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So my computer is pretty old, around 9 years old, its an ACER and still has windows vista. So I had it update and now Firefox is running super slow. My computer won't allow me to install Google Chrome saying it doesn't meet system requirements for whatever reason. I can't install iTunes either, so I'm not sure what's going on. Internet Explorer works fine too. Anyone have an idea?

Question/Problem: Gmail tab icon ramdomly appearing as if reloading

Operating System, Version and Service Pack: Windows XP SP3

Web Browser and Version: Firefox 13.0.1

Your level of experience (we simplify or explain instructions based on how you answer): Beginner

When did the problem start? Has it been going on constantly since then? This week. That would depend on your definition of constantly, but it has happened more than once for me to have my Gmail open in another tab, and the left hand icon to appear as if reloading when the page itself is not reloading. My anxiety goes sky high every time it happens.

Any steps you've taken to troubleshoot? Well, not really. I found this thread on MozillaZine forums, which describes a similar issue (just replace "continually" with "randomly", and you have my case), but the thread is from 2004.

I'm having problems with Facebook and Pinterest, both are only showing menu bars.
Given how much I use these sites I really hope you can help.

Pinterest has never worked on this laptop, it only ever loads the menu bar at the top of the page, nothing else. Last night I was playing around with Internet Properties and Chrome extensions to see if I could get Pinterest working, only since last night now Facebook is doing the exact same thing; loads menu bar, nothing else. 

Both sites work fine on my mobile phone - so not a problem with sites or with my accounts.
Tried accessing sites via both Chrome and Firefox - same problem on both browsers. 

I've had odd problems with Chrome not displaying certain things on pages before, but never this bad and in the past I believe it was due to Ad Sweeper causing problems - last night (prior to Facebook problems, in an attempt to fix Pinterest) I removed Ad Sweeper and AVG anti-virus extensions from Chrome so currently there are no extensions showing. I've attempted to re-trace my steps to undo anything I might have done in Internet Properties, but so far no luck - I've also cleared browsing data/cache and updated Java just in case. 

Operating System: Windows Vista Home Basic SP2
Web Browser: Chrome 16.0.912.75 m and Firefox 9.0.1
Level of Experience: Beginner

Behind LJ-cut is what I'm seeing, just to be clear what I mean. 

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I recently switched to Chrome from Firefox because Firefox started crashing and freezing all the time, and I'm still getting used to the differences. I asked this over in ask_me_anything, but they didn't seem to know the answer, so I thought I'd try a computer related community. Hopefully you guys can help me out! =)

How does one go about saving a page as an MHTML file? I can find all kinds of google results that say you can do it, but none really say HOW. Do I need some sort of add on, like Firefox? Google is giving me the impression that I don't, but I could be wrong. There is no MHTML option in the save window's drop down menu. *so confused* I save web pages quite often, so it's pretty important that I figure this out. =/

I don't think the computer information form is relevant to my question, but if I should include it anyway, please let me know.

os: Windows Vista Home Premium
browser: firefox 3.5.16
Problem has been going on for a while now. My fiance got one of the pretend virus protection viruses. (I honestly can't remember the name.) We eventually got it out following the instructions to wipe the virus online. I really don't remember the steps exactly anymore. I just remember transferring the programs we needed via a flash drive and running them under safe mode.

The problem is that now he can't run certain things that connect to the internet. His browsers work, but the downloaded versions of aim, msn, yahoo, and our substiuting program, Jobulator, don't work and some other programs. We've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and running under admin mode. None of that works. Another issue is that he's unable to update anything. Firefox can't update, and neither can Vista. He's been able to get the downloads themselves, but they refuse to install.

Do we need to do a recovery, or can we fix this? I'm not sure if he even has vista recovery disks.

For a while, opera has been doing this very annoying "hanging" thing where it freezes while loading some pages, and then unfreezes while it's done loading. I'd like to know if anyone else has this problem and how to fix it, before I obliterate it from my computer or shoot my computer and my entire room with a machine gun.

I have the latest version, 10.60, Windows XP home. Thanks.

Question/Problem: My Internet Explorer is working fine for all Websites, except for Websites requiring login. Basically, it doesn't let me access any sites that would give you the little "your about to see pages over a save connection" or "leave a save connection" messages. ( Such as when your logging into facebook, I can type in my information but then I get a "the page cannot be displayed" error message)

Operating System, Version and Service Pack: Windows XP Version 2002 SP2

Web Browser and Version:  Internet Explorer 7

Your level of experience :   Beginner

When did the problem start? Has it been going on constantly since then?  "the Its been going on constantly since I installed my new internet connection. That connection is working fine for all others

Would anyone have any idea why Internet Explorer has decided to stop responding? For the last couple of weeks a little box pops up stating that "Windows Internet Explorer has stopping responding". Then another will pop up stating "Windows Internet is Restarting". Then IE disappears, pops back up but the stuff I was working on or sites I was on are gone and I'll have to start over. Sometimes it takes 3 or 4 times to get IE to work at all. I'll get the same window that says "Windows IE is not responding". It's making me crazy.

Hewlett-Packard - Windows Vista
Model a6110n
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2.30 GHz
Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB
System type: 32-bit Operating System

I would appreciate any help, suggestions, advice, and a big hammer to beat this thing with.

I was wondering if anyone could help me with Safari and Firefox. With Safari, sometimes when I toggle between browsers or programs, Safari will freeze. It's clickable in the taskbar but the program doesn't come into view (if that makes any sense). Also, when Safari freezes like this, clicking the desktop shortcut on the taskbar won't work. I have to open up the Task Manager and delete the process for Safari to close properly. It didn't bother me that much before but I was typing up a long email this morning and it froze and my email was gone. So I finally got annoyed :(

I wasn't going to add the Firefox issue, but I thought that while we're on the subject .. With Firefox I noticed that it began to freeze every few minutes, sometimes even seconds. I eventually gave up and that's why I installed Safari and Opera and began to use those instead. I was using Firefox version 2 and installed version 3 to see if it would help but it didn't.

I think  I started using Safari and Opera maybe around December?

And now all the computer info and versions and all that sort of stuff.
Safari v 3.2.1.
Firefox 3.0.5
Windows XP SP2
I'm happy with an intermediate explanation

Can anyone help me? Thanks! :)

Question/Problem: I cannot see colors (like on websites) when surfing the web, nor can I see headers on livejournal. How can I fix it (if possible)?
I've provided a screenshot. Click for larger:

Operating System: Windows XP
Web Browser and Version: Internet Explorer 7
Level of Experience: Beginner
When did the problem start? Two years ago. Yes, I've been trying to figure it out since then.

MODS: I'm not sure exactly under which tag this question would qualify, please let me know and I'll edit it ASAP.

Thank you very much.