Grumpy Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 Last week I had all sorts of troubles trying to navigate to and around my favourite computer sites, especially SNA. My first thoughts were a malaware problem or virus. I then realised that Mozilla Firefox had downloaded the latest update taking me to Firefox 27. I deleted all the latest Firefox 27 things and re-installed Firefox 26 again and all was back to normal Then it downloaded bloody 27 again so I had to disable all my update schedules - got rid of 27 and again re-installed 26. All is fine now except I keep getting prompts to download 27 because "it is very important that I do so". Anyone else have this trouble recently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxon Hall Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 Yes I had to defect to Chrome for a day as Firefox would not load a lot of sites properly. It has now been back to normal for the last 2 days. I run Firefox 27.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eman Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 Where do I find which version I have ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 Where do I find which version I have ? Click on "About Firefox " and it will show you the version you have running Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronal Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 I have a related problem - when using the 'reply' button to reply to emails they often arrive without text. I contacted my ISP (iinet) who told me that 'Firefox doesn't like our coding' and advised me to switch to IE. Problem - I dislike IE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freedom Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 I've got Firefox 27.0.1 Didn't even know I had it until now! Must have been a seemless update on my lappy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Posted February 26, 2014 Author Share Posted February 26, 2014 Click on "About Firefox " and it will show you the version you have running When I did that last week it downloads 27 automatically Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugehair Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 Is this the one? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/985573 I dunt have a prob though with 27.0.1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 Is this the one? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/985573 I dunt have a prob though with 27.0.1. No problems here either and so much better than IE it isn't funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luc Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 Yes I had to defect to Chrome for a day as Firefox would not load a lot of sites properly. It has now been back to normal for the last 2 days. I run Firefox 27.0.1 A, you might like to have a look at the link I'm about to pop up Where do I find which version I have ? Eman, you too might like the link I'm about to pop up Click on "About Firefox " and it will show you the version you have running Mr Walker, not sure wheter you'd need this but I find it an absolute ripper when i want to find out exactly...I mean exactly what's on my PC. Download this free application. I've had it for probaly 7 or 8 years and when I'm not sure what I've got running on my PC both in hardware and software and licences and versions of what ever...well I just click on the shortcut on my desktop. Have a look if you will, it serves no other purpose really than letting lazy buggers know exactly what updates they have, what drivers they have (for everything mind you!) and a ream of other things. Belarc Advisor it's called...have a squiz here>>>Help for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 (edited) Cheers for that Luc, but I use a Mac so it's only 2 clicks to find out exactly anything I need to know about, or do with, Firefox Edited February 26, 2014 by Phantom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luc Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 I know nowt about the 'Dark side' Mr Walker I too can do a click through 'Tools' in windoze but I find this particular little app a real beauty in it's depth...when I say it lists everything you have on your pooter...it really does do just that everything. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Triode Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 Why do people like Firefox? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 Why do people like Firefox? Because IE and Chrome suck 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emesbee Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 I'm running Firefox 27.0.1. I think firefox has become something of a resource hog of late, but the performance degradation started well before 27.0.1. Seems to be busy when it shouldn't be doing anything. I often get high CPU usage alerts for firefox, but I have no idea what it is up to. 27.0.1 seems to be no better or worse than the previous version, at least in my experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eman Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 A, you might like to have a look at the link I'm about to pop up Eman, you too might like the link I'm about to pop up Mr Walker, not sure wheter you'd need this but I find it an absolute ripper when i want to find out exactly...I mean exactly what's on my PC. Download this free application. I've had it for probaly 7 or 8 years and when I'm not sure what I've got running on my PC both in hardware and software and licences and versions of what ever...well I just click on the shortcut on my desktop. Have a look if you will, it serves no other purpose really than letting lazy buggers know exactly what updates they have, what drivers they have (for everything mind you!) and a ream of other things. Belarc Advisor it's called...have a squiz here>>>Help for you I used that cos I don't know where the 'about Firefox' is. My, that is detailed. It says i have Firefox Version 27.0.1. Working OK it seems to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhitesox Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 Why do people like Firefox? Early on Firefox used to be quite light and fast on the net but it's turned into a big gluggy pile now unfortunately. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Posted February 27, 2014 Author Share Posted February 27, 2014 Early on Firefox used to be quite light and fast on the net but it's turned into a big gluggy pile now unfortunately. Yes it is but it's still faster, on my computer, than explorer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catostylus Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 Yes it is but it's still faster, on my computer, than explorer What isn't? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
progladyte Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Why do people like Firefox? All the free Add-Ons! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
68premier Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Just found this. Glad I wasn't the only one having problems. After the last update, Firefox wouldn't even start at all! Had to switch to Chrome which I don't find quite as good. Thought I would try Firefox again this morning and blow me down it works again! Go figure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaynin Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 (edited) I've got Firefox 27.0.1 Didn't even know I had it until now! Must have been a seemless update on my lappy! +1, no issues at the time of update. Edited March 10, 2014 by Kaynin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nada Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Firefox allows you to be on the upgrade channel which rapidly fixes any security flaws it can be unstable occassinaolly for a short time or to run an old stable supported version. Take your pick. Its plugin are mightly eg allowing you to wipe ads off pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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