Firefox 4 - I desperately want back to my previous version, please.

nickj_2

anyone else havinhg problems with multiple tabs ?
i have 5 open as my homepage , but so far i can only use the 1st one ,when i click on any others nowt happens , all in all this appears to be a bit of a let down

xbrenx

nickj wrote: »

anyone else havinhg problems with multiple tabs ?
i have 5 open as my homepage , but so far i can only use the 1st one ,when i click on any others nowt happens , all in all this appears to be a bit of a let down

hmm I just set 5 random pages as homepage tabs and it reopened up fine, and all the tabs are selectable and usable.

Inactive

I have just noticed that Google Maps doesn't seem to function with FF4, it will not expand, it is fine with Google Chrome.

Andrew1472

Inactive wrote: »

I have just noticed that Google Maps doesn't seem to function with FF4, it will not expand, it is fine with Google Chrome.

Seems to be using a lot of memory, but it's working fine for me.

I don't quite know what to make of Firefox 4. It's almost as if it wasn't tested properly, but it was in beta for 12 months. Strange!!

HO87

Andrew1472 wrote: »

Seems to be using a lot of memory, but it's working fine for me.

I don't quite know what to make of Firefox 4. It's almost as if it wasn't tested properly, but it was in beta for 12 months. Strange!!

Firstly, I'm probably biased as a very longterm FF user. However, although the resident geek in the household has been using FF4 since it first went to beta I've deliberately held off from using myself until it was released and have hammered it flat for the last couple of days in an effort to get it to fall over.

I have encountered only one bug when with multiple tabs set up and whilst streaming video the drop-downs on the menu bar would close before I could make a selection - but I've not been able to reproduce it since.

The only vague - but easily resolved - issue was the homepage button location on the right-hand side of the toolbar, Easily fixed by right click>customise and clicking on and dragging the icon to the opposite end of the toolbar.

As for memory usage I've not found this to be excessive (currently a total of 29%) at all but this may not be a fair comparison as I am running Ubuntu 10.04 on a six year old 2Gb machine rather than the majority who I suspect are running some Microsloth product.

free4440273

Andrew1472 wrote: »

Seems to be using a lot of memory, but it's working fine for me.

I don't quite know what to make of Firefox 4. It's almost as if it wasn't tested properly, but it was in beta for 12 months. Strange!!

lol/ yeah, I'd agree! Mozilla

Andrew1472

HO87 wrote: »

Firstly, I'm probably biased as a very longterm FF user. However, although the resident geek in the household has been using FF4 since it first went to beta I've deliberately held off from using myself until it was released and have hammered it flat for the last couple of days in an effort to get it to fall over.

I have encountered only one bug when with multiple tabs set up and whilst streaming video the drop-downs on the menu bar would close before I could make a selection - but I've not been able to reproduce it since.

The only vague - but easily resolved - issue was the homepage button location on the right-hand side of the toolbar, Easily fixed by right click>customise and clicking on and dragging the icon to the opposite end of the toolbar.

As for memory usage I've not found this to be excessive (currently a total of 29%) at all but this may not be a fair comparison as I am running Ubuntu 10.04 on a six year old 2Gb machine rather than the majority who I suspect are running some Microsloth product.

I don't doubt your experience regarding memory for one minute.
It should work properly on all configurations though, like Windows 7 for example.
Unless I have something seriously wrong with my PC, it doesn't.
I will admit that I have gone searching for the sites that cause the memory problems, and so I'm perhaps more aware of it than many due to following http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2115677&sid=f7accb4717477f52ae25d0a4b58db355.

I could, perhaps, have used it day to day for weeks without trouble, then suddenly found one of these troublesome sites, with the result that my PC would become very slow or unresponsive.
Would I have realised why? Maybe, maybe not.

It's a huge flaw in my opinion, which Mozilla should have sorted long before release. It's such a shame because I would be using it now if it were not for this.

free4440273

Andrew1472 wrote: »

I don't doubt your experience regarding memory for one minute.
It should work properly on all configurations though, like Windows 7 for example.
Unless I have something seriously wrong with my PC, it doesn't.
I will admit that I have gone searching for the sites that cause the memory problems, and so I'm perhaps more aware of it than many due to following http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2115677&sid=f7accb4717477f52ae25d0a4b58db355.

I could, perhaps, have used it day to day for weeks without trouble, then suddenly found one of these troublesome sites, with the result that my PC would become very slow or unresponsive.
Would I have realised why? Maybe, maybe not.

It's a huge flaw in my opinion, which Mozilla should have sorted long before release. It's such a shame because I would be using it now if it were not for this.

I agree with u Andrew/ resting on one's laurels / I really hope Mozilla do not / otherwise, a downward spiral.... :whistle: and exit a substantial user base en masse!

Backbiter

I can't find the 'Most Visited' button that was on the left belwo the Back arrow. I really miss that!

I was also really cheesed off that it installed the Yahoo toolbar without asking me. I was able to get rid of it using the Tools> Add-Ons menu.

jayme1

Backbiter wrote: »

I can't find the 'Most Visited' button that was on the left belwo the Back arrow. I really miss that!

I was also really cheesed off that it installed the Yahoo toolbar without asking me. I was able to get rid of it using the Tools> Add-Ons menu.

you can get to it by clicking the bookmark button, holding your mouse over 'bookmarks toolbar' and 'most visited' is there

or
you can turn on the bookmarks toolbar again if you want, just right click the toolbar and select 'bookmarks toolbar'