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To: Stan who wrote (91834)	11/16/2015 10:58:42 AM
From: LTBH	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Respond to of 110655

Have you tried disabling all FF addons/extensions? What are you using for email? If Outlook or similar, do you have same problem if using Yahoo or Comcast or such? My only "bog down" issue seems to be related to post 40 releases/corresponding Adobe releases ... not sure which is culprit .... get occasional freezes which ultimately clear if left alone but can take 10 secs to maybe 90 seconds before FF is responsive again .... would downgrade to 40 if wasn't such a bookmark/password hassle. Hopefully FF and or Adobe will ultimately correct the problem .... of course it could always be an MS issue with all the sneak stuff they are up to nowadays ... has anyone looked at some of the "detailed" descriptions of KBs last couple of months .... certain KBs are alot of gibberish hiding whatever the real intent of the patch. Luck LTBH

To: Stan who wrote (91834)	11/16/2015 11:14:10 AM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110655

Slow to Upgrade? A Peter Bright Gem ... ... and some think individuals or enterprises still using XP are Luddites: arstechnica.com Paris Orly airport had to close temporarily last Saturday after the failure of a system running Windows 3.1 — yes, the operating system from 1992 — left it unable to operate in fog. French satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné reported the failure, and Vice expanded on the claims. Orly uses a system called DECOR to communicate Runway Visual Range (RVR) information to pilots. In poor weather conditions—such as the fog the airport experienced on Saturday—this system is essential. Last Saturday it stopped working, and the airport struggled to figure out why. This use of ancient systems is apparently not unusual. Vice quotes Alexandre Fiacre, the secretary general of France's UNSA-IESSA air traffic controller union, as saying that "The tools used by Aéroports de Paris controllers run on four different operating systems, that are all between 10 and 20 years old," with Windows 3.1 being joined by Windows XP and unspecified UNIX systems. Fiacre says that the systems are poorly maintained as well. Moreover, the age of these systems means that it's hard to find staff who can work with them, with Fiacre explaining, "We are starting to lose the expertise [to deal] with that type of operating system. In Paris, we have only three specialists who can deal with DECOR-related issues." And this problem is getting worse as "One of them is retiring next year, and we haven't found anyone to replace him." Le Canard Enchaîné writes that according to France's transport minister, airport systems will be upgraded by 2017. Fiacre, however, is unconvinced, saying it will be "2019 at the earliest, perhaps even in 2021." Whenever the upgrade does happen, they might even switch to something made this century. # # # - Eric L. -

To: Stan who wrote (91834)	11/16/2015 12:49:14 PM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 110655

wouldn't mind that much memory usage if it didn't bog everything else down Exactly, ram memory is either used or not and specific memory usage is somewhat irrelevant as long as you don't max out usage and performance isn't affected. Your system bogging down with a moderate number of browser windows and tabs doesn't seem right though. * * *