Entertainment For Lively Minds
Come on yooooou threads!
I look at this here blog on several different machines, but primarily a 6 year old PC at home. I know, I know...where's me ear trumpet etc.
On the PC, if I click on a thread with lots of you tube clips - sometimes time stands still while the PC thinks about it. Sometimes, after 5 minutes of silence, a baffling message pops up asking me if I want to continue or stop a script. Don't know, Sir.
Worse, my GLW sometimes comes to the PC to discover a frozen Word discussion thread about Richard Thompson's ball bag (or something). To give some context, I tell her that I read the blog because I have a scholarly interest in popular music culture. My case is undermined by that sort of thing.
As is always the case with computers, it's probably my fault somewhere down the line. Is there something I can do? At work, you can't see the embedded youtube clips. Maybe I can do that on some sort of setting somewhere?
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A six-year-old PC
Will always struggle to display threads featuring lots of embedded videos.
Try http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=407abe76609a6ba...
Are you using Internet Explorer?
Try switching to Firefox instead. It's much faster and wayyy more stable and you certainly shouldn't see those script error messages. No problems with my PC which is about as old as yours.
I'm still (sometimes) using
An eight-year-old Dell laptop with a Pentium 4 chip. (Although I did upgrade the RAM and the hard disk.) Runs surprisingly well.
In terms of browsers, I (subjectively) find that Chrome performs best on old hardware.
Thanks everyone
Yes I use Mozilla Firefox as a browser, seems to be more capable than Chrome. Might just come down to getting a new computer.
At the risk of stating the obvious
Reinstall the operating system if you have the discs and upgrade the RAM. I have some 5ish year old IBM Thinkpads which run video better than some modern machines. The operating system is XP and they have 2gb Ram with a dual core processor. Yes, they were a good spec when new and Thinkpads are superior machines but I expect to get a couple more years out of them yet.