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Realtek WLAN driver page RANT

Ok, they used to have a direct download link to obtain the WLAN driver. very easy, click to download. painless. yeah the site looked windows 2000 era, however I don't care. just give me a functioning download page! Now you gotta navigate thru their bloated site, find your driver, be presented with a "agree to terms" tick mark, enter your email, and wait for a friggin email. Then you get the email, have only 5 MINUTES to get into the email, and then click the link and be taken to A CAPTCHA PAGE! and then you wait for the download! what if you're on a slower computer and it takes more than 5 minutes to even load the email!? Or you are doing this on a client's pc and you don't want to login your email on someone else's computer? Did reaktek even think this thru? nope. they wanna be able to have a bloated but pretty site that's script heavy and has a lot of server load on just a pretty site and then throttle the dowloads. Why not just have a simple...

time for tech--->Firefox 5.0 has been released!

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Update... I got the scrolling addon, the screen capture one to work! Here's how I got that to work: save the add-on .xpi to your desktop you must navigate to the addons page (not using the addon browser, but going to the ff addons site) and right click on the download button>save as> save the xpi file then: rename the .xpi to .zip open the zip and extract the install.rdf open the install.rdf with any text editor find 4.0.* could be any version number edit to 5.0.* save and put back in zip overwriting the original and save zip rename .zip back to .xpi open firefox and "install add-on from file" find modified .xpi  So this is how you get those addons working that won't work in the latest version of FF! easy and nice! installed.... some critical addons not working like my realplayer one and my smooth scrolling one.... will wait a lil to use it... Here's a lil performance graph: 20 tabs, 25 browser actions, flash/html5 not loaded yet: will...