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To: ShadowAce
Firefox updates: I no longer call them updates. I call them breakpoints, because I know damn well that when I install them something will break.

I know, can't complain at the price, but, bah!

30 posted on 06/04/2013 9:36:08 PM PDT by TChad
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To: TChad

The thing with updates is that although it improves some features, the plugins and software devices used with Firefox tend to quit working with a update. Most recently the very latest update which it auto updated for me stopped working with my internet downloader software, the Internet Download Manager. So I uninstalled and re-installed the previous version using a site that houses old versions of applications. I then changed the setting to ask me if it wanted to update. And when it does I don’t install. In honesty there is no need to update especially since everything works right and the websites will be the same anyways. But also since there is a big change coming this fall then why not wait till then in 5 months.


36 posted on 06/05/2013 6:01:16 AM PDT by Mozilla
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To: TChad
Firefox updates: I no longer call them updates. I call them breakpoints, because I know damn well that when I install them something will break.

Agree completely. And it likes to put tabs on top instead of bottom and you have to go into the code via "about:config" to change it.

There is one add-on that does help in making add-ons work that have been previously disabled due to a FF update:

Disable Add-on Compatibility Checks 1.3

40 posted on 06/05/2013 6:58:13 AM PDT by CedarDave
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