NoobCake

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NoobCake #Tech Talk

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I want a better laptop My netbook is so weak and can barely run any other games besides maplestory (which has a bit of a lag, but it doesn't bother me). I would like to play other games smoothly though, like Allods or WoW on the highest setting with no lag whatsoever. I've been asking friends for suggestions on good laptops with a budget of $500 (hoping that my dad would buy me this for christmas) so I was wondering if basilers can help me out. I don't normally ask for a lot and most of the time I buy whatever I need with my money. But hopefully this laptop will last up to 10 years before I'm able to purchase a new and better one then. This is the current laptop my friend has suggested and I think it's excellent for it's price range, but I'

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Firefox is slow while downloading Every time I have to download big files (like today, I was downloading WoW's Starter Edition, which was 10GB), my Firefox is slow when loading webpages. Sometimes it wouldn't load the page at all and give me the typical "something went wrong" page. I'm pretty sure my laptop is strong enough to run both at the same time, so it must be the web browser issue. I don't want to download Google Chrome and test my theory just yet. I'm wondering if there's a way to stop Firefox from being slow every time I download a big file. Additional Info: [*]Firefox 10.0.2 [*]Only 4 add-ons with a theme [*]Not too many tabs open (around 3 tabs)