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I'm using 10.0.1 and I never see any nags for updates. Tools | options | advanced | update = never check for updates Art

Why don't you want to upgrade? The newer versions are faster and more secure.

"Artemus" wrote in news:jni4qs$s01$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

I'm using 3.6.10 and I have no problems.(xp pro sp3)

John Larkin wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

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I dont upgrade because every new version is slower and more bloated.

I've been using FF 3.5.5 for the last three years on this machine. My broker's site recently stopped supporting FF below 4.0. I just used User Agent Switcher to make it look like FF 5.0. No problems!

My other OS's have FF up to 11.0, but I see no advantage there.

Firefox seems to keep getting better. And there are lots of cool add-ons, like Flashblock, InFormEnter, FireFTP.

This is not IE !!!

What make you think FF is slower and more bloated ?

Wait, are you still using a Pentium 1 ??

OK, your right.

The main obstacle for me is that my favorite add-ons don't work with the latest. I know how to force it to install, but still no-go for some of them.

FF leaks memory big time. I only have about one dozen FF windows (for each area of interest and/or customer), each with perhaps about a dozen tabs in each, perhaps 100 tabs total.

At startup this consumes about 700 MB of virtual memory (7 MB/tab is that reasonable ??). Opening new tabs and deleting them or some older ones and the total number of open tabs still in the ballpark of 100, the virtual memory consumption is up at 1500 MB. With 1 GB of physical memory and other applications, the systems slows to a crawl.

And yes, the FF plug-in-container is even a worse memory leaker.

Mozilla created the Plugin-Container to prevent Flash and other player memory hogs. But they instead created an application that will consume more CPU over time than just about anything else.

1. Be sure your updater is set to never check. Options, advanced, update.

1. Check your add-ons, extensions (or plugins, I forgot which) for a Firefox add-on. This got mysteriously installed on one of my computers which creates a nag when you launch FF which states that version 12 is the last version for Win2k and XP sp1, maybe sp2. Removing this add-on cured my machine. I was about to stop using FF until I just found this. What the hell are they thinking coming up with a nag such as this!?! This is an issue which hasn't hit the search engines yet.

Hmmmm? I'm not seeing that. All I ever see is an occasional "NoScript" ad whenever FF (v12) is launched. ...Jim Thompson

OBVIOUSLY all messages that have that BS about virii are SPAM and you are best advised to completely disconnect the computer from any and all networks and perform a very thorough AV scan, root-kit scan, etc using at least three DIFFERENT AV programs.

You can open 'Windows Task Manager' and close 'Plugin Container' without crashing FF.

Alternatively, you can use FF

Help | Start with add-ons disabled

but still it appears that the plug in container is started in some cases and it is faster to abort the plugin-container with task manager.

I generically block Flash and scripts, and allow on a page-by-page basis only. ...Jim Thompson

I'm running Firefox 12 and Silverlight 5.0.61118.0 - and the crashes are spectacular! Now interestingly the reason for plugin-container was to prevent Browser crashes and let the plug-ins crash gracefully. I think Mozilla screwed the pooch on version 12.

I don't understand this. I am running FF 12.0 under Win7 and have had no crashes or other problems. I don't remember which version of FF I initially installed back in 2009, but I've had no problems whatsoever. Maybe I'm just lucky?

Yikes. =20

Of course i do not experience that issue as i don't leave browsers on for very long. Do my business and close it.

?-)