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Mozilla Unleashes Firefox 6
Datamation ^
| 16 August 2011
| Sean Michael Kerner
Posted on 08/17/2011 4:46:57 AM PDT by ShadowAce
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To: ShadowAce
I never trusted Gill Bates and Gal Dore!
I do have IE on my PCs; but I don’t use it, mainly because so many pseudo-aMericans insist bad things will happen if I attempt to remove it...?????
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posted on
08/17/2011 5:36:22 AM PDT
by
gunnyg
("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
To: GreenAccord
I’ve got my own issues with Google. But is Microsoft any better? Certainly Facebook isn’t, though they’re not really relevant here.
To: KarlInOhio
That's what I was thinking. Seems they are being taken over my marketing driods... "Got to have a major revision number update! That gives the users the impression there are big new things..." While delivering only incremental changes?
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posted on
08/17/2011 5:45:26 AM PDT
by
ThunderSleeps
(Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
To: 9YearLurker
Adblock, mouse gestures - might be some other features that it has that the regular Chrome doesn’t that I’ve forgotten.
I did not spend a lot of time analyzing the difference between Chrome and Chromeplus. I found Chromeplus, tried it, liked it, decided it was a more comfortable fit than Firefox and so adopted it. Browsers are not a big deal to me.
To: ShadowAce
I’ve had nothing but trouble with FF5 - it would hang. Will 6 make it better or worse? I had to switch to IE and believe me, I want OUT. I have a new machine with 12 gigs of RAM, quad processors, and Win7 Professional.
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posted on
08/17/2011 5:50:50 AM PDT
by
Bookwoman
("...and I am unanimous in this...")
To: expat1000
Oh, those c-r-a-z-y mouse gestures...heh!
To: 9YearLurker; ShadowAce
This concern of ShadowAce - I got tired of that with Firefox.I guess I would say that Chromeplus fills all my needs out of the box. I haven’t added any add-ons at all. I was forever messing around with them with Firefox.
“I lost a few extensions/add-ons when I upgraded from 3.6 to 5. How many might I lose upgrading to 6”
To: Bookwoman
Will 6 make it better or worse? I don't know--I'm still on 5.
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posted on
08/17/2011 5:53:57 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: hummingbird
“Oh, those c-r-a-z-y mouse gestures...heh!”
I’m not sure how to take that!(?) But page-back/page-forward gestures which are all I ever use - those are essential to me.
To: 9YearLurker
My experience with Microsoft Office and such is that over-featured software becomes a real issue, but useful features are, well, useful.
Many software developers think they have to add more to make it better. Thus, their product(s) become glutware.
I have uninstalled many for that very reason. I also get mad when they take out some feature(s), as those are usually the ones I used.
One example: My current XP firewall is about 7 meg. The newest version from the same company is over 35 meg.
I have dropped several virus programs for the same reason -- they become so glutted with unwanted features that they slow the computer to a crawl.
I just recently tried out Avast's version 6 which I had to uninstall. The version 6 has a built-in sandbox program which conflicts with an independent program called Sandboxie. Even turned off, the Avast sandbox causes Sandboxie to not work. I have used Sandboxie for years and would drop Avast before I drop Sandboxie.
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posted on
08/17/2011 5:58:56 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: expat1000; 9YearLurker
Losing extensions is a legitimate concern. It's what makes each user's version of firefox theirs--it's what make it usable for them.
I honestly don't know which ones--if any--would be lost in the upgrade. I use several that seem to update themselves fairly quickly with each firefox update.
We'll see.
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posted on
08/17/2011 5:59:38 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: TomGuy
The other thing is software that’s constantly ‘on’, communicating on the Internet, and taking up too many resources. My Lexmark All-In-One software is like that—never anything else from Lexmark for me!
To: Bookwoman
Ive had nothing but trouble with FF5
It may be some of the extensions/add-ons/plug-ins you use. I have used FF5 on both XP and Win7 and had no trouble with it hanging up.
I did, however, install it clean -- uninstalled existing FF, then installed my add-ons. FF5 can install OVER the existing FF files, but it does not clean out unused items.
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posted on
08/17/2011 6:04:16 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: 9YearLurker
never anything else from Lexmark for me!
Same here. Several years ago, I bought a Lexmark inkjet locally (not many stores in this town of 14k). It had a 30 day warranty. I bought it for home use, so I only printed occasionally. It printed about 20 pages and then the mechanism locked up. Of course, that was a couple of days after the warranty expired. It was nothing but junk. I swore I would never buy anything Lexmark again -- and I haven't.
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posted on
08/17/2011 6:09:39 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: Bookwoman
I hear you about FF5. I just upgraded to 6 about a minute ago.
It actually does feel better.
Should you upgrade on the advice of someone using it for a whole minute?
Totally your decision :-)
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posted on
08/17/2011 6:15:40 AM PDT
by
Tribune7
(If you demand perfection you will wind up with leftist Democrats)
To: ShadowAce
FF3.6.x is stable for me but lacks many features.
FF4 was really bad as it would freeze up repeatedly and took 3 times as long to launch as Chrome5 and IE9.
FF5 seemed to resolve those problems as I didn't have problems with it - but it still didn't give me anything useful I didn't already have with IE9 and C5.
I just installed FF6 and it locked up on FR ... not the best first impression but I'll give it a week and decide if it makes my primary or alternate browser (currently IE9[32bit] and FF5 (because my work apps function better on FF5 than Chrome).
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posted on
08/17/2011 6:22:28 AM PDT
by
DesertSapper
(God, Family, Country . . . . . . . . . . and dead terrorists!!!)
To: ShadowAce
Do I have to download everything all over again? All my add-ons? Personalities? Etc???
Kinda sucks, even if the improvements are actually improving things...
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posted on
08/17/2011 6:25:28 AM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.)
To: 9YearLurker
“The other thing is software thats constantly on, communicating on the Internet, and taking up too many resources. My Lexmark All-In-One software is like thatnever anything else from Lexmark for me!”
You might want to get a freeware program called Winpatrol. All those programs make registry changes, and this software will not allow that without your approval, and will also help you identify which process is doing it should it get installed, and allow you to easily disable it.
http://www.winpatrol.com/download.html
To: GreenAccord
I watched an It gets better ad sponsored by Google They ran an ad implicitly admitting that their software sucks but promising to improve it in the future?
To: ShadowAce
Hope it fixes whatever happened on Monday that screwed up Firefox royally.
Some sort of update was installed, thinking it was for Windows & and Firefox has been upgephuqued ever since.
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posted on
08/17/2011 6:30:24 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Obama and the Dems - The flash mob raiding the Treasury.)
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