Re: Firefox 3.5

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:57:20 -0400, bill horne <redydog@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

Janet Wilder wrote:
Robert Bonomi wrote:

If you haven't discovered it, investigate how to "hibernate" the machine
rather than the regular 'shut down'. It powers the machine _completely_
off, like a shut down, *BUT* it saves the complete machine state as of
when you hibernate, and the machine comes back on, full up, *WITH* the
same programs already running (in exactly the state you left them in, at
hibernation time), in a matter of a few (like less than 10 on a -slow-
machine) seconds.

This is one of the few things that Microsoft _really_ "got right". It
_almost_ makes up for the terrible start-up time of the O/S, and of many
applications.

I used to hibernate my lap tops all the time but some one told me not to
do it because it wasn't safe. I can't remember why.

I've been hibernating my laptops and desktops for years without any
problems.

I would love to hibernate the desk top. Firefox takes long to open only
on boot up, so hibernation would work so well, but now I'm afraid to do it.


I've disabled hibernation on my last two laptops by HP. Not that
anything deadly happens, but it is a pain in the ass.

Randomly, not all the time, it fails to come out of hibernation,
and I have to restart it by unplugging it and briefly removing
the batteries. Both in Vista and xp2.

There's just nothing that hibernation does that is worth the
trouble.

Bob
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