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Post by registerme on Mar 30, 2016 13:09:37 GMT
This causes the webpage to become unresponsive for a few seconds, which is annoying  . It only started happening recently (yesterday?), so I assume it's an advert....? Has anybody else experienced this? |
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Post by pom on Mar 31, 2016 9:24:58 GMT
Yep - also chrome but win7.....I'd forgotten how annoying shockwave crashes could be...
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Post by registerme on Mar 31, 2016 11:10:04 GMT
Well I updated to the latest version of Chrome, and therefore the newest version (of its own) of Shockwave and it's still happening.
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Apr 1, 2016 7:38:47 GMT
Not seen the problem, but then I do have ads blocked .. Ublock origin works for me on ffox, I assume that there must be a similar solution for chrome?
Win10? Yuk!!
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Post by brin on Apr 1, 2016 7:54:23 GMT
Not seen the problem, but then I do have ads blocked .. Ublock origin works for me on ffox, I assume that there must be a similar solution for chrome? Win10? Yuk!! Has anyone got some feedback on win 10... i am on win 8.1/chrome.... but a recent windows update is trying to get me to upgrade to win 10, everyday, its getting annoying and i cannot remove it or stop it popping up. (or can i ? )
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Post by registerme on Apr 1, 2016 9:05:15 GMT
It took me a while to take to Win10 but I did eventually. Now I really like it. One point of note though, you need to turn off an amazing amount of..... functionality I believe they call it..... that talks home to MS HQ. Do some googling, there's loads of guides available now.
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Apr 1, 2016 14:47:28 GMT
Not for me .. I'll stick with 7. brin, if you want the stupid notification item to go away, you need to uninstall the MS 'update' (which is really nagware) and then stop Wupdate from putting it back. See: www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/how-stay-on-windows-7-8-forever-3614204/If you do update it may or may not work (I had to roll mine back, basically lost network connectivity) at which point I find it had trashed my Task scheduler task lists. Several hours to recover. Oh, and it had mangled my recycle bin too. And as registerme says, it comes with an awful lot of 'talk back to M$oft' functions, most of which are a pain. On the good side it does at least know about USB3 and suchlike right out of the box (although upgrading a machine which already has drivers installed should not be an issue .. putting Win7 on a 2015/2016 vintage PC from scratch can be exciting.). |
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Post by brin on Apr 1, 2016 15:20:13 GMT
Thanks GSV3MIaC . it worked a treat, no more bothersome pop up, i must admit the privacy thing put me off it, there's enough people nosing in our lives already without MS getting involved any further.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 1, 2016 16:28:04 GMT
Can I, at this point, smugly say that there is not one single piece of Microsoft software in this house? Three laptops, one tablet and two smartphones? Yes, one laptop is Apple, but that's not actually mine...  |
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Post by registerme on Apr 1, 2016 16:30:12 GMT
You're not allowed to use Linux unless you have a beard. Oh, wait a minute......  . |
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Post by adrianc on Apr 1, 2016 16:58:27 GMT
<whispers> I'm actually clean-shaven at the moment.
B'sides, I don't call my facefur a beard. That implies that it's deliberate. It's just... stubble.
Very, very long stubble.
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Post by ribs on Apr 2, 2016 15:55:05 GMT
Can I, at this point, smugly say that there is not one single piece of Microsoft software in this house? Three laptops, one tablet and two smartphones? Ahem: www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2166123/microsoft-contributed-code-canonical-linux-2632Yes, you are running Microsoft software. Admittedly, it's only (small) parts of the Kernel. Also, Shockwave (although I think people might be meaning Flash instead) is a Adobe product. I've had Flash misbehave on my Linux boxen on more than one occasion. I run a mixed of Linux (mostly Debian and Ubuntu), MacOS and Windows in this house. All of them have up and downsides. Nothing is perfect. Let's not go back to the bad old days of "M$" bashing because we're all hipsters and trying to be cool. It's 2016. Everyone has moved on. The core issue here is the adverts on this forum have taken a dramatic turn for the worse and are adversely affecting the user experience. Whilst it's Proboards who look after that side of things, there is still a discussion to be had in the longer term. Do we ignore the problem and just run adblockers? Does this in turn make the board unsustainable? Is there a case for migrating everything elsewhere where more control can be had? Should we all chip in and make the forum "ad free"?
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Apr 2, 2016 16:25:27 GMT
There was a thread about ad-freeing the forum a year or more back, and most folks (then) weren't bothered .. some even liked the (relevant, themed) ads. The cost of deleting ads is pretty trivial, many folks here could pay it out of pocket change and not even notice .. and any/all of the platforms certainly could. Perhaps we should reopen the original poll, or start a new one, about whether we want an ad-free forum (and who should pay .. or how to select among the volunteers!)? Meantime I'll stick with ublock origin and put up with the proboards nag (and Win7, which just sorta works, as did Win2k/XP, unlike Vista (spit) or Win8.
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Post by ribs on Apr 3, 2016 16:39:57 GMT
The cost of deleting ads is pretty trivial Well, let's give it a go. Will be interesting to get feedback.
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Apr 3, 2016 17:02:38 GMT
The cost of deleting ads is pretty trivial Well, let's give it a go. Will be interesting to get feedback Gosh thanks. My ad blocker is now seeking new employment .. Maybe it can retrain to block trolls instead? 8>. How long are we ad free for? Did anyone notice yet??!
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. It only started happening recently (yesterday?), so I assume it's an advert....? Has anybody else experienced this?
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