Firefox 3.6.25 to 9.0.1?

[veremchuka]

I was prompted to upgrade maybe 6 weeks ago so I did but immediately I thought a few 'things' looked a little different. Specifically I thought that the bookmarks and organizing them was different, I wasn't sure how to manage them as I had been and so I figured other things were going to be different too. So I felt that 9.0.1 was another upgrade that requires figuring out how to do what I used to know how to do and where to find things and I wanted no part of it, I am tired of having to constantly relearn what I used to know because thing are 'improved'.

I keep getting prompted about upgrading and I'm declining but I can't stay at 3.6.25 forever. Anyone find that the 9.0.1 version is different and things are not found or done like they were in 3.6.25 or is it the same? If different is it minor or are there a lot of differences? I swear some things did appear to be different and I was in no mood to deal with it.

[REWahoo]

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Originally Posted by veremchuka I was prompted to upgrade maybe 6 weeks ago so I did but immediately I thought a few 'things' looked a little different. Specifically I thought that the bookmarks and organizing them was different, I wasn't sure how to manage them as I had been and so I figured other things were going to be different too. So I felt that 9.0.1 was another upgrade that requires figuring out how to do what I used to know how to do and where to find things and I wanted no part of it, I am tired of having to constantly relearn what I used to know because thing are 'improved'. I keep getting prompted about upgrading and I'm declining but I can't stay at 3.6.25 forever. Anyone find that the 9.0.1 version is different and things are not found or done like they were in 3.6.25 or is it the same? If different is it minor or are there a lot of differences? I swear some things did appear to be different and I was in no mood to deal with it.

Are you aware of the first warning signs of curmudeonhood?

[Coach]

I haven't noticed much in the way of changes at 9.0.1 -- but it seems like release cycles are getting so short that it's hard to keep track of what happened when.

Coach

[TromboneAl]

I was annoyed by some things after upgrading, and I think I had to make a change in where the tabs were located, but in general things were OK.

I generally resist upgrades. On my iPod there are about 20 apps that want me to upgrade. I upgraded imdb, and the only diff is slower response time and more ads.

[Nords]

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Originally Posted by veremchuka I keep getting prompted about upgrading and I'm declining but I can't stay at 3.6.25 forever. I swear some things did appear to be different and I was in no mood to deal with it.

I upgraded from that version of FF to Chrome "16.0.912.75 m"

There are some differences, but none that would invalidate my curmudgeon certificate. It also seems to play well with my other Google account software.

Yeah, I know Google changed their privacy policy yesterday and we can't opt out. I've gotten over it. I don't care.

[MichaelB]

I installed the Firefox upgrade to resolve memory issues that did not resolve. Performance is still improved and the look and feel has taken a few days to get used to. No other problems, though.

[justplainbll]

Took a bit of fiddling to get my bookmarks toolbar to display.

[Chuckanut]

Ignore upgrades at your own risk. Often they patch known security holes that are being exploited. No upgrade means your online security is at risk. My 2 cents.

[tightasadrum]

I installed Firefox 9.xx onto my iMac. Now, every time I click on a link within an email, the Firefox startup page opens, but not the link. This happens even within Safari on a hot link. Can't figure out how to correct it other than deleting Firefox completely. Anyone else see this?

To the original message, I haven't found the Firefox upgrade difficult to use. I like it better.

[Major Tom]

I had an annoying bit of malware recently that was redirecting my copy of Firefox to a 404 error page on Hotspot Shield containing ads. I have never installed or used Hotspot Shield. It was getting annoying, as sometimes I'd be on a page that I really wanted to stay on, and the next thing I knew, I'd be staring at a different page with ads. Anti-virus and malware applications didn't solve the problem, so I decided to wipe the system drive and do a complete clean re-install of XP. On re-installing some of my applications, I've ended up with newer versions and had to spend quite a bit of time relearning them - and this was only after 2 or 3 years. I'm wondering how much work it would take to play catch-up if I were to decide not to upgrade anything for much longer?

Even the die-hards are pretty much forced to upgrade at some point, but what if you went to live in the woods for, say, 15 years, then came back into civilization. How tough would the adjustment be? Or imagine if lifespans increased to the point where we all stuck around for 150 years. Imagine how grumpy some of us would be with all the change we'd have to deal with

For most of yesterday, I was seriously wishing that I could live without my computer and thinking about how dependant on them and their associated networks we have become, but as a society, we do almost everything on them. There is no going back now.

[tightasadrum]

This is almost depressing.

[davemartin88]

I thought it was going to be worse than it turned out to be, does that mean I'm a pessimist? A few changes to appearance and a couple of add ons that I wasn't really using didn't work- can't even remember which ones now.

[REWahoo]

My only complaint about 9.0.1 is the 'translucent' menu toolbar. If your wallpaper on your desktop has a dark background the menu items don't have sufficient contrast to be easily read.

[Major Tom]

Translucent menu toolbar? Where? That sounds cool! I have 9.0.1 and my toolbar is as opaque as they come - unless I'm doing something wrong.

[REWahoo]

Firefox menu toolbar shown with gray and light blue backgrounds. The gray one is unreadable - at least for me.

[Major Tom]

Hmmm.....I'm not getting this, but then I just installed it with all the defaults and haven't played around with settings at all. This is what mine looks like:

[REWahoo]

I found a fix: Control Panel > Display > Personalization > Window Color. Uncheck "enable transparency".

[Lsbcal]

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Originally Posted by Chuckanut Ignore upgrades at your own risk. Often they patch known security holes that are being exploited. No upgrade means your online security is at risk. My 2 cents.

Totally agree with this.

I run Secunia PSI (free) and it checks all software to make sure you are up to date. Why take unnecessary risks? It does take a little time, but you hopefully are ER'd and have the time.

[Bikerdude]

I used FF for many years and just recently switched to Chrome. Much faster, especially with streaming video content.

[Lsbcal]

What I like about FF is the Adblock Add-on. Maybe Chrome has this but IE does not, I think.