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Firefox 3.5: Anyone else give it a shot yet?
Topic Started: Jul 2 2009, 06:03 PM (872 Views)
Belpowerslave
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http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/video/firefox-3.5.html

After finally finding a theme I liked, and was still compatible with 3.5(my favorite Mac Fox II theme was killed with FF3, and then my next favorite, Aero Silver Fox, was killed with 3.5 so I went with Simple Green, a Netscape 9 skin compatible with 3.5) I went ahead and upgraded.

It really is an improvement. I can immediately tell it's much quick and less chunky than previous versions. One interesting thing, mentioned in the video above, is this "Open Source Video". Though I don't know that I fully understand it, it does sound nice....wish I could figure out a way to make use of it.

Another cool thing is the "Private Browsing" mode. Though I doubt anyone will use it for anything other than hiding the fact that they were browsing porn all night, it's still a pretty nice feature for the seriously paranoid internet user.

Anyway, just thought I'd share...for those of you debating the upgrade. It sucks ass how *every* upgrade seems to break, literally, thousands of themes...but I guess it's for the good of the browser...

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Have given FF 3.5 a shot and uninstalled it and went back to 3.0 due to a lot of my favorite/bookmarked sites not loading correctly. I actually went to IE for a while and spent quite a few minutes disabling about half the clutter that MS puts in the toolbars. I'm going to wait a while for FF3.5 and maybe they will get the bugs worked out.
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Hmmmm, that's odd. Just out of curiosity, what sites had broken? I was under the assumption that they were running the same Acid compliances that all versions of FF were using.

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I couldn't get my bank site to open ( Wachovia ), The Consumerist (or any of the Gawker sites), Kotaku, my hotmail site, and I even had some trouble on WAG. The sites will sometimes load correctly if I re-click them but after a few tries I give up and go back to IE. It gives me the message that firefox can not find the servers and sometimes they will load up on the second or third attempt.
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You might try uninstalling 3.0.11 and rebooting before installing 3.5. Your bookmarks will still be there as FF doesn't uninstall them unless you specifically tell it to.
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Yeah, I'm going to guess this is the best course of action as well as I haven't had *any* of those issues on WAG or any other site. I'm guessing there's some corrupted data floating around in your install. I would, however, manually back up your bookmarks just to be safe. If it asks what you want to uninstall, I'd do everything(after you manually save your bookmarks) and even clean out the Mozilla folder in your Application Data folder(this will ensure a clean uninstall).

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I think that I finally found the culprit that would not allow FF 3.5 to work correctly. I recently uninstalled/reinstalled 3.5 and all the sites that were not working are now working correctly. I system restored to when I installed the latest windows update ( a powerpoint update and a microsoft.net framework update) and every thing works great. I switched off the automatic download/install for windows update and have not yet allowed it to install the updates and FF works great. Do you think that this update could be the culprit?
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Well it doesn't work correctly yet. Would my recent upgrade to IE 8 possibly be causing a problem? It seems that I have a hard time even getting some sites to load. If the sites do come up they only give what I would call a listing of topic headers but no pictures or articles. Do you think FF3.5 would work better if I reinstalled it then uninstall IE 8 ? I am really missing the adblocker that FF has as now my favorite sites are full of ads that FF/adblocker removed.
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It's possible that MS NET Framework plugin(for FF) is causing some issues....or it may solve some issues. I would, always, update Windows to the point where there are no longer any updates to download...from there, uninstall FF and then download 3.5(after backing up your bookmarks and/or extensions, of course) and reinstall. If you're still getting odd issues, maybe run a Spyware check with Spybot or run a virus scan. I don't think either are the problem, but it wouldn't hurt. Let us know how it goes...

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I run both IE 8 and FF 3.5, and haven't experienced the issues you described, usually, if you're not getting all the content on a page, it may be a problem with the connection to your ISP not being good. But I don't know why that would only affect one of your browsers and only a couple of sites. There might be some customizations you made in an earlier version of FF that are being carried over to the new install that have changed how things works, but that's kind of a longshot
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It's working a lot better today then when I first installed it. I'm thinking Dark Crusaders opinion that it is ISP related is the problem. Otherwise I have no explanation of why it works like crap one day and performs like a champ today. Thanks for all of you guys help in the matter though. It may also have been my roomate plugging in his own phone without the dsl adapter the phone company gives you to install on your phones that use the same phone line as my pc.
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It is often dark when I'm out doing my Lone Crusading, maybe I should change my name.
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I laughed my fucking head off for about 5 minutes when I read your reply and realized what I typed for your name. But, still you and the BigSegaSaver are my super heroes. But I must tell you that all your suggestions have been for naught !!!. I have somehow managed to make FF3.5 not even be able to bring itself forth to my monitor at all. I think all the times I installed and reinstalled FF 3.5 that I have somehow corrupted it to the point that it doesn't even work at all. After the install and when it asks you if you want to open FF3.5 nothing happens. Nothing, nada, zero...IE8 still works like a champ. After it was working almost correctly I had to fix it myself one last time, so I decided to use my system restore powers and alter time and space to the day that I had first attempted to enter zone FF3.5. I knew that I, the Crimson King should have placed a call for help before even attempting such a journey on my own. Without the power and might of the Dark Crusader and BigSegaSaver the jouney was doomed from the start. All contact with zone FF3.5 has been lost.........
Edited by King Crimson, Jul 7 2009, 03:24 PM.
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I suggest what I think has already been suggested. Uninstall firefox, delete the file folder in the program files directory, and then defragment your harddrive. Then reboot your computer and reinstall firefox. You may want to make sure you've removed any potential viruses and malware with Spybot and AVG Free before reinstalling Firefox. Actually, I'd recommend that you uninstall any pre-existing antivirus programs and installing AVG Free at a minimum, updating to the latest version, and then scanning, before reinstalling Firefox. If this doesn't work, it's format and reinstall Windows time for you.

Also, don't neglect the importance of running Start->Run->SFC /scannow if you're using Windows XP.
Edited by sheath, Jul 7 2009, 09:33 PM.
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I would shy away from AVG Free. Though the 7 series was excellent, they've really fucked it up with 8/8.5. So much bloat that takes up way too much processing power. I couldn't take it anymore so I started looking around for alternatives and found one in Avast Home Edition. I *highly* recommend everyone give this one a shot. It's what AVG Free 7 was: Excellent.

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

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Where are you seeing AVG taking up processing power? On all the systems I've installed it on the CPU usage is 0%, when I'm done with the system I mean. AVG free has become a resource hog I can't see the effects. Now, while it's running a scan you can't play games, that's for sure.
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You are *very lucky* then.

It's the way it does that "on access" scan(or whatever they call it). Every time you do something, every time you download something, it scans it. You keep your Task Manager up and running in the corner while you're doing stuff, you'll see it.

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I think we got topics mixed up. I usually schedule AVG to scan during hours that I'm not going to be using the computer, like 3AM. With that said, I've noticed that AVG 8 will take hours to scan the whole computer when the harddrive isn't defragmented. I've also noticed that a lot of people don't defragment their harddrive often enough. With sufficient freespace to defragment the harddrive and a computer that isn't infected with malware, AVG 8 will scan as quickly as 7.5 would. I also just watched in Task Manager on both our Office PC and Laptop as I closed AVG, and it only freed up 4MB of RAM and made no effect on random CPU usage.

As for Game Booster, the only thing I can say is that it seems to eliminate random lag in PC games caused from various services starting and stopping.
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(sorry about that, I replied to this thread in another thread. I have split/combined the posts back here, where they should have been. When I go through the forums, I sit there and open a new tab for every thing I am replying to, so I think I just wasn't paying attention)

AVG 8, on my systems, sat there and scanned everything I did(like fucking McAfee does) which leads to everything running slower. On top of that, it would tie up 100% CPU usage during certain tasks. I never saw anything like that with 7.5...and I don't see anything like that now, with Avast. If you're not seeing any issues though, stick with it...I was just mentioning it for those looking for alternatives.

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OK, so back on topic, I gave Firefox 3.5 a shot... I still prefer the Seamonkey browser even though they're both mozilla-based, so I switched back.

They're almost identical, but Seamonkey seems to run a little better.
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