I.E. vs Firefox

[George]

Not sure, but have you tried clicking a part of the web page that is clean? I.E. where you can't click to another page. I've done that and the up/down keys worked fine.

Yeah, that's what I usually do, but sometimes that doesn't even work. I'm guessing it's a bug with the new Firefox.

BTW, anyone know where you can download the old version of Firefox? I think I want to go back to it.

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

Don't intend to waste any more time on a stupid thing as a browser so no more installs re-installs, tweaks, or whatever. I'm switching fulltime to firefox till opera completely resolve this.

Hasn't been adressed even in the latest weekly build. Yes, if I have multiple downloads, Opera becomes unresponsive sometimes.

[Opus106]

BTW, anyone know where you can download the old version of Firefox? I think I want to go back to it.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html

Just as I went to the page, I received an alert from Slashdot: Firefox Breaks 8 million, Gets into Guinness

[mn dave]

Firefox kept freezing up on me so I'm back to Safari (at home). I'm sure that soon I will be reminded of why I stopped using Safari in the first place. 

[George]

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html

I tired that link yesterday. When I downloaded it, it turned out to be Firefox 3.0. 

Do I have to have 3.0 uninstalled first?

[Opus106]

Do I have to have 3.0 uninstalled first?

Yes.

[George]

Yes.

Thanks! 

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

BTW, the Opera performance problems should have been fixed with todays 9.51 release, I think it was this:

Fixed a resource leak in the transfer window that could cause visual paint problems and other related problems.

[orbital]

Possibly the most useless firefox add-on in existence 
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1938

[drogulus]

     You can run both FF 2 and 3 if you use different profiles for each. If FF3 is freezing create a new profile using the Profile Manager. Then you can right click on the shortcut of the new one and add in the target line:

    "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P NewProfile -no-remote where NewProfile is the profile name (no spaces allowed).

     Then open up the Profile Manager for your old FF and specify the old profile. Now FF 3 won't freeze and you can set it up how you like, either the same as the old one or different. They can run at the same time, so you won't have the problem of clicking on one and having the other one come up. 

[Opus106]

Possibly the most useless firefox add-on in existence 
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1938

I hear the Neanderthals love it. 

4 stars!!! Maybe those people want to surf in the IE 6 way but with a lot more security.

[Opus106]

You probably already know about this if you are Firefox+YouTube fanboy/girl, but in case you didn't check out Video Download Helper

For the past two versions, this extension lets you convert the flv file to some other video format. 

[ezodisy]

any of you chaps having problems with videos? I'm using Firefox's latest version and what's happening is that after a few videos the screen freezes and then no longer plays them (any videos from any website). The browser continues to work fine but it's not possible to view videos again until clearing cookies. No problem with IE however. I upgraded to the latest Java hoping it might solve it but no luck. Not sure if this is a new problem since the addition of the Tabs extension...

[Opus106]

I don't face any such problems, and I've been using TMP for a long time.

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

any of you chaps having problems with videos? I'm using Firefox's latest version and what's happening is that after a few videos the screen freezes and then no longer plays them (any videos from any website). The browser continues to work fine but it's not possible to view videos again until clearing cookies. No problem with IE however. I upgraded to the latest Java hoping it might solve it but no luck. Not sure if this is a new problem since the addition of the Tabs extension...

Erm, most videos are adobe flash or media player plugin based. Don't know what your problem is, but better update those.

[ezodisy]

Wurstwasser, thanks but after updating from 3.0 to 3.0.1 of Firefox the problem has gone away. I had to reinstall TMP though everything seems fine once again. Cheers

[ezodisy]

I was still having problems with videos not playing and strange movement with tabs so I decided to do a clean install. It appears to have worked. In addition I wasn't aware that my popup blocker was no longer working. All back in order now at least. Clean install seems to be the main solution for these types of problems.

[ezodisy]

or media player plugin based.

I should have looked into this immediately instead of upgrading then clean installing. Adding the MP plugin--which for some reason didn't appear to be installed--seems to have finally solved it

[ezodisy]

for the love of god it's stopped working again!!!!!

[drogulus]

     Do you have automatic updates turned on? If you do some extensions or plugins might be broken by the newest version. It might be better to turn off the automatic feature and use "Ask me what to do" instead.