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Re: Mozilla Firefox
« Reply #18 on: Monday 17 October 11 20:53 BST (UK) »
Strange thing happened tonight using Mozilla to access this site, it was taking over 5 minutes to flick from a page of unread posts to the next. I left Firefox, and used IE8 instead with add ons disabled, a transformation, pages per minute again insted of vice versa.IE8 wins for once.
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Re: Mozilla Firefox
« Reply #19 on: Tuesday 18 October 11 08:50 BST (UK) »
I tend to avoid add-ons (although I'd miss my Google toolbar !)  :)

I think they cause more trouble than anything else  :)
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Re: Mozilla Firefox
« Reply #20 on: Tuesday 18 October 11 17:47 BST (UK) »
BUT a few minutes ago around 17.40 I trtied to post a reply to a thread using IE 8, the counfounded thing wouldn't let me. I suspect though have no proof other than every other site I tried worked OK that the problem was here with Rootschat.
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Re: Mozilla Firefox
« Reply #21 on: Wednesday 19 October 11 01:19 BST (UK) »
Thanks to Nick for your guidance; I should like to free myself from Firefox freezes also. I see that one remedy is reloading FFox; if I did this would my bookmarks and remembered passwords remain? I rely heavily.
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Re: Mozilla Firefox
« Reply #22 on: Wednesday 19 October 11 10:02 BST (UK) »
I think that if you reload Firefox 'over the top' of your existing one, then all your bookmarks and settings will remain.  Of course, it's always possible that your bookmarks and settings could be the source of the problem, but it doesn't hurt to try  :)

P.S. You can import and export the bookmarks and settings between most browsers, so if you also have Internet Explorer, you could export settings to that for safekeeping.
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Re: Mozilla Firefox
« Reply #23 on: Wednesday 19 October 11 10:26 BST (UK) »
Thanks to Nick for your guidance; I should like to free myself from Firefox freezes also. I see that one remedy is reloading FFox; if I did this would my bookmarks and remembered passwords remain? I rely heavily.
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Pinot - I don't have saved passwords, but Firefox bookmarks are relatively easy to back up & restore (I've done it to take them from an old computer to a new one so I can vouch that it worked). On the menu follow
Bookmarks
Show all bookmarks
Import and backup
Backup
(it suggests a file name & location - you can alter these if you prefer, but suggest you make a note)
Save

To restore - follow the same stages to "Import and backup" and then select restore.


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Re: Mozilla Firefox
« Reply #24 on: Tuesday 08 November 11 19:34 GMT (UK) »
For those who are interested Mozilla has released version 8.0 of Firefox to-day.

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Re: Mozilla Firefox
« Reply #25 on: Wednesday 09 November 11 15:07 GMT (UK) »
Last evening I had Firefox 8 virtually rammed down my throat. After thought and having several freezes earlier I decided to instal it, so far no freezes today, although as they said some add ons are now disabled until they are updated. At least I have IE8 (For all its faults) running in parallel so I should be able to access them.
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Re: Mozilla Firefox
« Reply #26 on: Wednesday 09 November 11 15:53 GMT (UK) »
I had the pop up for Thunderbird 8 before the one for Firefox 8. I've not installed either yet and will probably leave it a few days as there seemed to be a distinct slowing on some sites after the last FF upgrade which has only gone back to normal in the last few days - whether it was related or not I don't know, but it has put me off an immediate update.