Anyone familiar with Fire Fox Browser

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Bufford

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I used Fire Fox Browser for a couple of months and liked it. It cleared my browsing history automatically and I could bookmark pages and use their pop up blocker but now things have mysteriously changed. This is a windows 7 64 bit laptop.

I had picked up malware through Avant Browser and after reading up on it Avant had security problems so uninstalled it and had a proffesional from my antivirus paid to go and clean up the machine and it worked better but problems later returned so I bulldozed the house so to speak and lost 3 years of data after formatting the hard drive. At least my video work was saved but I lost everything else knowing little about computers.

I intalled Fire Fox and it is different from the older version as the tool bar is completely different. I could not delete history for the first few days. Today I found the setting called delete everything. It deleted everything including my bookmarks. I uninstalled Fire Fox again and now have a fresh version. Again the tool bar is totally different as there is no button on the tool bar to bookmark websites....And now I cannot find that 'Delete Everything' anymore either, the skin or tool bar has changed yet again. Maybe still have a virus?!:confused:

I turned off windows update as the updates highjack the computer and then continually fail to install. I was told to install updates one at a time or a few at one time. That will take awhile and will do that later.

Maybe I should simply go back and us IE browser?
 
Up till a few minutes ago, I was running Fire Fox 24. But as I was looking for the Clear history option for you, the browser updated to version 25 and restarted. 25 looks the same as 24, at least on the surface on my Windows 7 Pro 64bit machine.

To clear your history in 24 and 25, go to "History", the second option in the drop menu is "Clear Recent History". It brings you to a menu asking what you want to clear and how far back. Book Marks are not mentioned, so I have no clue how yours got deleted. That's really strange.

Am not seeing any "Book mark this page" button on the tool/menu bars. I miss that from previous versions. Looks like we either have to use the hot key [Ctrl+D], live with clicking on the "Bookmark" menu, then sellecting "Book mark this page" or switching browsers. I run IE, FF and Opera on my main machine. FF Opera and Chrome on my other one.

I've been wondering why companies can't leave well enough alone? Seems like they keep removing buttons from the menu and tool bars to make things more streamlined, but all it does it make it the program slower and harder to use.
 
I am going go with it for now, but if Fire Fox is making changes like this this I will go back to using IE, I cannot see what advantage to security or for use these 'free' things provide, other than for marketers to track internet usage. Add on browser are not worth the trouble if they keep changing their apearance with each new version they launch.
 
While making lunch I manually installed Microsoft updates in small batches and finally had a successful install after 3 days of steady fails when it tried to update automatically. This made changes to Fire Fox , everything looks familiar now and the bookmark button and tool bar layout is proper. Perhaps it is better to have all Mircrosoft updates installed after doing a format before installing anything else.
 
I had to switch back to explorer this afternoon, firefox just seemed to give up today, guess it might be the same virus/maleware
 
Bufford said:
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Maybe I should simply go back and us IE browser?
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That would be your biggest mistake. Never, ever, use IE if you care even slightly about the security. Firefox is better, and so is Chrome. Use any of these, and you'll be good to go. The bigger problem with all browsers is the lack of standard - so each browser maker changes the way they behave (without fully understanding the effects). Especially bigger problem with open source software where anyone without nappies is allowed to change code. Anyways, rant aside, you can use the FF shortcut: ctrl + shift + delete to bring up the History Menu, no matter where the bars are (re)positioned.
 
If you want to bookmark a page just right click the page and a menu will pop up with that option
 
I have used Firefox for years. I finally gave up and switched to Chrome. MUCH better browser. I have had far fewer problems that were browser related!
 
Everyone sides with avoiding IE, I'll heed the warning. Fire Fox runs fine now, its now a matter of getting other plug ins installed and programs I use. For some reason Adobe Flash fails upon installation and emails using Windows Live Mail is still very slow when sending out mail.
 
I've used FireFox for years (Mozilla before that.) It always annoys me when they "upgrade" the software and take away or move features. When FF, Acrobat, Silverlight and a couple others would update, they would invariably fail to load properly until I updated everything. Even stuff I never actively use.
A couple weeks ago the PC was really, really slow. I did a complete scan and my A/V found nothing. Rebooted. Ran well for a bit, then slowed way down again. So I unistalled FF and loaded up Chrome. I can't say I love it - it has fewer buttons and options than FF, and even though I created a homepage I have to click Home to go there - it always opens into something else. But my PC is no longer slow.
(I have a Desktop running Windows 7.)
 
My problems first started back in the summer when my computer started slowing down, then it started duplicating all my video files making a mess out of the entire video file that took me hours to manually sort out. I was using Avant Browser, Avant started up slow and full of errors. I uninstalled it, and temporarily used IE and the computer would run fine, but download Avant and the problems returned. I read up on the matter and there were several reports of malware issues with Avant. I switched to Firefox and had the computer cleaned up and it ran okay for awhile but then problems returned forcing me to do a full format.

Its better now, but it still needs some more updates. Somehow I lost my MicroSoft Word installation disc. Is there a way to import a copy from my old Vista desktop computer I havn't used in some time?
 
If you guys ever feel like geeking out try Ubuntu os which is a free Linux distribution. You can boot from a disc or thumb drive. If you have compatible hardware with Ubuntu it runs very fast with little malware risk as its a Linux.
 
Thanks everyone for their input, this laptop is up to speed now, and I found the Microsoft Office disc and good to go.
 
Sorry about reviving an old post. But you could also try out Seamonkey which is a based on Firefox, and Midori which is a light weight browser. I don't know If Midori is good on W7 or W8 since I'm running Fedora 20 mate on my laptop lately instead of W7.
 
Firefox is the best. Chrome is ok, as long as you install SRware Iron instead, which is chrome without all the spyware. Adblock plus works much better on FF than chrome, even stopping ads before youtube and other flash videos. Add ghostery also, to eliminate trackers.

I am running firefox 26, but I still have tabs on bottom, normal menu layout, etc. Like it should be.
right click at top on a blank area and see that menu bar is checked, uncheck tabs on top.

Never use IE unless it is on a fresh install of windows, in which case you will have to use it once to Download firefox.
 
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