Firefox: The great fuck up updater

[nebulae]

I miss the list of recently visited sites that comes up in FF when you click on the address bar.

When you do a new page, the list of sites in mini windows is sort of a most frequent sites. There's also a history section too. I really like the minimalized uncluttered browser presented by Chrome. It's very Maclike, which leads me to the homosexuals I'm about to respond to below...

[nebulae]

Gay slur directed at Mac users in 3…2…

None necessary when self-evident.

[leedsquietman]

Safari on Windows is quick but has a lot of compatibility issues compared to FF, even Chrome as a fairly new product runs more compatibly with most websites in my experience.

Seriously though, the main plugin which causes problems IMO with FF is Adobe Flashplayer, if you play any kind of Flash game online, or facebook apps etc, every second day there is a 'flashplayer out of date' message. Flashplayer is continually being exploited (and windows media player is another app being exploited more and more).

Opera is another browser which I have always found reliable and reasonably quick, I hardly use it except as a backup because I never loved the GUI. Before FF became big, I used it in preference to IE for a couple of years, when they did away with the annoying single line text ad.

FF is still my fave, but things can change. It has increased in size quite a bit due to all the extra security issues as much as feature requests but I don't feel it's too bloated.

Try out the alternatives and if they work better for you then use them. I still remember what it was like browsing with IE5 and 6 and how freaking insecure they were, so I have some loyalty to FF for not only being more web compatible and bringing cool features like tabbed browsing and extensions, but it significantly reduced adware/virus threats on the computer too.

[beats me]

Seriously though, the main plugin which causes problems IMO with FF is Adobe Flashplayer, if you play any kind of Flash game online, or facebook apps etc, every second day there is a 'flashplayer out of date' message. Flashplayer is continually being exploited (and windows media player is another app being exploited more and more).

Don't you be talking shit about Flash. LSZ will drive out to where you live and fuck your shit up. It's just that important.

[steko]

Maybe this?: http://appletoolbox.com/2010/04/mac-os- ... om-delays/

You probably know that, but who knows:

Go to Preferences -> Advanced -> Update -> deactivate automatic download add-ons

Also deinstall all unneeded addons & plugins: Menu -> Extras -> Add-ons

[LoopStationZebra]

Seriously though, the main plugin which causes problems IMO with FF is Adobe Flashplayer, if you play any kind of Flash game online, or facebook apps etc, every second day there is a 'flashplayer out of date' message. Flashplayer is continually being exploited (and windows media player is another app being exploited more and more).

Don't you be talking shit about Flash. LSZ will drive out to where you live and fuck your shit up. It's just that important.

Stop baiting me, you bastard. You KNOW I cannot resist. YOU KNOW THIS.

[H20nly]

I wonder why my car is sluggish? It seems slow lately.

**scratches head oblivious to the 2 tons of additional shit that was added since the initial purchase**

[leedsquietman]

[ethios4]

I miss the list of recently visited sites that comes up in FF when you click on the address bar.

When you do a new page, the list of sites in mini windows is sort of a most frequent sites. There's also a history section too. I really like the minimalized uncluttered browser presented by Chrome. It's very Maclike, which leads me to the homosexuals I'm about to respond to below...

Weird, when I opened Chrome to check this out it opened right up to the mini windows even though I had it set to a blank page! Whoa man, it knows!

[crumhorn]

Speaking as someone who spends a good part of my time trying to make web pages render and function correctly on 8 different browsers, all browsers are shit **fact**.

Use whichever one seems least shit at the time.

Ideologically I support FireFox, and it is absolutely essential for developing web apps. but recently it's being a real pain with runaway processes using 100% CPU. Probably a plug in, but the upshot is the same - time wasted sorting it out.

Opera has many nice features, If I had to choose a "best" browser for general browsing I'd probably vote for Opera.

I really like the minimal design of Chrome but, to me, Chrome, IE and Safari represent three big corporations fighting it out for control over the web as an application platform. Apple and Microsoft both ignore standards or make their own "standards" when it suits them, and it's only a matter of time before Chrome becomes a gateway designed to lead you into the greater world of google.

[ethios4]

Adobe Acrobat Reader is the most annoying application, I think. It takes longer than any application to install, updates more than most any application, installing the update takes forever and usually a reboot, and all it does is open a fucking PDF!!!!

[nebulae]

Adobe Acrobat Reader is the most annoying application, I think. It takes longer than any application to install, updates more than most any application, installing the update takes forever and usually a reboot, and all it does is open a fucking PDF!!!!

I turn Adobe updater off and I only update every few dot versions. It's quite a self-important piece of software that does very little.

[H20nly]

Adobe Acrobat Reader is the most annoying application, I think. It takes longer than any application to install, updates more than most any application, installing the update takes forever and usually a reboot, and all it does is open a fucking PDF!!!!

I turn Adobe updater off and I only update every few dot versions. It's quite a self-important piece of software that does very little.

yep... went so far as to rename the updater to 'updater.old' in
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe's_newest_lame_updater_rev

Reader 8 actually was bringing some of our PCs to their knees at work because it was trying to update via an internet connection that you have to have a login to use. Its persistence caused it to go from having the choice to casually update to never working again via above rename. Fuck them.

I really like the minimal design of Chrome but, to me, Chrome, IE and Safari represent three big corporations fighting it out for control over the web as an application platform. Apple and Microsoft both ignore standards or make their own "standards" when it suits them, and it's only a matter of time before Chrome becomes a gateway designed to lead you into the greater world of google.

+1 totally.

What makes it so bad, is that we can sit here and watch it coming. Grab the pop corn, prop your feet up and watch it like a bad horror flik.

[LoopStationZebra]

Adobe is the greatest software company ever you fucking ungrateful bastards.

[john doe by choice]

Adobe is the greatest software company ever you fucking ungrateful bastards.

Since I have just been wowed in the last few days at the improvements implemented in CS5, I will say that while your comment is probably sarcasm, Adobe is slowly becoming my hero, based solely on the amount of boring work it has removed from the overall creative process.

/continue with sarcasm...now.