[OU] tab limit?

[Peter Saint James]

On 29  February2008, at 4:15 AM, Sogn Mill-Scout wrote:

> The serious problems I've had are twofold:
> (1) Drop-down menus appear and then freeze, and remain
> on the screen even when I ALT-TAB to another program,
> and Opera freezes. This happens with any menu - e.g.
> clicking on FILE or BOOKMARKS on the menu bar; clicking on
> my own bookmark folders on the personal bookmark bar; or
> right-clicking on a link or elsewhere on a page. Sometimes
> the menu will disappear when I do CTRL-ALT-DEL; other
> times that doesn't work and I have to use CTRL-ALT-DEL to
> shut down Opera.

	I have experienced something similar.  I attribute it to the  
computer doing so many tasks at once that it takes time to get back  
and deal with things like drop-down menus.  By the time it gets back  
to doing it, it forgets what it's supposed to do.  (Despite all the  
hype, computers still have room for improvement in multi-tasking.)   
When it balks, I take this as a reminder to me to have a bit more  
patience.  I sometimes growl at the computer, telling it that it's  
supposed to do what I want when I want it.  Doesn't help.



> (2) Videos malfunction in one of two ways: They either start
> and then freeze, or else the video aspect runs fine but
> there's no sound.

	Steaming videos don't always stream all that well.  I have assumed  
that the problem is on the other end or with the ISP.  Sometimes when  
a video won't stream, I go read another tab and let it buffer for a  
while.  When I come back it's far enough ahead that it will stream  
fairly smoothly.  It doesn't always work, but it helps fairly often.


	The only thing that I can think of for you to do is to make sure  
your computer is working at optimum level:  clean the caches, make  
sure your periodic maintenance is up to date, that sort of thing.   
You might try defragging your machine.  That used to help when I was  
using a Windoze machine, but I've heard it's less important with more  
modern computers.

						
									Peter