IE locks my computer
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My whole computer locks for some time every time I try to access a network share in explorer. I'm guessing it needs a lock on some mutex that tons of other processes also lock *shrugs* I'm still on XP though - have they fixed that problem yet cause it might actually be something worth upgrading for. I don't think # of processors makes a lot of difference to anything - single core single processors have been dealing with hundreds of threads for years - having twice the number of cores is probably no better than doubling how many instructions per second the processor can execute and 99% of the time the processors just idle anyway as every running thread is either waiting for disk or network, or waiting to acquire a lock held by something that's doing one of those things.
Dave Parker wrote:
I'm still on XP though - have they fixed that problem yet cause it might actually be something worth upgrading for.
Explorer loads asynchronously instead of blocking the UI thread in Weven. IIRC it was first done for Vista.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
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Dave Parker wrote:
I'm still on XP though - have they fixed that problem yet cause it might actually be something worth upgrading for.
Explorer loads asynchronously instead of blocking the UI thread in Weven. IIRC it was first done for Vista.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
That's good. Should be getting a new computer at work hopefully in a few weeks time now that the piece of crap I'm currently on is finally out of warranty. There's a chance it'll have Win 7 on it. Have a feeling some hackery will be required to get the VB6 SP5 IDE to work on it (the colossal app we have to maintain doesn't build in SP6, can't remember the reasons why), but will see how it goes....
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Marc Clifton wrote:
I recently received a nice 4 processor system from a client, and it came with IE 8.
And perhaps some extra toolbars / BHOs installed, as is typical with a new computer? Try it on a clean system, and it works fine. Tabs don't lock other tabs when loading, and I don't think I've had IE8 crash once on either Vista or XP.
Marc Clifton wrote:
re-open it in the same state later on
That's what the 'reopen last browsing session' link is for.
Marc Clifton wrote:
Can't the geniuses at MS write a browser that renders pages correctly
I think it's a bit more complicated than that. Think of the compatibility button as "enable workarounds for bad HTML". It is impossible to buld a browser that renders HTML correctly in all cases, since so much of the web is badly written HTML. (Take a look at the source for http://www.interacx.com/[^] for an example of mal-formed HTML).
Electron Shepherd wrote:
And perhaps some extra toolbars / BHOs installed, as is typical with a new computer?
Nope, it was a completely clean install.
Electron Shepherd wrote:
I think it's a bit more complicated than that
Yes, I know. ;) Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote:
So, I screamed IEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and installed Chrome.
Chrome's too pretty. I don't like pretty. I like to be able to find the things I need to click that make things happen.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark Wallace wrote:
I like to be able to find the things I need to click that make things happen.
Heh. For a browser, I want it totally out of the way, because it's the web page where I want things happening, not the browser UI! Marc
I'm not overthinking the problem, I just felt like I needed a small, unimportant, uninteresting rant! - Martin Hart Turner
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Mark Wallace wrote:
I like to be able to find the things I need to click that make things happen.
Heh. For a browser, I want it totally out of the way, because it's the web page where I want things happening, not the browser UI! Marc
I'm not overthinking the problem, I just felt like I needed a small, unimportant, uninteresting rant! - Martin Hart Turner
Marc Clifton wrote:
For a browser, I want it totally out of the way, because it's the web page where I want things happening, not the browser UI!
<MS IE Developer> I hear you. You want the ribbon. </MS IE Developer>
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!