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Mozilla Firefox (official thread)

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3074326;1896873; said:
Since downloading the new Firefox, my computer has locked up three times and load times are about half as fast. :(
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I saw something about ZoneAlarm's ForceField and Spybot's TeaTimer not working well with FF4. My issue turned out to be something else (darned WD Passport software), but I switched to Microsoft Security Essentials for virus scanning anyway.

Chrome wasn't doing things I needed when I tried using it exclusively a few months back, mostly due to extensions that didn't exist yet. I should check those out again, but there are plenty of other things higher up the to-do list. Now, I'll sometimes us it for pure surfing at top speeds, but switch back to FF for work.
 
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Deety;1896898; said:
I saw something about ZoneAlarm's ForceField and Spybot's TeaTimer not working well with FF4. My issue turned out to be something else (darned WD Passport software), but I switched to Microsoft Security Essentials for virus scanning anyway.

Chrome wasn't doing things I needed when I tried using it exclusively a few months back, mostly due to extensions that didn't exist yet. I should check those out again, but there are plenty of other things higher up the to-do list. Now, I'll sometimes us it for pure surfing at top speeds, but switch back to FF for work.
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I've had other issues with it as well. Looks like coding errors on websites, but it happens on every site I go to. For example, sometimes I can't click the latest post threads at the top of the forum page at BP. And on another forum I go to some posts will just randomly be in different colors (not text, the entire post box). Not sure what's going on with it.

I'm not running Spybot or ZoneAlarm, either. Oh well. The load times have gotten better for the most part. ESPN is still terribly slow for some reason.
 
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upgraded to 4 yesterday. i've maximized screen real estate, but i've noticed no increase in performance. chrome is still faster, though that is in part due to running so many firefox extensions and no chrome extensions. i'd go to chrome full-time, but firefox is too personalized.

scout is giving me problems now. for the last hour, clicking on links has taken me nowhere. clearing scout's cookies does nothing. i'll clear all of the cookies in a bit.
 
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On IE 9 right now. I'm impressed.

Even though I'm a long-time F/OSS & Linux guy and ran Firefox exclusively for years, I've switched to Windows 7 predominantly on my desktops since I have to share the PCs with a growing family and have to support it at work, so I've drifted back to the Microsoft fold a bit.

Between IE 9 and Office 2010 (Outlook finally properly supports IMAP and threaded conversations, yay!) I have to say Microsoft appears to have their heads out of their asses.

IE9 is fast and minimalist. Those are priorities 1 & 2 on my list. Also like that it estimates how much an add-on drags down page loads, and recommends which ones to turn off. I didn't even realize I had half this shit installed under IE8.
 
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Upgraded but regretting it...
After 4 tabs I'm having big problems... and I need LOTS...
Numerous extensions aren't compatible with 4.0

Stupid question... in 4.0 where is the REFRESH button?

Never experimented with chrome but maybe I need to
 
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NJ-Buckeye;1897791; said:
Stupid question... in 4.0 where is the REFRESH button?
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it should be in the superbar. i don't have a refresh button by choice. with tab mix plus, which is a must-have add-on, i double-click on a tab if i want that page to reload. also, i have toolbar buttons, which allows me to customize all of the bars in the way that i want them.
 
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