Firefox, you have let me down.....

[dropCGCF]

I recently recieved my first Firefox pop-up. Not to say that it's going to become a regular occurence, but still, the fact that it's happening saddens me. Anyone else have one yet?

[Happydude]

yeah...i get one once in a while....doesn't bother me though since it's only like once a week.

[KillerGremlin]

Regardless, Firefox is still much more stable then IE. It's faster, runs better, and doesn't tie up your system.

[The Germanator]

Agreed. I have gotten the occasional popup from Firefox which has left me shocked, but I can't imagine how many I would get just in one day if I started using IE again...

/me shivers at the thought

[Blackmane]

Even the best programs can be slipped around, I suppose.

And, like everyone else said, no matter what, ANYTHING is better than IE.

[Typhoid]

I think I've gotten a grand total of about....6 Firefox pop-ups.

[Null]

im sure they'll tweak its popup blocker soon. i've seen 2, but since they opened outside firefox in a new window, and everything i do opens in a new tab it has yet to bother me. only times i've noticed on thoes 2 i've seen was because i closed firefox and went to get out of the chair and noticed the little popup window still open. looked at it for a sec and said.. huh, we'll i'll be damned...... *alt f4* *walked away*

[GameMaster]

It's not Firefox's fault. The advertisers are just finding ways around the blockers. The same thing has been happening to me on Safari. I've NEVER had a pop-up using Safari, but in the past month or so I've had about two. I checked to make sure my block was activated and it was so the pop-ups are getting smarter. It was bound to happen sooner or later.

[Canyarion]

FireFox has become very slow on my PC. When I open it, it sometimes takes 10 seconds before the window appears. And other programs are much faster in the same situation.

I also hate it when I hit the 'back' button (or backspace) and it doesn't show the part that I was reading before, but goes back to the top of the page. It happens pretty randomly I think. :(

[MuGen]

Firefox is still fairly new, and I wouldn't say it's more stable then IE just yet. Of course the popup blocker is a lot better and Firefox seems faster, but IE is still the more stable program for me.

When surfing and trying to watch gametrailers or music videos, Firefox doesn't recognize the plugins for QuickTime and Media PLayer that I've installed countless times for it...

Firefox 2.0 should be the best version released when it is.

[Null]

you gotta be kidding. firefox is already 10 times more stable then IE has ever been. (i'd like to help ya with the quicktime and media player plugins but i dont know what exactly and how your installing, i've never had such problem tho)

[MuGen]

nvm, I just changed the MIME settings on the internet plug-ins and it works now...

FIREFOX JUST BECAME BETTER THEN IE FOR ME!

lol

[dropCGCF]

nvm, I just changed the MIME settings on the internet plug-ins and it works now...

FIREFOX JUST BECAME BETTER THEN IE FOR ME!

lol


Can you tell me how you do this? I have the same problem with these plugins.

[MuGen]

Well I actually had to re-install QuickTime and when I did it asked me to do the MIME settings so that it knows which files to handle when serving the internet.

But open up QuickTime, and go to Edit ---> Preferences ---> QuickTime Settings

There should be a pulldown box, click it and Select 'Browser Plugins'

Click on the button that says MIME Settings and make sure you have a checkmark on these file mime types:

Streaming video
Video - Video only or video with sound formats
Audio - Audio only file formats
MPEG - MPEG system, video, and audio files.

[KillerGremlin]

Yeah....dude, IE has crashed on my PC countless times......not once has Firefox crashed. It's much more stable on your system.

[Happydude]

i find FF to be more stable than IE as well.

and the only problem i had with so far is that some download links will give me a page full of script or something.

[MuGen]

thats another MIME settings problem. When file types dont have a browser plugin mime set to it, it will just decode the whole file as ASCII info

[Happydude]

some files are .exe or .zip files that i want to download, like Drivers

[GiMpY-wAnNaBe]

some files are .exe or .zip files that i want to download, like Drivers
...and porn.

[Su-Yin]

...and porn.
:hmm:

:p

there are a few encrypted pages firefox cant load on mine...mayb its my settings.....uni stuff most of them...other than that...im all for FF

[Seven7]

May help on popup blocking: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/007903.html

Asa's blog is one I drop by often.

as for the gibberish on page and when trying to download ..etc.. well that is because the server is serving with the wrong Mime type.. like for example "text/plain" instead of what it should be "text/html"

Firefox 1.0.3 is coming soon once they get a few things ironed out as there is an issue like one Bugzilla patch that may break a number of extensions. The 1.0.3 does have a fix where it can remove the old entries of Firefox in Add/Remove because people do not know better to uninstall old version before installing new version in same place.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/007905.html

For those of you who use Firefox on Windows, the .zip release's of Firefox is not available anymore since the 1.0.2 release as there is a huge problem due to people installing the .zip 1.0.1 and then getting a upgrade peompt for the 1.0.2 installer and then Firefox breaks big time. http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/chase/archives/2005/03/wondering_why_t.html

I have not been by much here as I have been spending alot of my free time at mozillaZine forums and as a busy moderator for last 5-6 months.

[Canyarion]

Is it normal that it opens the download screen for EVERY SMALL picture I want to save? It's terrible. I just want to save something tiny, then FF freezes for 5 seconds and the download screen shows up (with the download already finished of course).

What do I do about this?:(

[MuGen]

Go to TOOLS > OPTIONS

click on Downloads

and check "Show downloads everytime download begins"
and check "Close downloads when finished"

It should cancel everything out with small files like images.

EDIT: Or just uncheck "Show download manager everytime download begins."

And when you download a large file and wanna see progress, just hit CTRL+J and it'll come up.

[Canyarion]

Thanks, that solved it. For the moment. I never had this problem a few weeks ago. It's just getting slower I think.

And are you sure it's ctrl+J? That gives 'Page Info' here.

[MuGen]

go to TOOLS and look for Downloads Manager, and check the shortcut, it's CTRL+J for me.

[Canyarion]

Perhaps I should have cleaned up the download manager earlier, it had 100s of downloads. :p

Edit: thanks again

[Teuthida]

An uncleaned download manager is like aging whore. Sure it got you what you wanted but the remnants of your good time are visible for all to see.