Sorry for the lack of information; version is VectorLinux-5.8-standard-GOLD (which I discovered, downloaded and installed yesterday

and the internet application firefox.....anyway, I've found a solution to my problem, i came across a cool feature in the distro which is Gslapt Package Manager with an update option

that did the trick

however, since the update, the videos streaming with mplayer plugin in firefox are slower than the sound when I go fullscreen. I did not notice they were before, is it normal that they are now? Something I should not have updated maybe

edit: managed to sort that one too, I put the line "framedrop=yes" in the mplayer config file; works fine now

......and that's an old computer sold with windows millenium back from the dead
