Surprise

[viridian5]

So I've been talking about how my computer had been shutting itself down once a night and the remote AVG tech thought it was an issue of the machine running too hot. I air-blasted its fan, adjusted its seating on the laptop cooler, and pondered buying a new computer. Nothing helped. This went on for about two weeks

Comments

[aubergineautumn]

I'm glad your problem got fixed! Firefox is killing my computer too, it is lazy loading and also freezing the machine w/ this script is running slow, would you like to discontinue it pop-ups.

[viridian5]

Thank you. I feel a little better that it's not just me having problems with it. (Sorry!)

[grey853]

I'm glad you found a solution, though I hate that you lose firefox. It's my fave browser.

[viridian5]

Mine too! Some folks at DW suggested cleaning my cache and looking for an older version of Firefox to install instead, but week of shutdowns have made me so gunshy.

[anonymous]

You can stop it doing this: https://superuser.com/questions/1048029/disable-auto-refresh-tabs-in-chrome-desktop although apparently it's tryng to save your RAM so since your laptop is a little elderly you may notice a difference and want to turn it back on.