 3:38pm
Where do I find Firefox? I think I'm going to put it on my laptop.
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post #10 of 13
6/14/04 at 3:49pm
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
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post #11 of 13
6/15/04 at 4:40am
Note that it takes a bit of tweaking to get it to suit you Wooster, so play around with it a bit and visit their support forums (given as one of the bookmarks)
stu
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post #12 of 13
6/15/04 at 5:31am
Roger that.

Any suggestions on tweaks to make?
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post #13 of 13
6/15/04 at 5:49am
Well firstly, I highly recommend the following two extentions:

Get Chromedit so you can edit the user files easily:
http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#chromedit

Get Tabbrowser extensions for extra tabbing options:
http://texturizer.net/firefox/extens...r%20Extensions

Add the following to the User.js file through chromedit (it stops those annoying shortcut icons):

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Originally Posted by Myself
// Disable Bookmark Icons
user_pref("browser.chrome.site_icons", false);
user_pref("browser.chrome.favicons", false);
Then there are many other tweaks you can make, I will post the remainder of my "tweak" User.js, but these are personalised settings so you may have to adjust them or start from scratch:

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Originally Posted by Myself
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 75000);
user_pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl", true);
user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true);
user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
user_pref("content.maxtextrun", 8191);
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 32);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 8);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 8);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 4);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 750);
user_pref("plugin.expose_full_path", true);
user_pref("signed.applets.codebase_principal_support", true);
user_pref("network.dnsCacheExpiration", 300); // 5 minutes
user_pref("network.dnsCacheEntries", 10);
user_pref("network.ftp.idleConnectionTimeout", 60); // 1 minute
user_pref("network.http.keep-alive.timeout", 30);
user_pref("network.http.request.max-start-delay", 5);
user_pref("network.http.connect.timeout", 30);
stu
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