Humphrey The Pug
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Why can't I log in on FirefoxAny ideas on why I can't log in on Firefox, I can do it fine on IE.
When I go to log in my password and username are both correct but upon clicking OK (or whatever it is) I'm directed back to the log in page.
Thanks
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"him"
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I have a similar issue with mine, what I have done for a long time is to use the "log in to check messages" link rather than the simple "log in" link.
Whether this sets a more persistent cookie I am unsure, but it works for me.
Give it a try?
Are you running Firefox 3.5.3?
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Pkh72
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I'm using the latest version of firefox without any issues at the moment, strange.
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Chris M Wants a V-10
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| Pkh72 wrote: | | I'm using the latest version of firefox without any issues at the moment, strange. |
+1, been using Firefox for a couple of years and never had an issue with this site
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Mark
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Sometimes Firefox is just as pish as IE, in my experience.
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BeN
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I'm using FireFox too, and seem to have no problems.
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PG
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I've just switched to Google Chrome. Wow it's way, way quicker than IE. And OK so far.
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Rodge
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| PG wrote: | | I've just switched to Google Chrome. Wow it's way, way quicker than IE. And OK so far. |
I switched a few months ago and haven't looked back.
Regarding the Firefox problem, the forum software is probably optimised for IE. Sometimes, different browsers won't run certain pages as well as others and don't recognise certain commands in the software.
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DaveGibson
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I've been using the BT Yahoo browser, which I believe is based on IE. For some time, certain websites (e.g. Autosport) have raised errors which have closed down Java and stopped some of the website functions from working. When I elected to update it, it didn't but instead installed IE8, which no longer causes these errors. Whatever its deficiencies, which I don't doubt, at least I can look at Autosport again.
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tali
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FF can piss about no end- updates can play havoc and fixes are savagely complicated.I think best option is a reinstall
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Humphrey The Pug
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It's weird as I had no problem with Firefox on my last PC.
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DradusContact
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| Humphrey The Pug wrote: | | It's weird as I had no problem with Firefox on my last PC. |
You on Vista now? Ive got vista 64 bit at home, the 64 bit part seems to make a big difference, some programs wont run at all.
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Humphrey The Pug
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Yep Vista 32 bit, maybe that's what's causing the problem.
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TimR
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How do you know how many bits your Vista is in?
I'm having a load of problems with this laptop (an HP) including it randomly deciding to change the shortcut on iTunes so I couldn't find any of the music on the hard drive and it does seem to have problems with Internet Explorer although they, coincidentally I'm sure, often occur when I'm looking at Autotrader.
When it lost the iTunes library on Saturday it nearly ended up in more than 64 bits 
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Humphrey The Pug
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My new PC has already frozen on me two or three times.
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DradusContact
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| TimR wrote: | | When it lost the iTunes library on Saturday it nearly ended up in more than 64 bits |
Itunes shouldnt delete your library on you. If it was going to it would warn you and ask for your permission.
One tip for my tunes is to tell it you will sort your music yourself, if it organises your songs for you it moves each song into its own folder, at least with me it did anyway. I had it like that for about 5 minutes, it took me about 2 hours to put all the music back in the correct order:
Artist - Track Name.mp3
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TimR
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| DradusContact wrote: | | TimR wrote: | | When it lost the iTunes library on Saturday it nearly ended up in more than 64 bits |
Itunes shouldnt delete your library on you. If it was going to it would warn you and ask for your permission.
One tip for my tunes is to tell it you will sort your music yourself, if it organises your songs for you it moves each song into its own folder, at least with me it did anyway. I had it like that for about 5 minutes, it took me about 2 hours to put all the music back in the correct order:
Artist - Track Name.mp3 |
It didn't lose the music it's just that the icon on the desktop was 'pointing' somewhere else so when you double clicked it and iTunes opened up you got a welcome screen and no music list. It was ok on Saturday morning but this happened when I went back on it on Saturday afternoon.
With 30GB of music on here the laptop would now be in the back garden if it really had deleted the music.
Mine has all the music in a folder for each artist then a sub-folder for each album. (I presume you mean the 'iTunesmusic' folder rather than the list you get when you open itunes itself?).
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DradusContact
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I thought you might of meant the actual songs had gone.
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BeN
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That's pretty much how iTunes sort the songs. Although "Compilations" get a separate folder, sorted by album then song.
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TimR
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No thank god.
It has encouraged us to get another Mac though.
Our existing one has been tidied up and is running better than ever but unfortunataly Mrs Tim has commandeered it for her music (having got a load of music recording/mixing software for free) so it won't be getting used for storing iTunes stuff and she'll be trying to keep it off the internet as far as possible.
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DradusContact
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My music is in one giant folder. Complete albums go into folders based on the album title, and the rest just all sit in one folder, some 3000+ songs all alphabetical.
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Chris M Wants a V-10
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| Humphrey The Pug wrote: | | My new PC has already frozen on me two or three times. |
...because it's running Vista. My PC, now about 7 months old and running Vista home premium continues to freeze daily and crash at least once per week.
EDIT: and there are seemingly never-ending operating system updates, some of which take ages to install, and with each passing week it's taking longer and longer to boot up and be ready for use
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TimR
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I find that mine occasionally takes longer to shut down. Everything appears to be off except the power button stays lit in orange and you can hear something (the hard disc?) whirring away, sometimes for up to 5 minutes.
In addition it occasionally won't open iTunes and the only solution is a restart.
Does Internet Explorer work ok on Macs?
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BeN
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| Chris M Wants a V-10 wrote: | | Humphrey The Pug wrote: | | My new PC has already frozen on me two or three times. |
...because it's running Vista. My PC, now about 7 months old and running Vista home premium continues to freeze daily and crash at least once per week.
EDIT: and there are seemingly never-ending operating system updates, some of which take ages to install, and with each passing week it's taking longer and longer to boot up and be ready for use |
I think you may have a problem. Best get it checked.
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Matt
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| TimR wrote: | | Does Internet Explorer work ok on Macs? |
IE hasn't been supported since 2003 and is a good decade old. You can get it at the odd location and it's quite cool that you can change the colours of the logos to match the iMacs of the day.
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Humphrey The Pug
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| Chris M Wants a V-10 wrote: | | Humphrey The Pug wrote: | | My new PC has already frozen on me two or three times. |
...because it's running Vista. My PC, now about 7 months old and running Vista home premium continues to freeze daily and crash at least once per week.
EDIT: and there are seemingly never-ending operating system updates, some of which take ages to install, and with each passing week it's taking longer and longer to boot up and be ready for use |
Well I have got a free Windows 7 upgrade so I'll see what happens, it's out soon.
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Boxer6
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| TimR wrote: | | DradusContact wrote: | | TimR wrote: | | When it lost the iTunes library on Saturday it nearly ended up in more than 64 bits |
Itunes shouldnt delete your library on you. If it was going to it would warn you and ask for your permission.
One tip for my tunes is to tell it you will sort your music yourself, if it organises your songs for you it moves each song into its own folder, at least with me it did anyway. I had it like that for about 5 minutes, it took me about 2 hours to put all the music back in the correct order:
Artist - Track Name.mp3 |
It didn't lose the music it's just that the icon on the desktop was 'pointing' somewhere else so when you double clicked it and iTunes opened up you got a welcome screen and no music list. It was ok on Saturday morning but this happened when I went back on it on Saturday afternoon.
With 30GB of music on here the laptop would now be in the back garden if it really had deleted the music.
Mine has all the music in a folder for each artist then a sub-folder for each album. (I presume you mean the 'iTunesmusic' folder rather than the list you get when you open itunes itself?). |
My Macbook hard drive went to that great hardware-scrapyard in the sky last week. 4000+ tracks (mostly from CD's) went with it, along with a bunch of photies (no back-up either ~ Doh!)
Apple have since bent me over to the tune of £129 for a new one (out of warranty,) and I can't synchronise my iPod anymore otherwise all the tracks already on it will disappear - synchronising only works Mac-to-iPod, not the other way round! Wankers! 
On the plus side, I now have two 1TB external hard-drive back-ups, one for me and one for Rebecca - Highers this year, so the last thing she needs is to lose all her work!!!
As an aside, in all the computers I've owned/used over the years (50+, easily) the Macbook is the first one to ever lose its hard drive!!!
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SpecB
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I am sure there is some third party software to put the songs from your ipod onto the computer. A mate of mine used it when his hard drive went tits up.
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Boxer6
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| SpecB wrote: | | I am sure there is some third party software to put the songs from your ipod onto the computer. A mate of mine used it when his hard drive went tits up. |
Got it - either Senuti or iPod rip. Downloading Senuti even as I type!
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DaveGibson
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| Humphrey The Pug wrote: | | ....... Well I have got a free Windows 7 upgrade so I'll see what happens, it's out soon. |
How 'free' is that? Unless the machine came from Mesh or Chillblast, you'll be charged a 'handling fee' of between £10 and £32 or even more. The highest figure is Fujitsu (actually 36 euros) but Dell wouldn't reveal their charge.
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Chris M Wants a V-10
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Wimdows 7 upgrade has got to be worth it over vista.
As to Macs....... had to buy my daughter a MacBook for her uni course. It arrived last Monday, 8 days after ordering it direct from Apple to get the student discount. Last night she called to say it will not boot up at all. Looks like it needs replacing under warranty. Maybe Windows isn't so bad after all. This has certainly coloured my opinion of Macs, though :-(
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Humphrey The Pug
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| Chris M Wants a V-10 wrote: | Wimdows 7 upgrade has got to be worth it over vista.
As to Macs....... had to buy my daughter a MacBook for her uni course. It arrived last Monday, 8 days after ordering it direct from Apple to get the student discount. Last night she called to say it will not boot up at all. Looks like it needs replacing under warranty. Maybe Windows isn't so bad after all. This has certainly coloured my opinion of Macs, though :-( |
Bought my daughter a mac book 6 weeks ago, it's fantastic.
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Humphrey The Pug
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| DaveGibson wrote: | | Humphrey The Pug wrote: | | ....... Well I have got a free Windows 7 upgrade so I'll see what happens, it's out soon. |
How 'free' is that? Unless the machine came from Mesh or Chillblast, you'll be charged a 'handling fee' of between £10 and £32 or even more. The highest figure is Fujitsu (actually 36 euros) but Dell wouldn't reveal their charge. |
According to my paperwork it's totally free, I just have to go into PC World after the launch day, which I think is 22nd October and just pick up my free copy.
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Boxer6
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| Humphrey The Pug wrote: | | DaveGibson wrote: | | Humphrey The Pug wrote: | | ....... Well I have got a free Windows 7 upgrade so I'll see what happens, it's out soon. |
How 'free' is that? Unless the machine came from Mesh or Chillblast, you'll be charged a 'handling fee' of between £10 and £32 or even more. The highest figure is Fujitsu (actually 36 euros) but Dell wouldn't reveal their charge. |
According to my paperwork it's totally free, I just have to go into PC World after the launch day, which I think is 22nd October and just pick up my free copy. |
Wasn't there a thread on the general shittiness of PC World just recently?!?!
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Humphrey The Pug
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| Boxer6 wrote: | | Humphrey The Pug wrote: | | DaveGibson wrote: | | Humphrey The Pug wrote: | | ....... Well I have got a free Windows 7 upgrade so I'll see what happens, it's out soon. |
How 'free' is that? Unless the machine came from Mesh or Chillblast, you'll be charged a 'handling fee' of between £10 and £32 or even more. The highest figure is Fujitsu (actually 36 euros) but Dell wouldn't reveal their charge. |
According to my paperwork it's totally free, I just have to go into PC World after the launch day, which I think is 22nd October and just pick up my free copy. |
Wasn't there a thread on the general shittiness of PC World just recently?!?! |
I bought it from them as I don't have to pay anything for 12 months.
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DaveGibson
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Makes a change for PC World to offer customer service.
Having said that I'm wondering about getting a netbook from them. They're offering the Samsung N110 for £300 which is cheaper than anywhere else but Pixmania
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DradusContact
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Dont see what all the problem is with vista. Runs a dream on mine. Booting up from cold to the desktop takes under a minute and you can use the programs straight away, no waiting for other pgrams to use. I do watch mine like a hawk though, all the crap like itunes and quick time that try and open with the computer are disabled.
They say Vista is very ram hungry, but this is good as the alternative is relying on your hdd to load it up as needed, and ram is about a million times faster than a typical 7200rpm hdd.
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Mark
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| DradusContact wrote: | | Dont see what all the problem is with vista. Runs a dream on mine. Booting up from cold to the desktop takes under a minute and you can use the programs straight away |
+3 (machines)
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TimR
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I've got Vista on this HP laptop but although it usually opens fairly quickly it's still much slower than my Mac.
I wonder, though, if Mac unreliabilities are in some way related to them moving across to Intel type processors (is that right? My tech knowledge is limited).
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Humphrey The Pug
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Whilst my daughters Mac Book is working fine and has so far not caused any issues now she is in the "Mac World" and the vast majority of her new circle of friends own one, it appears that they are not as faultless as I have been led to believe.
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Pkh72
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I've got Vista on the Toshiba laptop at home and never had an issue with it, although it doesn't really get too much of a hammering.
Now i've said that i'll doubtless be having issues now.
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DradusContact
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| Humphrey The Pug wrote: | | Whilst my daughters Mac Book is working fine and has so far not caused any issues now she is in the "Mac World" and the vast majority of her new circle of friends own one, it appears that they are not as faultless as I have been led to believe. |
Theyre as much a fashion statement as anything now. Apple have gone from being the edgy alternative to the evil mega company micro$oft but now theyre almost as big and twice as evil.
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Humphrey The Pug
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| DradusContact wrote: | | Humphrey The Pug wrote: | | Whilst my daughters Mac Book is working fine and has so far not caused any issues now she is in the "Mac World" and the vast majority of her new circle of friends own one, it appears that they are not as faultless as I have been led to believe. |
Theyre as much a fashion statement as anything now. Apple have gone from being the edgy alternative to the evil mega company micro$oft but now theyre almost as big and twice as evil. |
Fashion statement for some, but if you are doing an art, photography, graphic design etc course at college or university you will need a Mac as all the software and computers are Mac based, as Macs ae far better for arty type applications.
But as their popularity is now growing quite considerably I can see them going the same way as many niche type products that break into the mainsteam, the quality falters somewhat.
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DaveGibson
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| DradusContact wrote: | | .......... They say Vista is very ram hungry, but this is good as the alternative is relying on your hdd to load it up as needed, and ram is about a million times faster than a typical 7200rpm hdd. |
By saying that Vista is RAM hungry, they mean that its programs need to use a ot of memory at the same time. To illustrate the point Windows XP will run on a computer with just 256Mb of memory. My PC has, for most of its life, run with 512Mb but that is not enough for Vista to load its programs because a minimum of 1Gb is required. All computer systems page the contents of the memory in and out as different parts of the software are used. If you defrag your hard drive you'll see the page file - it's the green bit that never moves and should be one and a half times the size of the memory. So if you've increased the memory of your PC and not increased the page file - it would be a good idea to do it.
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Martin
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When I bought a MacBook it allowed me to sync all the tunes from my iPod, so it should work the other way?
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TimR
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You can change the sync settings - I've got mine NOT syncing since my iPod is 16GB but I've got 30GB of music on there.
Not sure about importing from the iPod though.
I'm sure it's possible. 
Edit: Yep it's possible as mentioned earlier in the thread.
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Martin
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| TimR wrote: | You can change the sync settings - I've got mine NOT syncing since my iPod is 16GB but I've got 30GB of music on there.
Not sure about importing from the iPod though.
I'm sure it's possible.
Edit: Yep it's possible as mentioned earlier in the thread. |
My iPod is 16gb and I have more music on the laptop, but that's what playlists are for. I don't have every playlist on there all the time, so can sync without any problems. It also means I don't have to have all Mrs M's music on my iPod.
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Matt
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A large amount of Mac gripes I hear these days are the laptops, with hardware failing. The Mac operating system isn't as faultless as it was, either, hence I'm staying with Tiger as it's super-reliable.
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DaveGibson
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| Matt wrote: | | ......... The Mac operating system isn't as faultless as it was, either, hence I'm staying with Tiger as it's super-reliable. |
A BBC report the other day said that Snow Leopard was so poor it had given Microsoft a window (sorry) of opportunity with version 7.
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Matt
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I don't deny it. They've peaked and lost the quality they had as recently as 2005 when I bought mine.
I solved its overheating problem by removing 4-years-worth of thick dust collected on the underside air intake on Sunday. Runs much quieter now.
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Boxer6
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| Martin wrote: | | When I bought a MacBook it allowed me to sync all the tunes from my iPod, so it should work the other way? |
You can do that if all your songs were purchased via iTunes store, it says here. (/points to Senuti blurb) which is also what the Apple store 'Genius' told me.
The Senuti programme is fine, but the free version I have limits you to 1000 tracks - I have 4000+!!
I will look into purchase costs, because I really don't want to have to re-burn all those CD's!!
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