I've given up on Mozilla Firefox

14 years ago

They do have a lot of stuff on their toolbar. I don't like all of them but just ignore them.

I think that you can customize it and delete what ever you don't like but I am not 100% sure.

I still like Firefox over Internet Explorer.

Work with what ever you like.

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John Rogers

14 years ago

Try Chrome. I switched well over a year ago, maybe two, and haven't regretted it for one second.

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phort6n2 14 years ago

Originally Posted by John Rogers

Try Chrome. I switched well over a year ago, maybe two, and haven't regretted it for one second.

I did the same thing after trying to like Firefox for years. Chrome wins hands down.
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Arunabh Singh

14 years ago

I use Opera and absolutely love it. Maybe it is time you gave it a try.

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angshuy2k

14 years ago

Lol, I know the feelings. I think now its time for us to make a new browser system which is for us and will be having no tool bar what so ever and completely free from rubbish.

Best of luck with the venture. I am still using firefox, IE and Chrome all add on disabled and well as DNT set out for the work.

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Originally Posted by affenpinscher

Why do they allow all the garbage to get attached to their toolbar? I've had enough of Babylon and Ask, especially as the latter makes it very difficult to delete; it's not in the Control Panel programs. I've deleted Firefox and won't be going back.

IE doesn't put a user through this, and I don't understand why Firefox allows it or even why it's legal for Ask to hijack my search function.

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agmccall

14 years ago

Babylon is a redirect virus that you probably got here. It is where I got mine. It is not Firefox as this has infected all my browsers. It is almost impossible to get rid of

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Lloyd Buchinski

14 years ago

Originally Posted by agmccall

Babylon is a redirect virus that you probably got here. It is where I got mine. It is not Firefox as this has infected all my browsers. It is almost impossible to get rid of

I agree. This has nothing to do with ff. I've been using it for years and have never had either of those. Typically people get them when they aren't careful about what they download and open.

It isn't always easy to tell. I know someone who had about a dozen tool bars that he did not install. It was a bit of work cleaning them up for him.

If anything is difficult to get rid of, uninstall ff, download it again and reinstall it. If you use the xmarks add on, it will save all your bookmarks online and you can restore them after. Or you could export them and then import after the reinstall.

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aceshigh888

14 years ago

I hear you. I'd go to Chrome if I could figure out how to make it look and act like firefox. Firefox has gotten unstable or something. I don't know why?

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Sweely99

14 years ago

Originally Posted by affenpinscher

Why do they allow all the garbage to get attached to their toolbar? I've had enough of Babylon and Ask, especially as the latter makes it very difficult to delete...

The things attached in the toolbar are called plugins and they can be deactivated in the settings. I'm talking about both Babylon and Ask.

Firefox is only as good as its user. You simply do not know how to disable plugins.

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professorrosado

14 years ago

I have nothing but what I want on FireFox. You obviously (as most people do) blame others for their own oversight. Firefox is best for web techs who know how to use its features. For casual browsing use Chrome.

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14 years ago

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Saintsfan40

14 years ago

I used to love firefox back in the day. But in the past couple years, ff would always freeze and take forever to load and never could understand why. I switched to Chrome, works much better.

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Sweely99

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Saintsfan40

I used to love firefox back in the day. But in the past couple years, ff would always freeze and take forever to load and never could understand why. I switched to Chrome, works much better.

Tests have shown that Chrome is faster than FF, but OP definitely shouldn't give up on FF completely

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Saintsfan40 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Sweely99

Tests have shown that Chrome is faster than FF, but OP definitely shouldn't give up on FF completely

Lol. FF Still beats Internet Explorer anyday I still have FF as a secondary to chrome.
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ronorr

14 years ago

I find after years that firefox is so much slower than chrome. I just use chrome other than adobe flash issues chrome can work pretty well it does crash sometimes.

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Chris Donne

14 years ago

Try google chrome, its very very good

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jakejoh10 14 years ago

Like others have said, I don't have anything on my toolbar that I don't want. I haven't really had any problems with it.

That being said, I have actually been trying Maxthon Cloud Browser, and I'm very impressed thus far.

It's all about preference; try Chrome if you don't like FF, and try something else if you don't like Chrome. There are plenty of options out there .

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Robert Montgomery

14 years ago

Go with Chrome I made the switch a while back when Mozilla seemed to be releasing what seemed like an update every week, it feels very heavy compared with Chrome.

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fixie

14 years ago

Chrome is getting bulkier everyday but it is still by far the best browser for me. For fastest performance I usually use Opera.

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jamescanz

14 years ago

You could always give Maxthon Cloud Browser | For All Devices | Free Download a shot

I use that, firefox, and chrome.

Still prefer FF the best, but it's a great alternative

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clintmyers

14 years ago

Yeah, I used to like Firefox a lot until I started having a LOT of problems with it. I tried Chrome for a while but I had some troubles with it. Now I am back to Internet Explorer and it seems to be decent.

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beatstockpromoters

14 years ago

I started using Pale moon which is a slimmed down, open source version of Firefox. Its fully updated and it has worked real well so far. There's also Chromium which is a slimmed down, open source version of Chrome. Chromium may even be faster than Pale moon but I like that Pale moon is based on Firefox code.

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Daniel Evans

14 years ago

Originally Posted by affenpinscher

I don't understand why Firefox allows it or even why it's legal for Ask to hijack my search function.

I assume that somewhere along the line you've given permission for this without knowing it.

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minimalseo

14 years ago

I have switched over to Chrome too. It is slicker. I still use Firefox mostly to check how it loads a site or page. However I never had neither Ask or Babylon - nor do you need to have anything you don't need - just disable them.

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KingOfContentMarketing

14 years ago

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/936407

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tagiscom 14 years ago

Yep, use FF, as the main one, and IE as a way to see if my pages don't look like a dogs-breakfast!

Although recently l updated FF, on my W7 Laptop; not a prob, there, as Norton immediately gave me a patch to fix the imcompatable auto-signup feature!

Then l tried it on my PC with XP, and no matter how many times l updated it wouldn't appear, (Norton patch). Then after trying to use system restore to get over the update to FF, that canned the Norton autosignup feature! And failing, l have given up on updating that PC, (which l hardly use).

Someday Norton should send an update to fix this, but l am beginning to think that maybe they are making a fast buck with Norton or Microsoft. Or intentionally causing this crap with older OS, so they will sell more W7 or W8?

You have to wonder why they would stuff up such a useful Norton App?

Oh, well, just another fun day with Windows and FF!

Shane

PS, Warning, if you have an old OS, use Norton and haven't updated FF, DON'T, once you have updated, you will never be able to reinstall the previous version. And either have to contact Norton or put up with it!!!
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SandraLarkin

Banned 14 years ago

No idea what happened to FF. Use chrome a main browser, FF second, Opera third, and IE when I need a fourth for whatever reason.

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Silas Hart

14 years ago

If I might make a suggestion in regards to a change in browsers. I have been very happy with Maxthon. Very sleek and user friendly and over all simple and fast.

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asghar

14 years ago

Well Firefox still one of my best browser after Chrome, I think you can do more experiments with Firefox then any other Browser

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laurencewins

14 years ago

Can some one please tell me the main differences between Firefox and Chrome?? I am considering a change but don't want to if it is a waste of time.

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Daniel Evans 14 years ago

I've always struggled to think of any valid reason to switch to Chrome and I have experimented with it.
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Frank Donovan

14 years ago

Originally Posted by laurencewins

Can some one please tell me the main differences between Firefox and Chrome?? I am considering a change but don't want to if it is a waste of time.

Firefox is a competent browser with a wide range of plugins that, for me, make it more useful than IE, for example. Just be sure not to install new versions automatically on their release. Wait until the bugs have been identified and cleared.

Chrome is essentially spyware, designed to report all your browsing activity back to Google HQ. That's all you need to know.

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tagiscom

14 years ago

Firefox is a competent browser with a wide range of plugins that, for me, make it more useful than IE, for example. Just be sure not to install new versions automatically on their release. Wait until the bugs have been identified and cleared.

Frank

Yep, good advise, but unfortunately FF will still put pop ups, on your screen until you allow an update!

After the hassles l had with XP and FF, l pulled the plug, so it couldn't update again. I didn't want to waste another hour, updating Norton and restarting, another 9 times! But still get annoying pop up, reminders now and then!

Chrome is essentially spyware, designed to report all your browsing activity back to Google HQ. That's all you need to know.

Yep, l have heard that Google plus, does the same thing! Enough said!

Shane

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gareth

14 years ago

I prefer firefox except it gets slower & slower until you have to wipe everything & start again

chrome is my browser only because of this - but chrome hogs resources with too many tabs - like 20 or so

IE well - only when I have to

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twisters

14 years ago

Mozilla Firefox is better than other browser. Download capacity is awesome and its toolbar is exceptional & Options is very active. I like it very much.

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yogee2

14 years ago

I have a babylon toolbar installed on my firefox (don't know how to remove it) and I'm sick and tired of it. I will try Chrome this week.

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tagiscom 14 years ago

Yep, got FF working with Norton identity safe, and XP; you just have to update Norton 9 times and then go to tools, and then Apps, to activate it!

IE isn't much better, l had serious issues with signing into Hostgator Cpanel, with javascript clogging up the works. But l have FF, back again, so l won't waste any more valuable time with this crap!

Shane
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gabkwong

14 years ago

You can set those toolbars like 'ask.com' to hide themselves by clicking 'view' then 'toolbar' and select which one you wanted.

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Lambert Klein

14 years ago

Yeah, Ask is the hardest one to get rid of. Even Java updates wants to install it.

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rain21

14 years ago

I've given up firefox long time before. I like google chrome, so far the best browser for me. Simple and fast

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Sumit Menon

14 years ago

Originally Posted by laurencewins

Can some one please tell me the main differences between Firefox and Chrome?? I am considering a change but don't want to if it is a waste of time.

There is no particular reason to switch to either. People say Chrome is faster but I've never noticed any substantial difference (and I'm on a 512KB connection). I've heard that Chrome hogs resources, but never experienced that. Chrome starts up faster than Firefox though but the last time I used Chrome, it used to crash much. So, I switched to Firefox.

So, unless you have issues with the browser you are currently using, don't switch.

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tagiscom 14 years ago

Yep, just updated FF, they clearly know about the issue and have rectified the situation so much that Norton now has extra bells and whistles!

Hopefully they have fixed the flash issue as well!

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