Tweak Firefox

Mozilla Firefox Browser keeps freezing while Internet Explorer works very fast and smoothly?

What is wrong with firefox? it freezes right away when its clicked. Often i see a sign saying, “(not responding)”.

I have avira antivirus, lavasoft firewall and PC tools spyware doctor fully updated and running in real time protection.

I ran lavasoft registry cleaner too. But still firefox freezes a lot. Is this happening with others too?
firewall allows firefox to access. I already listed it as trusted program on firewall settings.
lavasoft registry cleaner is for $30. its not free. But i doubt that any registry cleaner can fix this.

My antispyware software, PC tools spyware doctor detected a bug in firefox known something like, “website_hijack”. It was unable to remove the infection. I know many other people are having same problem. So something is real bad in firefox.

What do you think about the proposed changes for Firefox 3.7 and 4.0?

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/zd/20090929/tc_zd/244498

Mozilla development team is currently working on making the next two future models of firefox. According the the article I’ve linked to above, there are some pretty radical changes in store. Stuff like…
-a complete overhaul of the general look and feel
-elimination of the “home” button
-initiation of specialty tabs, such as “home tab”, etc.
-applications that appear in tabs
-elimination of the menu bar (file, edit, view, etc..)
-with the elimination of the menu bar comes the elimination of the bookmarks feature (mentioned in article)
-possible replacement of the conventional bookmarks feature with a widget
-combining the address bar and search bar into a single field

Here’s a picture of the new firefox in it’s early development:

http://www.appscout.com/assets_c/2009/09/Firefox%203.7%20Phase%201-5328.php

Truthfully, I don’t think I will like these changes, should they become reality. I use the home button all the time; taking it off would cause quite an inconvenience.

The “specialty and app tabs” I think would take up too much space in the tab bar. My window of view is already small enough with the tab bar and other things… I don’t want/ need it to get even smaller! As for the applications, the article states that these are merely popular sites that users visit almost every time they get online. The app tabs would be smaller than normal and meant “to give users quick and efficient access to their favorite sites”. However, if I’m using the app tabs for my favorite sites, I certainly don’t want them to be smaller! Besides, it is no trouble to open a regular tab and select a bookmark. The app tabs would just clog up the whole browser.

As for the menu bar, I find it vary useful, and look to it quite often for all sorts of matters, ranging from the bookmarks menu to the “delete history” feature. If it is removed, how will firefox uses be able to access the features in the menus and selections?

The worst thing firefox could do with its browser, in terms of efficiency and functionality, would be to remove the bookmarks feature, as they have hinted. I use my bookmarks list several times a day, 24 / 7! Without it, how will I get to my desired sites? I’m not about to go around memorizing those incredibly long and complex URL codes!

Firefox is trying to maximize its efficiency with these updates, but removal of the bookmarks feature (amongst the many other things I’ve listed) will make it incredibly difficult to navigate the web. These proposals seem to be something that be the ideal experience for one who uses the internet solely for visiting 3 or 4 sites. But for other people, who have a long list of bookmarked sites which they may want / need to visit every so often, their experience will be exacerbated.

What are your thoughts on the proposed updates?

Help with Firefox Bookmarks?

Hi. I am new to using Firefox (after decade of IE). I am pretty happy with it (if still a little lost), but I am not too thrilled with the way it handles bookmarks. Is there a way to set it, when bookmarking a page, to prompt you when you are creating a bookmark with the same name as an existing one? With IE, if you try to create a bookmark with the same name as one which already exists in that folder, it prompts you as to whether to rename it, or overwrite the existing bookmark. I liked this, because I DO often overwrite bookmarks which have changed or are an updated version of an older one. As it stands, I tend to end up with several bookmarks with the same name.
Thanks Charly. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work with the new Firefox.

Upgraded to the latest version of FireFox After restarting I could not browse? Also how do I export bookmarks?

The browser acts as though it is connecting to the page, yet without giving any sort of error, it shows up as blank. Just pure blank with the address on the URL bar, and (I forget the name sorry) the little page icon that often appears next to the address is a blank page, the name of the website also does not load on the top bar.

I restarted my computer, but this didn’t work either. Not even the “What’s New” page of FF that automatically comes up after an update wouldn’t load.

I have no idea WTF this is about but I have no way of browsing now. I’m on my PC since I have no other way of browsing on my laptop (I’ve gotten rid of IE)

I just don’t know what happened because I didn’t do ANYTHING ELSE! I downloaded the update, installed and then restarted FF.

If this is a general problem then I want to uninstall FF completely and revert back to the previous version- but I did this before on an old comp that didn’t handle the upgrade too well, and I lost my bookmarks.

How can I save my bookmarks?

Thank you!