Which Firefox Version ????

[k27102]

Hi Antony. It's been a while since I sent a message out here but I would really appreciate your advice (others too) on my question. That is, which Firefox version do you think I may be happy with?

Sounds easy --- nope. I am using FF 3.0.10 (I know, old) and am quite happy with it. My computer is a 3.2g P4 with XP Pro and Update 3.

As I said, I am quite happy with this version and have very very few websites that won't work right. One of those, and the worst. is Google Maps. The page goes through it's loading and the map I want starts to appear. Then FF crashes with it's I'm sorry message. Some others, the layers don't line up but that's not a bad problem.

So back to which FF I should upgrade to, if any. I have my current version tweeked, tuned and set up just the way I like it and want all of that to carry over to the version that I may update to. Too many times. the buttons, the locations and the overall layout are changed in newer versions and that makes it hard to change what I am used to.

Last, can you install a newer version of FF as a separate program so that either FF version could be selected when I load a browser for my current use? Of course, only one or the other would be used. An example is that I can choose either my FF or IE8 from the desktop and can even have both running at the same time if I need to. That is how I use one of those layered pages that doesn't work quite right with FF.

Well, many thanks for reading, I'm looking forward to your thoughts. If you need any more information, just ask.

Thanks, Steve

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

[Antony]

If you are happy with Firefox 3.0.10, simply keep using it, just be careful on your browsing behaviour. Certain Mozilla guys would try to scary people that non-latest browser is not safe, however a careful browsing behaviour and good antivirus/firewall program.

If you want something a bit newer, you can try Firefox 3.6.19, which is not that much different to Firefox 3.0.10 in comparison.

And, I would suggest you give Google Chrome a try. It is always good to a have an alternative browser just in case.

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[k27102]

Well, that's what I've been doing. I like to keep things as simple as I can and all the addons can drive me nuts. As far as FF 19, I have read a lot of dissatisfaction from people about things that FF no longer does and that instead of fixing a problem, the option was taken out. Hence my concerns.

Do you have any ideas about the Google Maps crashing FF? It never used to with the FF version I am using. Google Earth works fine.

Thanks, Steve

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[Fulvio]

I have become more and more disenchanted with the so-called rapid updates. I could care less about this nonsense,nor the Google nonsense, which Firefox wants to imitate. I happen to be using Chrome, which an update as I was surfing, and would "relaunch' when I asked for it, and is punishing me, by refusing to capitalize most names (I had to go to make changes for each capital letter). v.3.6.19 is not for PCs, only for MACs. So, if a PC user updated from 3.6.18, it is a mistake. So, go back to .18, if you were using it.
Anyway, all the comments received by my post are irrelevant. What I am saying is that Mozilla Firefox is placing us in the beta downloads, and even fooled me in updating from FF5 to FF6whatever. I want to know what whatever is, somewhere between b4 and b6, I think, and leave alone with the final version, whichever it is, unless I want to mess with alphas or betas.
For all it is worth, I sent a negative feedback to whoever is messing up a decent browser.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14.0.803.0 Safari/535.1

[Amrad]

Hello Fulvio,

For all it is worth, I sent a negative feedback to whoever is messing up a decent browser.

To where did you send the feedback, if you don't mind me asking?

Regards,

Dave.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110706 SeaMonkey/2.2

[Antony]

Well, that's what I've been doing. I like to keep things as simple as I can and all the addons can drive me nuts. As far as FF 19, I have read a lot of dissatisfaction from people about things that FF no longer does and that instead of fixing a problem, the option was taken out. Hence my concerns.

If you want to stay on Firefox 3.0.x branch, you can try to get Firefox 3.0.18 or Firefox 3.0.19, except I doubt it would be easy to get as Mozilla is trying to push everybody to their latest version.
And Firefox 3.6.19 is still available from Mozilla.com ( http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html ).
There isn't that much difference between 3.6.x and 3.0.x, comparing to 4.0 or even 5.0.x.

Like I said before, you don't have to upgrade as long as you have good antivirus and good firewall programmes on your computer, and be careful with your browsing activities.

Do you have any ideas about the Google Maps crashing FF? It never used to with the FF version I am using. Google Earth works fine.

Google Maps works fine on my Firefox 3.6.19 (Mac). Try to make sure you did not disable any JavaScript, stylesheets etc and perhaps clear all the caches and see if it works.

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[Fulvio]

Hello Fulvio,

For all it is worth, I sent a negative feedback to whoever is messing up a decent browser.

To where did you send the feedback, if you don't mind me asking?

Regards,

Dave.

If you have FF6, there is a place to send feedbacks Help|Submit Feedback. Unfortunately, the number of characters allowed is minimal. So, more or less, I to tell them that it stinks.

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[Amrad]

Hello Fulvio,

If you have FF6, there is a place to send feedbacks Help|Submit Feedback.

Thanks for that information. I don't have any version of Firefox installed!

Regards,

Dave.

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