OT: Troubling Smell

On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 10:59:33 -0700, Jim Thompson Gave us:

Firefox, chrome, google, the NSA, Windows explorer... etc.

What>? You didn't already know that, genius?

Den tirsdag den 29. september 2015 kl. 19.59.39 UTC+2 skrev Jim Thompson:

something in firefox hung so it kept on running when you closed it

-Lasse

Firefox generally stays running for a few minutes after you close it. Checking the process list will show this. Have no idea if this is true when it crashes, but there may be a parent process that remains alive when the child process crashes. Sometimes you actually have to go in and kill the leftover process to get a clean restart of Firefox when this happens, or it will keep hanging up.

Jon

Yep. I should have thought of that :-[ ...Jim Thompson

How about a clue on the troubling smell? Burning resistors, burning logs, burning tires, etc? Maybe just feces or urine? Your cat been in there on your keyboard again?

"Firefox.exe always open"

One possible cause is: "Faulty mouse creates erratic cursor movement." Has your mouse had its 10,000 mile checkkup yet?

Incidentally, Google Chrome browser has a setting with: "Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed" which is enabled by default.

When you're ready, I have a few overpriced slide rules for sale.

I don't think so. I run a thorough scan weekly and come up clean all the time.

I've only been burned once in my PC lifetime: An E-mail purportedly from a recognized friend proclaiming "fantastic joke"... took me a week to cleanup the mess :-(

So I now trust no one.

Couple week old mouse... Logitech M510, which I buy repeatedly when I wear them out.

No thanks! I have the _original_ antiques, stained with my own perspiration, even a circular Post...

engraved with my initials ~1958 ;-) ...Jim Thompson

On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 12:28:29 -0700, Jim Thompson Gave us:

Boy, doesn't that say something about your lack of diagnostic prowess...

You should be buying *other* mice and finding *another* one you enjoy so much, as the shitbox logisux mouse you keep buying keeps dying, and trust me, they are supposed to be hardy enough to handle a fat fingered, heavy handed putz like you.

I've observed that the process stays running if you close the window via the window manager's close button instead of the File->Quit menu.

This morning my cell phone played a commercial with no prompt from me. It was still being charged (I hadn't touched it yet).

I was thinking that you might go down the list of possible culprits that would keep Firefox open after you close it. Several of them are legitimate reasons and not malware. There have also been at least 2 bugs that would keep Firefox open after you close it. The usual problem is that you have it set to purge your history and illicit viewing and downloading habits on exit. It does the purge, but forgets to close have cleaning up the evidence. For example: Anyway, run the task manager and monitor how long Firefox remains running after you close. If Firefox disappears instantly or in about a minute or two, it's doing some cleanup and working correctly. If it hangs around for much longer, something is wrong.

Yeah, it happens to everyone, usually at 2AM, after a day full of problems, when the brains defenses are at their lowest levels. I've had my share of putting Humpty Dumpty back together again after some malware scrambles my disk drives. All the kings backups, and all the kings IT people, couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

"Only the Paranoid Survive" (Andrew Grove).

Good enough. I have several of those (because they're cheap at $15 when on sale). However, I've wasted quite a bit of time dealing with the "Unifying" software and pairing multiple devices. I've also had to disable the "tilt wheel" feature, which I tend to activate unintentionally.

My favorite mouse of the week is the Lenovo BlueGoof Laser Mouse: One gotcha is that there seems to have been some that were shipped with intermittent mouse button microswitches. The switches were easy to find on eBay, but finding a 1.5mm hex security driver to get into the mouse was a PITA. It's smaller and lower than the lumpy Logitech M510, which fits my hand better.

I made it through college with the two 6" slide rules. The other two, I pickup up later. I add a few more to the collection last year. I'm saving them just in case slide rules make a comeback after a general revolt against computing.

To avoid the frustration of Windoze and computing, you might consider going back to using a slide rule. However, if you must use a computah:

On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 15:17:03 -0500, John S Gave us:

I typed fast and left out " to see" between stupid and that.

You are an idiot, child.

On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 15:17:03 -0500, John S Gave us:

You're just pissed because you are too stupid to see a reference to a phrase that has been around since 1599!

Bwuahahahahaha

On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 16:44:26 -0400, rickman Gave us:

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Yet another retarded loser asshole who didn't see what he meant.

It's probably Nymbecile indulging her fetish and experimenting with faecal material.

Na na na na bu bu.

Mikek

Na na na na bu bu!

Mikek

Don't feed the troll. ...Jim Thompson