Browser issues after Windows update........

[Sav'nBass]

My connectivity has been dropping. Not really sure why. I can see the network icon and a yellow X will pop up randomly. Maybe it is my ISP... I have Comcast.

 

[MJ5150]

Firefox used to be great, simple and fast, then it got bloated and sucked. Then Chrome used to be great, simple and fast, then it got bloated and sucked. What's next? I wish someone would just make, and continue making, a simple fast browser.

Vivaldi?
SRWare Iron?
There are folks out there who have found ways to strip down Chrome and Firefox so it is less bloated.

-Mike

 

[walterw]

there was a problem within the last couple months with the newest "anniversary update" to win 10, it was borking up machines that have the OS on a SSD and the files on another drive (like mine).

the trick is to roll back to the previous build of windows 10, i did that and now i'm running smooth again with no loss of any files or whatever.

supposedly they fixed the problem and the anniversary update is now OK to get, but i haven't bothered yet.

 

[fdeck]

That used to be quite common when I first started in the business 35+ years ago. It's profoundly disturbing that it even still exists. But business managers apparently want haphazardly written code - or at least, that's all they're willing to actually pay for.

That's about when I started too, with a high school course in BASIC, that I took in ca. 1981. It changed my life. I fell in love with programming, and though I haven't pursued it as a career, the use of programming as a problem solving tool is very much a part of how I do my job today.

In my view, bad code can cost as much as, or even more than, good code. The thing that irks me the most right now is that there's a lot of code buried in devices (so called "embedded" code) with gaping security holes.