is anyone else who is using firefox 3 getting bouncy pages
or just me its mostly on game pages they bounce to the right alot

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Snoopy: Yes, I Have been getting those "bouncing" pages as well

Well, I've been trying to use BrainKing with the latest Firefox 3 (Beta 5) for more than 3 hours but nothing "bouncing" ever happened to me. Am I doing something wrong?
Anyway, I've just posted a short article about it to BrainKing.info, so if someone wants to continue in this discussion, it is possible to do it at the blog site as well. At least I would know what to prepare to.

Fencer: i cured mine by turning the game notation of..lol
but so far on beta 5 it hasnt happened to me either

Snoopy: I havent noticed my bouncing issue in a few days now either, I still use the older firefox, I am not sure what the problem was or why it is better now.

A friend of mine gave me a Advent Laptop he had a problem with. It was an ex shop display one that used to have shop software running. Anyway, when he brought it they unlocked it for him and removed anything of theirs. It has been running fine for months, then last week it just froze, so he switched it off.
Now when it starts it jumps up with 'Enter Password'
Now he has not set one anyway.
So the question is what is this password ? I am guessing it is a Power on Password or BIOS related anyway. Either way i can not get past it.
It will not let me into BIOS, so can not alter boot sequence to goto DVD first.
I have removed CMOS battery for 12 hours and its not helped.
There are no jumpers on the Motherboard, so thats not an option.

Any other ideas folks ?

MadMonkey:

no hotkey to change the boot-values directly before entering the BIOS? many laptops use F12 or something similar¿!

diogenysos: Nope it says at bottom of screen <f2> to enter setup & <f12> to enter boot menu.

<f2> does show you set up, but as it does, the 'Enter Password' box comes up again
<f12> does not appear to do anything
<f8> will not work
well in fact i have tried all of them and the other normal ones Esc, Ins etc....

MadMonkey:

found a website listing a lot of master-passwords here:

http://www.jumperz.de/bios-passwoerter.htm

maybe the right one for your mainboard can be found there...

diogenysos: thats one of the sites i have tried and the different Passwords i have tried is crazyyyyyyyy

I do not think in the end its a BIOS Password, its either a Power on one OR something that they may have installed when it was in the shop as a display

MadMonkey:

hmmmm - how about resetting it all by shorting out the CMOS-battery-poles??

diogenysos: Tried that lol

MadMonkey:

i am running out of suggestions now. just one more hint:
depending on the mainboard it may take up to a whole year until the power/data gets lost after the removal of the battery.
maybe you can find a nice place on your shelf to store that laptop for the next months...

Windows XP SP3 is coming next week

I seem to have lost the ability to use smileys in my games messages, and can no longer switch to rich text editor, I haven't changed any settings or updated anything, does anyone have any suggestions

I tried rebooting my computer & nothing seems to help.....my IE is completely messed up & the only way I can stay on-line is by using firefox. I'm also wondering if I could completely start over by deleting everything & then re-install everything back. Someone mentioned to me today that I can completely start new by holding down the Ctrl-Alt & delete button at the same time. I'm wondering would that completely do the job?

TigerCat: try a system restore to an earlier date/time when all was well, and Ctrl/Alt/Delete is a soft reboot anyway, but you could try it.

Bernice: I tried that but it only went to the same day that I tried it..not even an earlier date. Even tried doing the ctrl-alt & delete buttons but received a message that the task manager has been disabled by the admin.

TigerCat:  What OS do you run? And I assume you are running a PC? Or is it a Mac?

You could uninstall OE7 and then reinstall it..

Come on Firefox users, get ready to Set a Firefox World Record!

All you have to do is download Firefox 3 when it goes live on Download Day — some time in June (I will let you know) and see if it can set a record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours

You can keep track on everything here - World record attempt

MadMonkey: Do you have a link for the free avg download?

Czuch: Sure, try HERE

I understand that F5 is a refresh but what are the other 11 "F" keys for? can or does anybody know?

Bernice: http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seoconsultants.com%2Fwindows%2Fkeyboard%2F&ei=KodBSK2dBaaM0QS0pu2ZCA&usg=AFQjCNENMHye_lZh0-GxvVSvywSIhe3L_w&sig2=K7oLC3zAsp9oFnyq6CVp1A

ScarletRose: Windows XP Home Edition. I have downloaded IE7 & I would still have to re-install it. I can't even get into Control Panel let alone see it LOL

Is there anyway to enable the task manager besides calling Dell?

Snoopy: WOW.....thanks so much for that...that is just so informative :)

TigerCat: Two thoughts here Tiger..

1. Did you recently put a firewall or a virus program on your puter that you might need to tune the program to accept your IE?

2. Is it possible you deleted certain files on your puter that actually were needed to run IE? Or, could you have picked up a virus?

Another thought Tiger.. do you regularily run the updates for MS IE? Sometimes they will download and then not get installed? 

ScarletRose: Nope....never changed either my firewall or virus programs & it shows that both are on. Never ran updates for IE. When I do a temp file delete at least 1 time each week, there wouldn't be anything in the MSN part, just in the temp files mostly. I could have picked up a virus of some sort because I can't turn on my Automatic Updates in my security. It will always be on but this week, it was turned off ( not by me) & when I click on the turn on part, nothing happens. Would get a thing that the security center can't turn it on. Then I'll go to automatic updates & click on when I would like the updates to be done. Today in fact, I set when it should be done. Stayed on-line during that time & didn't get anything for it showing either in my icons or when I went to log off.

Getting all sorts of pop-up's saying Spyware alert or if i wanted to make IE my browser & more things w/ it. I then just click everything no an such. When I do log in, I don't have a background pic of anything but have a red screen w/ something for downloading anti-virus

TigerCat: try a system restore to an earlier date/time when all was well.....

Bernice: I tried that as well, but the only date it showed that I could do it is the same day. Even when I click for last month, stays in the current month

TigerCat: hmmmmmmm.....sounds like you have picked up a viruii (sp) somehow :(

Bernice: ! Finally have time to play & now it looks like I'll be calling Dell. I'll be playing phone tag that's for sure. A friend from work knows someone who does computer shows...if he can get it working normally again, my friend said that he can upgrade it bigtime LOL

TigerCat: Are you able to open IE up at all? If so, open it.. then click on "TOOLS", when the drop down menu appears click "INTERNET OPTIONS" another box comes up. There are tabs along the top. Click on the "PROGRAMS" tab. About 2/3 rds down is a section "DEFAULT WEB BROWSER" if the button to the right of it says "MAKE DEFAULT" and is bold, click on it. Then select "APPLY" then "OK". Hopefully that will fix it.

What you are doing there is allowing IE to be your default browser. Since you are using two browsers like I do. One has to be default, and since you run several other things with your IE browser it needs to stay as your default browser.

Just downloaded IE 7 & some add-ons but still have alot of pop-up's & pages showing up but it is running lot better than before. I'm wondering how I can enable the task manager or would Dell needs to do it? Just curious

TigerCat: I dont use IE 7 but I would not have thought Dell needed to do it. Can you just not right click on your menue at the bottom and open it?

Mousetrap: It doesn't have it on my menu..or anywhere else unfortunately. The only time I would a message about task manager is if I press ctrl+alt+delete buttons at the same time. can't even do a re-boot at the moment

TigerCat: That is how I get it too. Or I right click on a space in the the blue bar where it shows what programs are running at the bottom or top of your screen.

Mousetrap: Yes...right-clicking on the "taskbar" should bring up a mini-menu having "Task Manager" as an item.
I think "Task Manager" should always appear there on that list, but it can be greyed out if Task Manager has been disabled by the Administrator...or by a virus.

wetware: Ah I see. I have never come across it greyed out that must be what TigerCat means.

Whoo Hoo! Actually got something accomplished! LOL....I downloaded both SpyBot & Ad-aware. SpyBot did what others didn't...It actually worked! It got rid of alot of things.

For some reason when I click on start, the things that are missing are Control, help, search & something else. I still can't get into the security tho...

wetware: I can get the Task Manager up....would I have to delete everything (if possible) to do a re-install?

TigerCat: If you are having that amount of problems, i would advise a complete clean install of Windows
Of course you will need the Install disk that should (hopefully) of come with the computer, or a new one. Of course you will have to back up any important stuff either to DVD or use an on-line storage site ( ADrive will give you up to 50gb of space ).
This is a much better idea when having so many problems. System Restore is only OK if you know you have a good Restore Point.

MadMonkey: I have the disk for a complete re-install..just wondered if I have to delete everything in the task manager box or would I be able to do that when I'm in a "safe" mode? Compared to what I had to deal w/ earlier this is heaven at the moment! LOL