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Technical Help & Discussion => Broadband, Networking, PC Security, Internet & ISPs => Topic started by: Delgado on July 22, 2008, 08:28
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Has anyone noticed that since the recent update of Firefox 3, the browser is not as stable as before?
When I first installed Firefox 3 it was perfect, not a problem anywhere, but since updating, it now sometimes dosent load a page properly or the page just stays blank. After refreshing the page appears. This is beginning to annoy me!
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Can't say I use it enough to notice, as I primarily use SeaMonkey, but I have had the occasional blank page with that too.
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I also installed Service Pack 3-wondering if this could affect things?
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I had nothing but problems with it
Pages wouldnt load it would freeze up
It was so slow to load
I finally gave up and went back to 2.0
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Yes, I've noticed this too. Facebook and UKCampsite struggle to load at times and it has only been since the update. I usually have ALL automatic updating disabled on my computer, but I must have overlooked Firefox when I installed 3.0. Teach me to be more careful in future.
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You can go back to an older version, Dave, click here (http://www.filehippo.com/download_firefox/). :)
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Glad Im not the only one with problems then.
Simon-Dont know much about Sea Monkey,does it contain Firefox, as well as a Mail Client then?
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Basically, it's the Firefox engine, with a different body, DG. The latest version seems to be spot on, and runs significantly faster than the last one. One thing some might find useful is that it doesn't auto-update, but checks periodically, and then asks if you want to update if one is available. Also, many (but not all) Firefox add-ons work on SeaMonkey. One thing I would say is, the default theme is horrid, but Modern is also pre-installed, is much nicer, and is available simply by clicking View > Apply Theme. It's also much quicker at starting up than any version of Firefox I have used.
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
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good idea those sites with old versions on
have you tried this (http://www.oldversion.com/) and this (http://www.oldapps.com/)
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Brilliant, Baz. I use OldVersion.com quite often. :)
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http://www.avantbrowser.com/
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LEFT IN THE PAST (http://www.avantbrowser.com/)
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:pmsl:
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Thanks, Simon. I can live with it for the moment as It's only those two sites I'm having problems with, but if I find it becomes annoying I might well roll back. :)
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If anyone has any addons they can't install because they haven't been updated yet, ask me and I'll edit the version stamp to be installable on FF3.
One thing I would say is, the default theme is horrid, but Modern is also pre-installed, is much nicer, and is available simply by clicking View > Apply Theme. It's also much quicker at starting up than any version of Firefox I have used.
Yeah, I had no problems with the FF2 skin, but when i moved up to FF3 the first addon to be installled was a new theme. Afterwards, I disabled the "awesome" bar.
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You can go back to an older version, Dave, click here (http://www.filehippo.com/download_firefox/). :)
Thanks Simon
But I have all my older versions on an extra hard drive
For some reason I keep all my older downloads lol
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Me too, Dave. I got the impression Chorley Dave might have been stuck. :)