To follow up on my previous post here, I'm very pleased to report that earlier today, I made an account on my Firefox browser, allowing me to use its "sync" feature to save my browser history between both of my computers, allowing me to use either one of them for my daily web browsing without losing access to any of the websites I frequently visit. For the first time since I first got my laptop way back in late summer of 2010, I am now posting here on GoF using a desktop computer rather than said laptop.
Okay, so it was hardly perfect, seeing as only some of my long-term browser history was transferred over to my desktop.
But it seems my desire to perfectly save my complete browser history was always going to be futile, because it turns out my laptop's browser history maxes out at five and a half years (I was able to determine this by scrolling all the way down to the bottom of my complete browser history and among the earliest pages currently listed was a news article from when Leonard Nimoy passed away).
Still, I'm very happy that I can now comfortably do the vast majority of my web browsing on my desktop. No more waiting several minutes and doing absolutely nothing so my laptop could cool down after little more than opening a bunch of news articles in a short amount of time. No more complaining about having no way to hide all the emoticons while I'm typing posts here because all those moving images slow things down for me. No more getting frustrated whenever I see any posts by Sharpely (no offense, but your moving avatar and flashy signature image were especially excessive on my laptop's CPU usage). No more trying to press hard on certain keys on the keyboard to ensure that those particular letters are actually entered while I'm typing. And finally, no more constantly checking my laptop's resource monitor to ensure I was not at risk of overheating to the point of it suddenly shutting off.
As an added bonus, now that I'm no longer doing any intensive web browsing on my laptop, it turns out that the old thing still seems to run remarkably well. Sure, it still suffers from the occasional unexpected shutdown whenever I try putting it into hibernate mode at the end of the day, but now it's no longer such a big deal anymore. I'm honestly not sure what further use I can make of that old laptop, but I'm definitely gonna hold onto it and occasionally turn it on in case if I do need it. (At this time, the only use I can think of is if I need to use two computers at the same time, such as checking something online on my laptop while I'm also playing a game on my desktop.)
Now I just need to figure out the question of how exactly I'm going to continue with my fanfiction writing, but I think I might already have a potential solution...
