Comment Re:Instability (Score 1) 314
I installed FF1.03 (clean install) yesterday and have zero extensions. Twice now, suddenly and inexplicably, FF has frozen up entirely just after doing onsite searches using ctrl+F. (I think this is what caused it) I usually have several tabs open at once.
The only change I have made was in about:config I made the default background colour #dddddd (which I know does not fit in the "216 safe" colours but shouldn't matter if my computer can see it, should it??)
This new version of FF is quite slow to load as well. I had FF0.8 until this January and loved it. Foolishly, I upgraded to 1.0 with what seemed to be an incompatible webdeveloper extension and had major crashing of FF and the computer that resulted in corrupted files, etc. etc. Not that it was necessarily FF that caused the corruption but it was a bit coincidental. I had to dump it. Of course, FF0.8 was gone as well. The computer pretty much stabilized.
Of course, I check daily for viruses with a daily updated AVG and also do frequent searches for spyware.
I've only now, because of the recent security warnings with NS7, decided to return to FF and am pretty much at my wit's end. I really really don't want to move over to IE6!
I am currently using NS7.1 with javascript and java disabled. (not really ideal situation)
Please excuse the verbosity....
The only change I have made was in about:config I made the default background colour #dddddd (which I know does not fit in the "216 safe" colours but shouldn't matter if my computer can see it, should it??)
This new version of FF is quite slow to load as well. I had FF0.8 until this January and loved it. Foolishly, I upgraded to 1.0 with what seemed to be an incompatible webdeveloper extension and had major crashing of FF and the computer that resulted in corrupted files, etc. etc. Not that it was necessarily FF that caused the corruption but it was a bit coincidental. I had to dump it. Of course, FF0.8 was gone as well. The computer pretty much stabilized.
Of course, I check daily for viruses with a daily updated AVG and also do frequent searches for spyware.
I've only now, because of the recent security warnings with NS7, decided to return to FF and am pretty much at my wit's end. I really really don't want to move over to IE6!
I am currently using NS7.1 with javascript and java disabled. (not really ideal situation)
Please excuse the verbosity....
