Is it just me or is Firefox 2 worse than Firefox 1? In the original I could surf the web while downloading a torrent with ease, now It's almost impossible.
Firefox 2 < Firefox 1
- Thread starter Oxaqata
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Me too. I can't get into my bookmark folders without going into "organize bookmarks" and double clicking the links in the folder
Definitely not just you. After the upgrade to FF2, webpages suddenly stop loading if I surf long enough...I've gotten acustom to using the IE Tab extension...which alows me to switch the rendering engine...basically the pages load through IE but are view in my FF window, which is still annoying anyway.
curious, perhaps some of these problems you people experience, have been fixed in the newer builds of FF2.
personally, I'm not using them, but I was using them with FF1.5.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=305281
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8.0/
personally, I'm not using them, but I was using them with FF1.5.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=305281
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8.0/
hahah nova upon trying to view your links encountered the problem on all 3 of them. Maybe I should downagrade or goto opera
I dont know about you, but Firefox works for me. Works great. Never have a problem, its fast and i developed a pattern of 'how' i surf with my F.Fox.
Ive been using FF for along time, and its only gotten better. Now many are jumping ship to the new IE7, cause it acts and operated just like F.Fox, but with the microsoft image.
Maybe some of your setting are messed up. Try uninstalling it and reinstalling a new'ly download copy. Then go grabs some extentions, I like the new weather one, it doesnt take up screen realistate.
Ive been using FF for along time, and its only gotten better. Now many are jumping ship to the new IE7, cause it acts and operated just like F.Fox, but with the microsoft image.
Maybe some of your setting are messed up. Try uninstalling it and reinstalling a new'ly download copy. Then go grabs some extentions, I like the new weather one, it doesnt take up screen realistate.
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Lifer
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Alot of the problems mentioned sound like problems I avoided by stiking with 1.5.
IF IT AIN'T BROKE ... DO NOT FIX IT
Why people that know so much about computers ignore this word of wisdom is beyond me. Move up to 2.xxx when something in 1.5 doesn't work that you need.
If your computer is stable and meets your need, don't F with it!
IF IT AIN'T BROKE ... DO NOT FIX IT
Why people that know so much about computers ignore this word of wisdom is beyond me. Move up to 2.xxx when something in 1.5 doesn't work that you need.
If your computer is stable and meets your need, don't F with it!
Seems very unlikely the browser is causing this problem. Have you run a network anyliser to see what's going on?
No problems for me. Then again I make sure I know how to use torrents and how to properly install new browsers. I don't think you're giving us enough information here to help out...
No problems for me, on a low end laptop or a high end desktop. Then again, was running Vista on both, or sometimes Linux on the laptop.
Now then, my friend's midrange laptop doesn't like firefox 2 for some reason. It's probably a memory management issue, unlike Microsoft and Opera, Firefox likes to use entirely their own code bases, and they have a tendency to get a little bloated. My guess is that firefox 2.0 just uses a bit too many resources of its own and xp has a bit of trouble coping with it (whereas opera and IE integrate into the os much better), and vista and linux do a better job at memory management. A higher specced system would probably help too.
Now then, my friend's midrange laptop doesn't like firefox 2 for some reason. It's probably a memory management issue, unlike Microsoft and Opera, Firefox likes to use entirely their own code bases, and they have a tendency to get a little bloated. My guess is that firefox 2.0 just uses a bit too many resources of its own and xp has a bit of trouble coping with it (whereas opera and IE integrate into the os much better), and vista and linux do a better job at memory management. A higher specced system would probably help too.
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Those linked pages rendered fine for me. I'm guessing there's a corruption in your profile. I would suggest doing an uninstall of FF, making sure it's gone from \Program Files and your \Docs & Settings\Profile\etc then doing a reinstall.
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Lifer
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Yes, there's no reason to upgrade to Firefox 2
The inline spell check and session restore are reason alone for me but there's a bunch of others listed in that link. I think the OP has a corrupt profile as many of us are running Firefox 2 without issue. I'm using it in Linux (Ubuntu) and WinXP - both without issue.
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