You're not seeing that orange-ish tab at the upper left?
Posted on 03/09/2014 5:31:26 PM PDT by ducttape45
My 99.9% comment was a hint that you opinions or information, is useless and uninteresting to most people.
You are a computer whiz with strong opinions (which is typical), great, but nothing you have said has helped me.
I don’t have a problem with security, and for 20 years have gotten my free computers from people who do, I’ll continue updating, unless I become as expert as you.
I was responding to your questions, which I can only presume you intended to be rhetorical, but this was not clear.
I disagree with your opinion that me opinions or information is useless and uninteresting to most people, as I have gotten some very good feedback over the years. Since most readers do not take the time to give feedback, it stands to reason that there are at least a few who perhaps get something out of my posts here and there. It’s because of this occasional positive feedback that I disregard the occasional nasty feedback.
That's odd. I have 25 and I am able to shut off updates. It never tries to update me. There may be something wrong with your install.
I would suggest getting MozBackup, backup your profile and your bookmarks then do a complete wipe of your Firefox...clean the registry too. There are easy tools for that. Ace Utilities for one.
Then get a fresh download of 25...or older if you like...and reinstall it. Import your profile and bookmarks then set it to not update ever. See what happens.
I’m with you on all points. It’s something about using WinME that got me that way. I want control. I do not want to be told that my PC is not secure from willy nilly updates at the whim of whoever says my PC is not secure.
If installed, “Mozilla Maintenance Service” should appear as “MozillaMaintenance” in the list of Services, in the Windows Task Manager window.
If your version of Mozilla Firefox is 27.0.1, “Mozilla Maintenance Service” should have at least been installed with that version ... according to online info.
There is also an application, “updater.exe”, here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\Updater.exe
Perhaps (I sure do not know), moving it to some temporary folder, will prevent the automatic updating?
As a test, I moved it, just to see if Mozilla Firefox would balk ... but Firefox (version 27.0.1) seemed to run OK.
You're not seeing that orange-ish tab at the upper left?
Nope. I don't have that tab at all. This is the first I've ever seen it.
What a mystery.
I keep calling it a “tab” because in years past, an icon or device at the edge of a file or folder, was a tab; but I guess now with the advent of TABS *within* Internet browser windows, some call the orange-ish thing a “button.”
Given the problems reported on this FR page, I would un-install all Mozilla software, and follow that by running a cache cleaner, and follow that with a restart of the computer.
After which, I’d run a Registry cleaner; and, probably use that Registry utility’s feature to search for “Mozilla” and “Firefox” in the Registry ... to see if anything looks obviously as though it should have been cleaned out ... and make note of that.
Then, another restart, and after *that,* install a fresh copy of Mozilla Firefox, via the FTP source:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
(Navigate to find Firefox 27.0.1, the installer, and download it -— also getting the md5 or sha1 checksum and verify the downloaded file “Firefox Setup 27.0.1.exe”.)
Install it.
Check to see if your “menu toolbar” is checked. It’s the toolbar that says File Edit View History, etc across the top. If you uncheck that toolbar, the Firefox orange rectangle will appear at the upper left.
Eureka!
That worked. Thanks for showing me how to turn that tab on (I had to fiddle around a bit to switch it back to my normal set-up).
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