Re: Firefox 3.5

In article <00059c5d$0$7722$c3e8da3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Janet Wilder <kelliepoodle@xxxxxxxxx> 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 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.

The _only_ down-side to hibernating, vs. re-booting, is that hibernating
doesn't recover any memory leaks. It is -absolutely- no different from
leaving the machine on the entire time (or letting it go into 'standby'),
*except* for the _zero_ power-consumption.o

Is is the proverbial "good idea(TM)" to save whatever you are working on
before hibernating -- on *rare* occasions, a machine won't come out of
hibernation properly, and you do have to do a 'start from scratch' boot-up.
In -that- specific situation (only!), you do lose any 'unsaved' work you
had in any applications that were open at the time.

If you can't remember who told you, and _why_, I _wouldn't_ worry about it.

I think I've _heard_of_ problems with machines coming out of hibernation
a total of 3 times, since 2002. this includes personal machines, family,
friends, and work. Probably 20+ machines, all told. So, there's around
150 machine-years of experience that says problems are *really* rare. :)


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