Firefox 3 giving me hassle

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Firefox 3 giving me hassle

#1 Post by Fausto » Fri Sep 05, 2008 4:48 pm

I was always a happy Firefox browser until recently. Since the upgrade(?) to 3 it's been giving me endless little niggles.

eg - I had the Met Office plug in type thing with an icon down in the bottom right corner. It's just disappeared.

If I shut FF down I can't reopen it without a restart of XP. Seems it's not closing down properly as when I tried to uninstall FF I was prompted to close it first even though I had already done so.

Clicking on thumbnails no longer opens up a new window with the bigger picture.

I reInstalled it and within minutes the Met Office thing was gone again and pics still won't open.

Anyone else having problems. I'm thinking of moving to another browser.

Oh, and the new bookmarking system is crap (or is that just me?) :smt009
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#2 Post by Samray » Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:00 pm

Had a few hiccups and yet again switched back to an IE derivative that always seems to come up trumps. http://www.crazybrowser.com/
Worth a trial I'd suggest.
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#3 Post by Fausto » Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:12 pm

Well I'm now using Opera 9.5 to see how that goes but I'll take a look at crazy if necessary. Thanks Samray.
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#4 Post by FlyingKiwi » Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:17 pm

I have Firefox 3, and the Met plug in and all working well.
Not much help to you though :smt017
I seem to recall Google launched a browser this morning called CHROME. Don't know anything about it.
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#5 Post by Samray » Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:30 pm

Tried Chrome out yesterday. Not at all impressed tbh. Seemed particularly clumsy.
They also tried to con people into giving em copyright on anything lodged there until uproar got the small print changed.
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#6 Post by Aladinsaneuk » Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:46 pm

believe chrome was hacked within 3 hours of release.....


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#7 Post by Kwackerz » Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:05 pm

Aye D/loaded, tried, uninstalled Chrome.

It's like a Harley Davidson of the Browser World.. Clumsy and basic.. Probably why they called it Chrome..
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#8 Post by Gio » Sat Sep 06, 2008 1:01 pm

Well I'm on ff3 and have no problems at all with it :smt003

The met thingy is in the bottom right hand corner as well :smt001
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#9 Post by Fausto » Sat Sep 06, 2008 5:16 pm

Gio wrote:Well I'm on ff3 and have no problems at all with it :smt003

The met thingy is in the bottom right hand corner as well :smt001
yep, when all is working smoothly that's where I had it. But then it disappears and it all goes to shit.

Anyway, am liking Opera quite a bit so sod FF. :smt019
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#10 Post by Gio » Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:29 pm

Fausto wrote:
Gio wrote:Well I'm on ff3 and have no problems at all with it :smt003

The met thingy is in the bottom right hand corner as well :smt001
yep, when all is working smoothly that's where I had it. But then it disappears and it all goes to shit.

Anyway, am liking Opera quite a bit so sod FF. :smt019



Mine never disappears , as for Opera, well it works but I'd not jump up and down about it.
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#11 Post by Samray » Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:49 am

Google Chrome 'keylogger' found in IE8
It was hardly hidden but probably worth a mention.
http://www.computerworlduk.com/technolo ... wsid=10939
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