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Special => Help => Topic started by: Cobra951 on Tuesday, September 09, 2008, 11:24:29 AM
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This morning I had my first BSOD on this computer in years. I could kick myself for not reading the whole screen carefully. I know I saw a mention of a driver, and since my system has been up and working again for hours, I'm hoping that's all it is, a fatal driver error (rather than hardware problems). I'm not optimistic, since it has been rock-stable for years. It's getting old.
While I wait for it to happen again, the event allowed me to see something alarming about Firefox-2 behavior. When I BSOD'd, I was in the midst of typing a reply here on the boards. After rebooting and restoring the FF session, I noticed that everything I had typed in here came back. There's only one way for that to happen, and that's if FF sends every freaking character I type to a log file, as I'm typing. That *sucks*. It explains why I constantly get hitches in the text appearing in the window as I type. I want this to stop, and I don't know how. Once before, I complained about the hitchy text performance in FF, but I found no answers. Maybe this opens the door?
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I have no idea and a few Google searches turned up nothing. Asking in the Mozilla or Firefox specific Usenet group would probably be a better avenue for this question as quite a few Fx developers and contributors frequent that.
It's interesting that you think it saves everything, because I found an extension that does just that:
http://lifehacker.com/351167/automatically-save-text-fields-as+you+type-with-autosavetexttocookie
I still do not have these stuttering issues that you are referring to. I do use Fx3 though. Maybe that makes a difference.
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Thanks for the in-depth reply. I know I'm behind the times with FF. The PC has been up all day without another problem, making me wonder if the scandisk for consistency on C: fixed whatever went awry. Could have been something like a bad sector in the middle of pagefile.sys. It was getting pretty huge (close to a GB) thanks once again to FF 2--memory leaks.
I'm still very paranoid about the PC. At this point I don't have a fallback position, at all. If this thing goes boom, I'm SOL. I'm wondering if I should start powering it down at night, give it a rest.