I've just been completely patronised.
I was showing a work colleague an amusing vicious circle on Facebook running on Firefox. Basically, when I visited someone's profile, they had some sort of rubbish application installed which required my Flash player to be updated. A pop-up appeared informing me that I needed to download the latest version of Flash player in order to continue. I clicked "YES" upon which I was informed that in order to continue with the update I needed to CLOSE FIREFOX. Closing Firefox will mean I'm not downloading any updates, won't it. Clever pop-up.
Anyway, in showing this stupid situation to my work colleague, hoping for a laugh, Firefox decided to STOP RESPONDING. I hit ctrl-alt-delete to get to the Task Manager to forcibly close it myself. There were 5 instances of Firefox open. I was too lazy to click PROCESSES, so instead clicked each instance one by one and closed them down manually myself. My work colleague said, "Hey you know there is a tab called processes - you probably wouldn't know about it - here let me show you, if you click this, then sort alphabetically, you can close the program this way."
Er hello, of course I know about processes. I also know that if you sort it by MEMORY you can close all the programs which are causing your computer to hang and STOP RESPONDING, thus freeing more memory for the other struggling applications. DUH.
I've been using computers since 1984. I am in a bad mood now.
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- Keira
- She attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
3 comments:
I`ve also been in your situation with firefox, but on my computer, it didn`t ask me to close the browser instance. After I was clicking on that pop-up, it was telling me there is no update needed :)) After I`ve got my hard drive defragmented, it stopped doing that...
When Windows started misbehaving (sometime in November 1985) I eventually got so fed up I swapped over to Linux. As I'm not too fond of wasting 30 hours of my life compiling things every time I change a bit or hardware I eventually swapped over to a Mac (or 3) and never looked back. I am a Mac user, please feel free to patronise me
I just hate being patronised. The worst thing with this guy is that he always starts his preachings with "Well, actually..." thus nullifying anything I have just uttered.
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