Anyone else starting to find Firefox a bit tedious?

bat999

poppy10 wrote: »

Firefox 5 is out now, worth a try

I'm testing Firefox-5b7.
I don't think that Firefox-5 has been officially released yet.



Edit
It's just updated itself:-

z3phyr04

No, I never understand how people have trouble with Firefox. Use it on every machine I work on (including a 5 year old Dell Inspiron laptop on Windows 7) and I don't have any issues with it.

prowla

z3phyr04 wrote: »

No, I never understand how people have trouble with Firefox. Use it on every machine I work on (including a 5 year old Dell Inspiron laptop on Windows 7) and I don't have any issues with it.

I have used FF for ages as my preferred browser, but with FF4 if you have multiple windows open and middle-click on a link (to open it into a new tab), the link may not open in the current window but in another.

That is a bug that makes FF4 (on Windows) unusable for me. It does it in safe mode, with all plugins disabled, so it is FF4 itself.

I only have it on one PC, and I'll see if there's an update in a while or so, and if not then I'll be reverting to FF3.

z3phyr04

prowla wrote: »

I have used FF for ages as my preferred browser, but with FF4 if you have multiple windows open and middle-click on a link (to open it into a new tab), the link may not open in the current window but in another.

That is a bug that makes FF4 (on Windows) unusable for me. It does it in safe mode, with all plugins disabled, so it is FF4 itself.

I only have it on one PC, and I'll see if there's an update in a while or so, and if not then I'll be reverting to FF3.

Aah, well I won't have run into that then. My MX Air doesn't have a middle button and I always prefer context menus to do stuff like open new tabs from links. :rotfl:

BargainGalore

Using it now seems slightly quicker for me. Also roboform works if you update it with latest build

esuhl

Firefox isn't the leanest program, and some of the add-ons do slow it down but I can't say I've had any problems with it on ony of my machines...

somersethillbilly wrote: »

I set up a machine... with a tweaked Netgear DG834G router.

I have one of those routers! What kind of tweaking did you perform? I'm curious...

23n1th wrote: »

The paradox with NoScript is that if you need it you generally wont be able to use it properly, and if you know how to use it you really don't need it.

I'm not sure I agree with that. I installed it on my ol' mum's PC and she's been fine with it. Also, I've seen quite a few reports of adservers hosting malware, so blocking scripts from ad sites is probably a good security precaution.

mrochester

Many a time I have tried other browsers but I always come back to Firefox. The drop down address bar is the main thing that makes me come back as this is totally missing in Safari and Chrome.

flexrider

speaking on firefox mine dont work at all-Wont show any pages i wish to view in it so i uninstalled it. Still a great browser but was annoying on how i could not see anything in the browser so installed crome now.

poppy10_2

mrochester wrote: »

The drop down address bar is the main thing that makes me come back as this is totally missing in Safari and Chrome.

Try this extension for chrome:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/logbmehmiacemkimbpcbjgaikobdndah?hl=en-US

I_know_my_ABC_and_my_CMYK

AirCooledHeaven wrote: »

I first started to use firefox when it was version 2.x, and at the time it was a complete revelation compared to IE6 I was using at the time. Faster, less bloated, cleaner interface. But with each upgrade it seems to become more like the browser it was trying to replace. I'm now running 3.6.17 and I have several niggling problems that are starting to really annoy me and set me wondering if it's now time to ditch it. Particularly, any page containing flash animation is painfully slow to navigate, trying to scroll a page with a flash advertising banner for example is really painful. Secondly, it often refuses to open pdfs within the browser, it displays a blank screen (with 'done' shown in the status bar) or else a black screen with the pdf loading indicator stopped at 100%. If I opt to save these pdfs instead they subsequently open without problems.

Oh, and not to mention the
"Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system." error message which appears to be a new 'feature' from 3.6.15 onwards.

Is anyone else having these problems? Fed up with firefox?

For info I'm using win XP 32 bit and all my plugins are up to date.

PS I have no desire to change my OS to Linux thanks, I'm sure it's great, but not for me right now. My system is scanned and clean (malwarebytes, spybot, AVG, trend micro). Thought about chrome but worried about all the other stuff google trys to install these days, don't want a browser that phones home every day or insists on integrating gmail and all the other google gadgets.

Thanks for your input

Must admit i don't like the new version of Firefox - versions 4/5.

Search for older versions, think the website is called old apps, I'm running a 3. something with the update box un checked so it cannot up date.

Had no problems up to now.