Can Firefox Be Saved? Two Proposals

Datamation ^ | 4 April 2011 | Serdar Yegulalp

[DollyCali]

BTTT

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

One thing that is “broken” with FF 4.0. I am NOT a mac person at all but I have a secondary computer at work which is a PPC-based Mac G5 that I use mostly for VNC and Web. Anyway, I donwloaded FF 4.0 and installed it (but it has a circle with a line drawn through it) so of course it doesn’t work.

FF 4.0 does not support PPC-architecture for MacOS and apparently never will. So that is broken - at least in my book.

[discostu]

Somebody get this guy a copy editor. After the 4th painfully bad chunk of English (”launches and browsers”?! WHAT) I could no longer take his opinion seriously.

[calex59]

I don’t know what this guy is talking about. FF 4 works just great on my machine and it is faster than the older version I replaced. Everyone I know who has upgraded to 4 loves it,except for the moving of the refresh button, but that is minor. FF doesn’t need saving, it is doing just fine as it is.

[dfwgator]

I use Pale Moon, which is a fork of Firefox, which is more lean, it comes up much faster, it may not have all of the bells and whistles, but it does what I need.

[ken21]

i like the new firefox, but i cannot run yahoo games on it.

[USS Alaska]

Do you integrate the Norton “Identity Safe” into FF 4.0? Cuz even Norton is saying they can’t do that yet (and I just bought the Norton 360). It’s specifically the Identity Safe that won’t work for me, not Norton as a whole.

I don't know, because all I did was down load FF4 and the Norton icon lite up and said it was recognized and is safe.

My Norton Security Suite has 4 parts, 1) PC Security 2) Identity Protection 3) Backup 4) Tune up. They all work, and that's as technical as I can go.

I don't buy Norton, it comes with Comcast so I don't know the version of Norton.

[martin_fierro]

True dat.

[DaGman]

I’ve been using FF 4 since Beta 6 on a 6 months old HP laptop and I have had zero problems. It’s much faster than v3, it hasn’t hung, crashed or not handled things it should handle. It asks to install plugins when appropriate and they work right the first time.

I’ve also got it on an older Gateway desktop running Vista. That one my granddaughter uses when here on weekends and not one single problem with FF on that one either.

This guy needs to know what he’s talking about before he slams an excellent product. If he can’t install it or use it correctly, that isn’t FF’s fault.

[JaguarXKE]

Ok, then we're talking Apples and Oranges. There are parts of Norton 360 that don't integrate with the new Fire Fox (yet). Specifically, the Norton 360 Identity Safe which is used to store all your login info (encrypted) and auto-fill all your log-in fields for web sites like FR, or any others.

[JaguarXKE]

Ok, then we're talking Apples and Oranges. There are parts of Norton 360 that don't integrate with the new Fire Fox (yet). Specifically, the Norton 360 Identity Safe which is used to store all your login info (encrypted) and auto-fill all your log-in fields for web sites like FR, or any others.

[Grut]

Do you know of a way to get the reload button back to the left side on the Linux version? Drives me nuts.

Right-click on the Menu bar, click on 'customize' and drag the reload button to where you want it. Works fine on Linux Mint 10.

[octobersky]

That bothered me, too, but I found a neat add-on called New tab toolbar button 1.1. It's experimental but seems to work okay.

[Popman]

Funny I just ran across this thread because I just dumped foxfire after upgrading ?to it’s newest version

Got sick of the stalls, hiccups, freezes, burps

Went to crome tonight

[FourPeas]

revered the "open in New Window" and "Open in New Tab position in the drop down box.

Thank you!! I thought it was just me forgetting where it was found.

[raybbr]

A guy who reads the NYT and is pushing Google Chrome? Not for me.

FF 4 is neat and I like it.

[steve86]

That worked, thanks. I had opened customize but didn’t think of dragging the new button duh.

[Fire_on_High]

Better for all 3 machines we’ve updated. All running XP SP3, 2 of them fairly sturdy beasts with 2 GB RAM, another an ancient clunker with 512 MB. No crashes, notedly faster.

I’ll update the Vista box soon also, but for now I have one addon that hasn’t been updated and I’d like to keep it around til it is.

[Fire_on_High]

You need to make sure Java is updated then, and make sure anything like Noscript is set to allow it. I just loaded Yahoogames Literati to check and it works fine here.

[ken21]

thanks.