FireFox 6.0

[Sean Troy]

Anyone else having problems with this latest version of Firefox? Pages don't completely load or take forever. Very slow. Can I revert to an earlier version? Thanks, Sean

[Ron Jones near Indy]

Don't have an answer for your question. It works fine for me.

[Bill Huber]

No problems with my 6 that I have seen on any site.

[mike holden]

Sean,
try disabling all your add-ins, you may still have an incompatible with 6 addin loaded.

FF6 works just fine for me, but I did lose a couple addins - expect they will soon be updated and reloaded, FF is good about that.

Mike

[Bryan Morgan]

Firefox has gone downhill with the last couple versions... it gets slower and slower, addons or not. They're entering the bloat stage of software development, like all software eventually does...

[Bruce Page]

A racing website I frequent uses flash videos that no longer load using Fire Fox 6.0. They used to load fine and still do using Chrome. I don’t know if it’s an Adobe Flash player issue or a FF issue.
I haven’t noticed any other problems with FF.

[Sean Troy]

Yeah, it seems chrome is the fastest again. Still can't get it to work right no matter what I've tried.

[Dave Lehnert]

I learned with my computer a long time ago if 's not broke, don't fix it.

I still run Firefox 3.xxx

[Jim O'Dell]

I've refused to update even to FF5. Still on FF4.01. Main reason is the add-ons I use, and there aren't many, haven't been updated to work with the newer versions. Until the add-ons catch up, I'll stay with what I have. Jim.

[Sean Troy]

I uninstalled FF 6.0 and deleted any traces of it. Re installed and now it works fine.

[Curt Harms]

A racing website I frequent uses flash videos that no longer load using Fire Fox 6.0. They used to load fine and still do using Chrome. I don’t know if it’s an Adobe Flash player issue or a FF issue.
I haven’t noticed any other problems with FF.

For flash problems, you might try Flash-Aid in the addons. You will need administrative priviledges to run it. No nasties included with it; the author is quite active in the FireFox community.

[Curt Harms]

I've refused to update even to FF5. Still on FF4.01. Main reason is the add-ons I use, and there aren't many, haven't been updated to work with the newer versions. Until the add-ons catch up, I'll stay with what I have. Jim.

Be careful with old versions. Version 4.x is no longer supported or patched and I'm not sure about 5. 3.x.x will be supported and updated for a while, I don't know how long. Mozilla has gone with Chrome's versioning scheme where instead of 4.x.x it's now 5, 6, etc. I'm using 7 beta right now on a beta operating system. Surprisingly stable considering. Addons for 6 should be pretty well caught up. I have one addon that won't work on 7 yet. Extension writers are encouraged for make their software not version dependent and Mozilla is talking about doing away with version numbers completely. If that happens, when you click on "help" > "about" you'll see either "you have the latest version" or "click here to download the latest version".

[Steve Baumgartner]

The problem I've had with FF starting with 5 and continuing in 6 is that it takes forever to shut down. The window disappears immediately, but if I look via task manager, the firefox process and a whole bunch of plugin containers are still running - usually just a few seconds, but sometimes for a minute or more. I've read that this is how they deal with deleting cookies if you've got that privacy setting on, but it seems pretty inept and if I get in a hurry and sleep the computer while these are still running, FF is left in a confused state and doesn't start up correctly the next time.

[Bruce Page]

For flash problems, you might try Flash-Aid in the addons. You will need administrative priviledges to run it. No nasties included with it; the author is quite active in the FireFox community.

Thanks Curt but it looks like it is only for Linux systems.

[Curt Harms]

Thanks Curt but it looks like it is only for Linux systems.

Sorry Bruce, didn't know that. The other thing might be the uninstall flash, run CCCleaner or another registry/trash cleaner, shut down then restart & reinstall. I haven't run FireFox in Windows for a year or more so I'm not up to speed on the rapid-fire releases.