Search Term: but does not open videos on firefox. https://www.dogpile.com/serp?q=but+does+not+open+videos+on+firefox.
this Firefox install doesn't want to load Youtube.com, or gmail. https://www.dogpile.com/serp?q=this+Firefox+install+doesn't+want+to+load+Youtube.com%2C+or+gmail.
I prefer Firefox ESR on all machines. Better stability and continuity, geared for business. The 'regular' version is full of new features i.e. bugs. The ESR has been good to me so far.
@countryBoy641 I've been buying computers (and pushing their limits) since the late 1970's. Some decades (including this one), I prefer Dell over other MS-Windows machines. I always buy directly from Dell. I think the critical question is what warranty you bought with the computer. If you bought an XPS directly from Dell, you should have gotten at least a 1-year warranty. The typical warranty with the Dell XPS desktop is "1 Year Hardware Service with Onsite/In-Home Service After Remote Diagnosis". If they can't fix it for you over the phone, they send you a technician. Dell contracts with local technicians, so someone in Delaware should drive to your house/office. Dell is in Texas, BTW, which is a bit closer to you than 12,000 miles. Their phone-based tech support has varied a lot over the years, but over the past 5 years, the techs that I have talked with always spoke fluent English and almost always knew what they were doing or were willing to quickly connect me to someone who did. I always buy the higher-level service from Dell (currently this is called Premium Support Plus) for the maximum number of years because at that level, they never argue with me about whether I caused the problem or their equipment did. As long as the only equipment in the box or the laptop came from Dell, they accept my problems as their problems. With a machine that is either still in 1-year warranty or just came off it, you should be able to upgrade to the better extended warranty. I don't know the direct-to-support phone number, but you can reach them through the sales number at 866-640-3355
Do you ever direct-buy Dell refurbs? What are you doing with these babies? What kind of failure rate have you experienced over the years?
I never buy refurbs. I buy current-generation systems with more memory/better video than I need today, expecting that it will be "good enough" 3 years from now. Computers are my primary tools--I use good tools. In 1970's, I was a doctoral student. Used computers for my lab's research, personal programming, some software development consulting, the usual personal-productivity types of things and some gaming. In 1980's/1990's, I worked in Silicon Valley developing software (mainly applications for consumer/small-business or telecom system software), managing dev groups, consulting, writing books and doing desktop publishing, etc. I used computers in all aspects of my personal and professional life, and I bought or supervised buying of computers for my staff. In 2000-2017, I was a professor of software engineering, used computers in all aspects of my personal and professional life and bought computers for my lab. I taught a course on quantitative financial modelling a few times (this was more about hypothesis development / evaluation when working with complex sets of data than about my (limited) expertise as an investor). I retired in 2017. From 2009 to now, I have been managing my family's savings (as an active investor). I use mainstream trading platforms (Interactive Brokers, ThinkOrSwim, Fidelity Active Trader Pro) and AmiBroker. I've been intrigued by the market timing theories that underlie VectorVest and in some years, I use their platform as a research tool as well. My main system is an Alienware m15 R7, Windows 11, with an Intel 12800H i7 processor, 32 gigs of RAM, and an NVIDIA RTX 3070-TI. I have a 34" Dell 3440x1440 external monitor, a 43" Sony 4K (3840x2160) TV connected as another external monitor, and the laptop display (2540x1440). Together these probably give me more resolution than the typical 4-monitor setup but with better ergonomics for me. If I could change one thing, I would swap out the Sony for a 38" or 40" 4K monitor. the height of the 43" makes me crane my neck a little. I have a sufficiently (for me) fast connection to the Net. I considered getting an i9 instead of i7 to speed the backtesting, but, from the specs, the performance difference didn't seem big enough. In three years, when I upgrade again, we'll see. Along with the O/S, I have a few types of security software running. Nothing in any of my system/security software has interfered with my trading or financial-research software in the past 6 years. My worst failures were with Asus (bad hardware, lots of failures), a pre-Dell Alienware desktop (hard disk problems, incompatibility between the system as configured and Windows, video problems, it was supposed to be a top-of-the-line system for creating instructional videos and it was an all-round disaster). I used Lenovo's for a while, very good hardware, very flexible configuration choices, excellent docking stations for high-end laptops, but they have been sloppy about security: most annoyingly for me they sometimes allowed malware in preloaded software or in Lenovo-specific updates. This is the key reason I won't consider buying another Lenovo. Also, even on their workstations, the support software for diagnostics and updates were clumsy and poorly documented. I had to take too much time to learn too much in order to make an informed decision about whether to install an optional update or a recommended new system-support app. My Dell laptops have had the usual wear and tear problems (drop them a few times and they get grumpy), their update software and some other system software occasionally get confused after updating the OS or some other component that "shouldn't" have had any impact on what is now failing (so a few times I've had to run added diagnostics with help from Dell's tech support group and then reload some components). I've had audio and video annoyances that required unplugging devices and/or reloading or updating drivers. Their rollback-and-restore functionality is only sometimes reliable. But I keep good backups so, for me, this has been a hassle, an opportunity to practice my skills with colorful language, but not a disaster. On my current main machine, the Alienware-specific bells and whistles seem unreliable, but I don't need them. I played with them when I first got my machine, immediately had some intermittent problems, uninstalled the Alienware goodies, and had no further issues. My last two Dells have a PCI diagnostic that always fails (it's the diagnostic, not the hardware). Apart from that, Dell has been rock-solid. Overall, in the 2015-2022 timeframe, I'm a satisfied customer. I often have a Mac as well, reliability and support have been excellent (for decades) but at the moment there is nothing that I want to do that I can't do on Windoze, and running just one O/S is simpler now that I don't have to interface with students' work, so I gave my Mac to my mother. Several investment-support tools run less well on Macs, so even though I like the machines very much, they're not what I would recommend to professional traders.
Some of my grad students liked Chrome, including students who were sophisticated about software security. However, I have concerns about Google's and Facebook's use of customer / user / third-party-but-surveilled-anyway data and their history with courts and the regulatory agencies gives me little confidence that they will respect my privacy in the future. To my eyes, using a Google computer gives Google too much access to my financial records and investing strategies and too little insight into how they will use that information. So I don't use their computers, tablets or phones. Again, my opinion is based on factors other than performance or reliability. Your priorities and mine might differ.