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NorrinRadd
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Posted: Fri Sep 5th, 2008 06:03 am |
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Anybody using FF3? I finally succumbed to Mozilla's nags and installed it as an "upgrade" over top of FF2.
I noticed that it immediately lost some of my bookmarks, including the one for AARM. I had to manually reenter them. Now I notice that one of the ones I reentered yesterday is gone again. Is this a known "issue," and is there a fix?
Also, the little arrow-thingies that cycle the Tab-bar have vanished. Is there a way to recover them?
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Posted: Fri Sep 5th, 2008 09:55 pm |
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it ported my bookmarks fine, so i dunno . . . tho its quite different in look . . .
i don't understand the second thing 
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Posted: Sat Sep 6th, 2008 05:17 am |
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met wrote: it ported my bookmarks fine, so i dunno . . . tho its quite different in look . . .
i don't understand the second thing
Seems to be ok now. I've gotten my butt-load of extensions installed, so I have all the features I had under FF2. For some reason, some of the extensions took 2 or 3 attempts before they would install, but they eventually did.
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HardyHeaven
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Posted: Sat Sep 6th, 2008 06:20 am |
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I continue to resist the nagging.
I'll be curious to hear from you both in a week or two as to whether you felt it is a worthwhile upgrade.
Meanwhile, I continue to press the procrastinate button. 
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Posted: Sat Sep 6th, 2008 11:21 pm |
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I don't know nuthin' 'bout no upgrades.
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Posted: Sun Sep 7th, 2008 10:32 am |
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HardyHeaven wrote: I continue to resist the nagging.
I'll be curious to hear from you both in a week or two as to whether you felt it is a worthwhile upgrade.
Meanwhile, I continue to press the procrastinate button.
My early impression is that it starts up noticeably faster, loads pages slightly faster, but seems to have a slight bit of confusion when rendering some pages at ChristianForums.com.
"Supposably" (a little Joey Tribiani lingo there) it's more secure and stable, but that's not something I or any "end-user" would easily notice in day-to-day operation.
The biggest difference to me is one that is sort of odd and unexpected: The contents and order of the right-click pop-up menu are quite different. I had settled into a pattern wherein I would right-click and automatically go to just the proper spot on the menu. Now I have to take a couple of seconds to find the item I want.
Another thing is that the behavior of the "tab bar" is slightly different. That one *may* turn out to be something I can tweak via a "setting" for the browser or one of my browser extensions.
Overall impression: It was a pain tracking down compatible extensions and getting them to install properly. Now that that's done, the upgrade is a modest improvement. I'd say it was just barely worth it to get rid of the nagging, and to have the sense (justified or not) that I'm using a safer and more secure version of the browser.
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Posted: Sun Sep 7th, 2008 06:28 pm |
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Thanks for the info, Wayne.
I'm determined to procrastinate for now.
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