Older versions of Firefox...safe to use?

esuhl

barbiedoll wrote: »

I've been using the "zoom-out" facility but it's a bit tiresome having to do it for every website that I visit, and for every page!

Doesn't Firefox remember zoom settings as part of the "Site Preferences" feature...? Is Firefox set to delete this information when it closes? Try going to Preferences / Privacy... And if "Use custom settings for history" is selected, click the "Settings..." button and un-tick "Site Preferences".

barbiedoll wrote: »

Firefox do have a nifty add-on...NoSquint, which does remember the setting for each site that I have previously visited. When I downloaded the latest FF this afternoon, the pages were all far too big for my screen and the definition was very poor. I did fiddle around with the Windows settings to no avail. I ended up resetting FF to a basic version which is exactly like the really old versions with the old-style look. I only have a couple of add-ons and I'm definitely not turning Adblock off!

Are other applications "too big" too? Do you have the correct graphics drivers installed? Do you have the native resolution selected (in the display settings via Windows Control Panel?)

barbiedoll wrote: »

I like the look of the Palemoon browser but I don't know if my CPU will be good enough, it's a Pentium 1.73GHz...probably too old/slow?

Should be fine (maybe a little slow to start up). I run the latest version of Firefox on my ~8 year old Pentium 1.6GHz laptop without any problems. I also have it running on a PIII 1.0GHz PC. The official system requirements don't state CPU speed (although a CPU supporting SSE2 instructions is recommended -- but it works fine on my PIII without SSE2): https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/22.0/system-requirements/

barbiedoll wrote: »

I really, really don't want to go back to IE but it seems that FF is catering for the newer high-definition devices, my old laptop is getting left behind.

I think there's some other problem... although I can't work out what!

If you open a command prompt window and type "firefox -p", Firefox will start with the profile menu. It might be worth creating a new profile to see if the problem is related to some kind of profile corruption.