I have been a firm advocate of Ubuntu for the last year of so, I've been using it in preference to Vista on my little sony VGN-TX5MN laptop. Although the lappy came with Vista loaded, it's always been painfully slow both to boot and to do stuff, whereas Ubuntu has been fast an reliable. It was dead easy to set up a dual boot and install Ubuntu.
Anyway, just recently I've been plagued by a really annoying intermittent problem in Ubuntu and I'm being forced to use Vista as I don't have the tech background to figure out the problem - also posting in the Ubuntu forums has so far been fruitless, although I can see others are having similar issues.
Anyway- the problem -
On an apparently random basis, using either Firefox 3 or Opera, Gmail just won't load. I have cleared cache, cookies and all private data over and over - sometimes this helps, sometimes it doesn't.
I did download epiphany - it works ok about 95% of the time, but I'm having trouble getting it to connect to gmail all the time.
Occasionally on an equally random basis I have a problem posting on forums using Firefox (and this morning Epiphany)- instead of posting my reply it offers me a php file to download.
I have been running Ubuntu without a problem for nearly a year with no problems.
My net connection method is a bit unusual in that I use my Nokia N73 via bluetooth as a modem, but it's worked fine up to now, and it still does if I boot into Vista.
Anyway, just recently I've been plagued by a really annoying intermittent problem in Ubuntu and I'm being forced to use Vista as I don't have the tech background to figure out the problem - also posting in the Ubuntu forums has so far been fruitless, although I can see others are having similar issues.
Anyway- the problem -
On an apparently random basis, using either Firefox 3 or Opera, Gmail just won't load. I have cleared cache, cookies and all private data over and over - sometimes this helps, sometimes it doesn't.
I did download epiphany - it works ok about 95% of the time, but I'm having trouble getting it to connect to gmail all the time.
Occasionally on an equally random basis I have a problem posting on forums using Firefox (and this morning Epiphany)- instead of posting my reply it offers me a php file to download.
I have been running Ubuntu without a problem for nearly a year with no problems.
My net connection method is a bit unusual in that I use my Nokia N73 via bluetooth as a modem, but it's worked fine up to now, and it still does if I boot into Vista.
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