Photobucket Fix & Alternatives...

[alwaysFlOoReD]

I've been using chrome for the last couple of weeks. The add on works for me? Didn't have any problems on my end.
Firefox has been a problem tho, it seems to have a conflict with something on my computer. The fans spin up and things are laggy A.F. I look in task manager and resource monitor but don't see what would be the problem, but I'm also self-taught on computers and don't really know what I'm looking at. Right now the cpu is at 13% average for FF, and I've seen it as high as 30%. I don't know what's normal. I'm using an Asus k53ta laptop with 8 gigs ram and W8. I'd much prefer FF because privacy concerns...I hope the new one due out soon fixes the problems.
Another thought that just crossed my mind is there may be bit-coin miners co-opting one or more sites I use. Just read about this exploit but don't know how to find out if that's the case. It would explain the heavy cpu usage

 

[55trucker]

Try booting up in safe mode both with & without networking.

Now go into task manager & note what you see running & the ram you're using.

You should still be able to boot up Firefox but without networking you won't connect to your internet supplier.

Bitcoin miners? ........how did you get involved with that?

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

I'll try that ^^^.
I'm not involved with bitcoin. It's probably too late for a small player unless you have free electricity. Just read about a way that someone can use your browser to mine bitcoin. It has both up and downside; down is if you don't know about it, up is if you agree in order to help support your website instead of using ad revenue. The ad sales companies probably won't like this development.

 

[Mark_88]

The other day mu CPU started running at nearly 100% for long stretches on certain applications. It got so bad I thought it was an overheat issue so I opened it up and discovered about a year's worth of dust in my fan...toothbrush and vacuum cleaner fixed that and now the fan runs quiet and my cpu is down to normal...

My problem with Chrome I think is that it is no longer upgradeable in XP...I need to upgrade the OS and I've been waiting for some medical travel money to come through but they've been dragging their feet...

Has anyone tried Ubuntu or other non Windows/Mac OS with this? I happen to have a spare HDD that I've been considering putting in and loading that to see how that works out...

Might post a question in the Computer section below...

 

[55trucker]

I'll try that ^^^.

I didn't ask.....with *8* are you running the *classic* start menu or are you using the default *Metro* that 8 normally opens with?

something else you can look into to while the pc is running in it's regular mode....... see what's running in the background..

msconfig


bring up the *run* command, (assuming that you have *run* visible in your Start menu...

open run and type in *msconfig* ..press ok... look in the *startup* tab of the system Configuration window to see what's running in the background. If there is anything in there that you don't want running shut it/them down.

Often *junk* gets installed and that program will config itself to auto start every time when the computer boots up.

 

[pjtoledo]

near the end of URL insert ~original between jpg and [/img

,,,,.jpg~original[/img]



pull up an image that won't display, edit post to add ~original to string

 

[Otis413]

Is there any reason not to use the "address" of pics on my facebook account to "link" (right word?) to posts here?


Like this:

Right click on image > Copy Image Location > paste to my post here.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Is there any reason not to use the "address" of pics on my facebook account to "link" (right word?) to posts here?


Like this:

Right click on image > Copy Image Location > paste to my post here.

It seems to work fine. I can't see any reason why not.
EDIT; Not permanent pic

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

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