Phishing Protection is a feature which warns users when they attempt to reach a site Google suspects of hosting identity theft scams. Beltzner said Google asked Mozilla to disable the feature in Firefox 2.0.0.19 because the older browser line uses an obsolete protocol.
"The Phishing Protection feature in Firefox 2 relies on data provided by Google via the first version of the SafeBrowsing protocol," said Beltzner. The most recent version of the protocol is SafeBrowsing v2.2.
Firefox 3.0 has relied on SafeBrowsing v2.1 since its release several months ago, but is moving to v2.2 this month for its anti-phishing and anti-malware features.
Mozilla kills anti-phishing in Firefox 2.0 Google urges Mozilla to drop SafeBrowsing
TECH PING!
After watching urlclassifier3.sqlite grow to 50-100 MB in FF3, I turned the options off. Don’t fall for these tricks anyway.
BTW, Firefox 3.0 SUCKS. I stopped using it. It has a nasty habit of just "dropping off" ... and the only workaround is restarting your system!
FMCDH(BITS)
The only thing I can think of is that I stall installing updates, and it auto did one this am, just said 1 but I didn't look what it was. Instead of waiting for it to do a normal termination, you can choose restart now or later. When it was 3/4 done, I hit restart now figuring it would finish first. It didn't and immediately shut down. Then I rebooted and found out IE7 doesn't work. It is the one with flash and all the add ons so I can watch movies and use sophisticated sites so I'm sol until we get this figured out.
So my best *guess* is the update was aborted and now I don't know which one it was to back it off and try again. But it certainly could be something else.
Then I googled w/Netscape and found all kinds of things when pages won't load with some version of IE, too complicated, did change my LAN settings, didn't work, so put them back the way they were. Not much help and I don't like to blindly trust just anybody's post on the web.
Then I went and looked and saw MS has a beta for IE8, so I just dl'ed that but didn't install. Then I downloaded a fresh version of 7, saw it has an update, so dl'ed that, didn't install, just sitting there ready.
So then I try sys res for the first highlighted day, the 10th. Said it couldn't do it when it rebooted. Tried the next highlighted day sys res, the 9th, no luck, same thing. I see the update warning on my task bar and figure get it over with, dl and install Svc Pack 3 which I did, seemed to go smoothly, was dragging me feet on that because of what happened with Svc Pack 2 for so many.
Finally I call my isp. First tech got me to the point of looking for IE7 on my control panel add/remove progs. While hunting for it in the mess on there (some I don't know what they are and a lot of stuff doesn't do a clean uninstall) and the tech says he'll call me back. Wait 2 hours, nothing.
In the meantime I find IE7 in the add/remove programs but there is no button to remove like there is for most others. So I go to ms site and find instructions for uninstalling another way, started to print it out, that didn't work right w/my printer, so quit.
Then I thought my connect speeds seemed abysmal all of a sudden (were fine yesterday with IE7), so I go to mcafee and run a test. Now I call isp back and ask what that means. Plus told him ALL OVER AGAIN about my browser problem.
It took awhile, he made out a ticket, had me check my speeds at another site. 9.+ MBps, said that's bad. So he fills out a trouble ticket and will send out the phone co to check my lines plus some software to fine tune my sys.
So then I ran defrag (normal termination) which needed doing and after than chkdsk. Latter came out clean.
If I ever get this going right again, I'll wait and see what Firefox does with 3, no sense in messing with that after reading the OP, will wait until they fine tune that and will dl and install. One on the web said they tried that and neither would work with the same IE prob I'm having.
Didn't want to start a vanity so thought I'd throw it in here in case one of the techie FReepers has had the problem and knows the fix, if there is one. Otherwise, maybe it's time for a new computer, had this one coming up 7 years now, but why buy new when it's all still working but IE7?
If somebody knows somebody to ping, pls do so, but I'm weary of all this for one day, and it's hard to talk somebody through things try this try that via the web. I could take it to the shop I guess.
Ping!
I’m running Firefox 2 and 3 both. I’ve had no problems with 3, but many of my favorite add-ons are not compatible with 3 as of now, so I’ll hang on to FF2 for a while.
They still issue 2? I’ve been on 3 for months.
Firefox 3.0, which is currently at 3.0.4 and scheduled to update to 3.0.5 at the same time Mozilla ships the final Firefox 2.0 update, will continue to offer anti-phishing protection. Users of the older browser can update to the newer line by downloading Firefox 3.0, or accepting the automatic upgrade offer that will begin reaching them Thursday.Beltzner said that Mozilla won't offer any anti-phishing work-arounds for Firefox 2.0.0.19 users who want to keep using the older browser, but noted that there are similar tools available elsewhere. Alternatives to Firefox's built-in protection include the Netcraft Toolbar, WOT (Web of Trust) and FirePhish extensions, which can be downloaded from Mozilla's add-on site. [Note from poster: FirePhish is also outdated; read the reviews at the download site]