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DarkStar · Post by **DarkStar** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 12:30 am

A couple of days ago I updated Firefox. I have noticed a few problems:

(a) when I resize the Browser window lists of information can get corrupted and displayed is some sort of staggered patchwork,
(b) similar things can happen to the main menus and the right-click menu,
(c) on some sites, drop-down lists (e.g. to select password characters) do not work,
(d) on starting , sometimes it display a page from my History, not the default home page.

I have gone back to v31 for the moment

Anyone-else seen this? Any workarounds?

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 5:44 am

My god. There is a thread around I started a million years ago talking about how fast FF updated......but.......

34.0.5?????????

Wow, that's just crazy. Sorry I can't be of help.

planetearth · Post by **planetearth** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 6:40 am

hibidy wrote:My god. There is a thread around I started a million years ago talking about how fast FF updated......but.......

34.0.5?????????

Wow, that's just crazy. Sorry I can't be of help.

Mozilla decided years ago to move Firefox ahead by leaps and bounds to "catch up" with Chrome's version...because they thought everyone who used it was so stupid that they thought the version number of a Web browser actually meant something about how good that browser was. So, regardless of how small the fix was, every time Mozilla made a change to FF, they increased the version number...until they felt they'd "caught up" to Chrome.

As far as the latest update, it's a beta version. Mozilla doesn't tell you that when they (all but) force you to update, but you're adding things (like "Hello") that you may or may not want. If this beta version doesn't work well for you, you can launch FF in "safe mode" to see if it works better. If it does, you can have FF reset itself. If that doesn't solve the problem, I suggest using the free Revo Uninstaller to remove FF, before you re-install it. (You won't lose your bookmarks or stored passwords, but you can back them up if you'd like to be safe.)

Steve

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 6:42 am

Hold up, are you saying that the beta version is being shoved down peoples throat? (I've had a couple of shot so not sure I'm reading correctly)

planetearth · Post by **planetearth** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 6:51 am

hibidy wrote:Hold up, are you saying that the beta version is being shoved down peoples throat? (I've had a couple of shot so not sure I'm reading correctly)

If you're on v34.0.5, you were probably nagged by FF to update whatever you had just two days ago, even though there was nothing really "wrong" with the version you had.

Check this: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/say ... TRE475558a (starting half-way down, in the "What You Need" section)

and this: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/3 ... easenotes/

Version .0.5 might have resolved some of the 34.0 beta issues, but if you check to see what else is still unresolved, Bugzilla (FF's bug-tracking site) tells you the "list is too long for Bugzilla's little mind". (To be fair, many of the issues are fixed.)

Steve

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 7:25 am

That's not cool.

I gave up on FF a while ago because of many issues. Opera isn't perfect by any stretch, but I've had far less issues since moving. I don't think that a beta should be forced on anyone. And though the OP has every right to post about this, I don't think that a beta is for anything other than "beta"

chaosWyrM · Post by **chaosWyrM** » Fri Dec 12, 2014 6:16 pm

i set ff to never check for updates a long time ago. sometimes, if i remember...ill see if theres been any actual improvement worth an update. usually there hasnt been. in fact i generally dont like firefox updates. im on 29.1 which i think came out back in may. if i remember correctly i had gone to 30 and hated it so i went back...not sure though.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Fri Dec 12, 2014 6:21 pm

hibidy wrote:My god. There is a thread around I started a million years ago talking about how fast FF updated......but.......

34.0.5?????????

+1

They should skip punctuation and just call it v three thousand four hundred and five instead

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 10:57 am

After I updated I didn't quite like that Duck Duck Go was added to my list of search engines automatically, without permission being asked.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... r-firefox/

The tag line is that "DuckDuckGo is the search engine that doesn't track you" then it goes without saying that it shouldn't be shoved down my troat either

stardustmedia · Post by **stardustmedia** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 11:44 am

Why not posting over at a Mozilla forum?

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 11:47 am

deft_bonz wrote:Why not posting over at a Mozilla forum?

No discussion allowed here?

stardustmedia · Post by **stardustmedia** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 11:51 am

Numanoid wrote:
deft_bonz wrote:Why not posting over at a Mozilla forum?
No discussion allowed here?

hehehe... of course not... i just think you'll get better and faster help there

meanwhile you can use another browser, or as you did an older version. FF34 runs pretty fine here, alongside Chrome 39

RunBeerRun · Post by **RunBeerRun** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 2:04 pm

I'm on the newest Firefox, I like it. My cable internet didn't like it at first.

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 2:09 pm

I think it's just the nature of software that is updated so often (cf. Facebook mobile apps)

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 2:09 pm

IMO, they should just stop calling it version X.X, and just implement a totally new and fresh GUI every month. Then people will be like "OMG, the new Firefox is so awesome, because it looks so.... new!"

Firefox 34.0.5