Tag Archives: Mac

Firefox Is A Memory Hog With Memory Freeing Issues

Posted on 12 May 2018 by E.M.Smith

Adventures in Macintosh land with mini-SD card performance / size limits and FireFox excessive memory use (leak?) and Macintosh sloppy swap management… Continue reading →

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MacBrightness Mal-Feature

Posted on 18 March 2018 by E.M.Smith

I’ve found out why my Mac screen wanders in brightness and how to stop it. Continue reading →

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Opera Speed Dial De-Googling and Obscurity

Posted on 11 September 2017 by E.M.Smith

How to remove the forced Google Search Box from the Speed Dial page on Opera… on a Mac Continue reading →

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WanaCry Ransomwear Attack

Posted on 13 May 2017 by E.M.Smith

A Ransomware attack by a worm named WannaCry, exploiting an NSA hack, has taken down many NHS sites, FedEx, and a couple of Spanish and Portuguese telecoms, among others. This is a place to discuss it. Continue reading →

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