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Now if they could only get the pop-up blocker to work...
“From a safety and security perspective, Mozilla is taking aim at third party add-ons with Firefox 8. On startup, Firefox 8 provides users with a menu with third party plugins disabled, offering users the choice of re-enabling them if they so choose.”
Love this feature! Had some things installed by third parties and had some stuff I no longer use. Clicked on the ones I wanted to remain and the rest went away. Notice my internet is now faster without the junk. Thanks firefox!
Had to revert to a former version to get around the annoying page with "click to disable automatic updates to view page" when opening my email.
With Firefox recent memory hogging, I almost switched to Chrome (which I was very hesitant to do), but we’ll see how 8 does here.
FF8 is out. FF10 is in beta testing.
I had to put FF5 back on my main XP machine, because FF7, which was supposed to correct part of the ongoing memory-hogging FF has become notorious for, didn’t. At one point, with only one window/tab open (and it blank), FF7 consumed over 400k of memory.
I did upgrade my Win7 laptop with FF7. The laptop has enough memory that memory consumption has not become a problem.
The big problem I find with the rapid release is trying to keep extensions/add-ons updated. I lost some that never made the FF upgrade beyond 3.6 series. I lost a couple of others that got shelved between FF5 and FF7.
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FF needs to rethink their rapid release philosophy. It may be cute and fine for developers, but for productivity users, new releases are more trouble than they are worth.
Sharp explained that in Firefox 8, add-ons can still be installed by third party programs, as in previous versions of Firefox.
“What’s new in this next release of Firefox is that Firefox will notify users when this happens and get explicit permission before enabling them,”
When did microsoft take over FF development?
And FF 9 will come out next month-Dec. 20. Followed by FF 10 in Jan. But FF 11 is the one to watch for. Many new things. Silent update being among them.
It’s really a pain to have Mozilla issue new versions so fast; better if they just kept the same integer and changed the number to the right of the decimal point.
I’m still using FF 3.6 and will continue to do so until Mozilla stops with security updates. Reason is that developers don’t update their plugins as fast as new versions come out so they don’t work. It’s a real pain to abandon them or try to get them to work by doing so suggested work-arounds.
Had to uninstall Firefox. It was getting hung up, etc...
Too many issues and not sure if it was my Add ons?
At any rate using primarly the latest Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. Waiting for Firefox to resolve their issues.
The new IE 9.0 64 bit additon is pretty good. Takes a little bit to get use to. It is fast and a big improvement from the past.