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Why is BF so slow, and what to do?

Old 02-25-15, 07:52 PM
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Old 02-25-15, 08:42 PM
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I have no issues with speed, performance or annoying ads.........Samsung tablet/android....no subscription...

But.... I would like to join...are there any reasons to join at certain tImes rather than others?
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Old 02-25-15, 08:44 PM
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Old 02-25-15, 09:18 PM
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You guys have to pay every year for a membership?

I bought the lifetime one way back. I've never seen ads on this site.
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Old 02-25-15, 10:31 PM
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Old 02-25-15, 10:36 PM
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I find that after a couple of days, Firefox starts eating up about 4 GB of RAM, and everything with my computer seems to slow down (I have a bad habit of opening more windows than I need).

Close and re-open Firefox, and everything seems to be ok again (for a while).

You-Tube seems to be one of the worst offenders for making the computer slow, and I never leave a page that had YouTube on it open for longer than I absolutely have to.
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Old 02-25-15, 11:03 PM
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Old 02-26-15, 05:25 AM
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Or just play yer guitar.

Pony up, DN. You'll be glad you did.
...reminds me of a little Mellencamp.....
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Old 02-26-15, 05:25 AM
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Get into Add-Ons and clean out whatever you aren't using.
Originally Posted by CliffordK
I find that after a couple of days, Firefox starts eating up about 4 GB of RAM, and everything with my computer seems to slow down (I have a bad habit of opening more windows than I need).

Close and re-open Firefox, and everything seems to be ok again (for a while).

You-Tube seems to be one of the worst offenders for making the computer slow, and I never leave a page that had YouTube on it open for longer than I absolutely have to.
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Old 02-26-15, 06:07 AM
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I have just bought my yellow jersey
Wow, and just think what LA had to go through just to get a few of them! BF IS really cheep!
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Old 02-26-15, 06:29 AM
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Someone will probably point how I'm wrong here (quite likely) but I say don't blame BF. Blame the inventors of HTML5. Everything (Did you say everything? Yes. Okay, continue.) takes (Did you say takes? Yes. Okay, continue.) so much (Did you say much? Yes. Okay, continue.) interactive communication (Did you say communication? Yes. Okay, continue.) that web (Now what? I'm looking for a plural noun, senator. How about books? No, something smaller. How about pages? Yeah, that's it. Okay, you can have pages.) pages (Did you say pages? Yes. Okay, continue.) load (Wait, please refresh before continuing) slowly (Wait, I said refresh before continuing) <refresh> Everything takes so much <connection lost>
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Old 02-26-15, 06:53 AM
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You guys have to pay every year for a membership?

I bought the lifetime one way back. I've never seen ads on this site.
Got the old "lifetime" red star membership back in 2008 when I first joined the site, BTW it wasn't a lifetime duration, I believe it was listed at 17 years, or something weird /similar, off in the future back then. I went to the titanium membership when it came out so I could support the site, just my choice. It is worth the slight cost, I have been through a cycle now and renewed it on time (auto renewal.) For what I get here it is pennies wells spent. Also, isn't the use of ad blockers against the rules of usage? I seem to remember some threads about that and some arguments about how it could ever be enforced except by the persons sense or right or wrong. Never mattered to me as I hadn't heard that, or was using adblocker, it slowed my system, strangely.

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