In reply to a post by zyborg47:

I have heard that Mozilla is going to change the updating of Firefox in that it will update and you got no choice about it. At the moment you can choose to update or not, but that is stopping, it will be like Chrome.

Hate that idea, my computer, I will choose if I want stuff updated or not.

That's why I haven't Chrome, and still on FF 3.6 !
MY computer, my choice.
Regards,
Martin

I'm on Debian testing (Linux, not Windows so apologies for barging in). Debian testing have a fairly conservative policy but within the last month we have been upgraded to Iceweasel 5.0 (Firefox 5.0 to you). It appears stable and I can now access sites such as Santander which I couldn't before.

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In reply to a post by zyborg47:

I have heard that Mozilla is going to change the updating of Firefox in that it will update and you got no choice about it. At the moment you can choose to update or not, but that is stopping, it will be like Chrome.

Hate that idea, my computer, I will choose if I want stuff updated or not.

That's why I haven't Chrome, and still on FF 3.6 !
MY computer, my choice.
Regards,
Martin

I use Iron. There is a way to stop chrome updating, Google tries and hide it mind you and don't announce it.

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

I have heard that Mozilla is going to change the updating of Firefox in that it will update and you got no choice about it. At the moment you can choose to update or not, but that is stopping, it will be like Chrome.

Hate that idea, my computer, I will choose if I want stuff updated or not.

That's why I haven't Chrome, and still on FF 3.6 !
MY computer, my choice.
Regards,
Martin

yeah, on the versioing hiding, from what I can see about 95% at least of FF users oppose it. dev's completely ignoring them.

A motto for Mozilla geeks: If it's not broke, don't fix it! I'm fed up with this endless tinkering and being forced into latest versions. FF6 has an annoying semi-transparent background and buttons switched around for the hell of it.

This chopping about has become so tedious that I may go back to IE9. Especially as one Government department won't download to Firefox, it insists on IE9 anyway.

There were no UI changes between 5 and 6.

Fair enough, I'm still on 3.6 and staying there, having seen the FF6 plaster on my wife's new machine. She can't get 3.6 so it looks like IE again ...

There were no UI changes between 5 and 6.

Corrected that for you

By the way, currently have 4 tabs open (3 this site and 1 wikipedia) and FF is using 370MB of RAM according to task manager. Not very impressive.

Edited by Pipexer (Fri 26-Aug-11 18:11:34)

I hated the change so use the Firefox 3 theme for Firefox 4 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firef...

That's just history. Close it and reopen it and it'll go to 150 again. I guarantee chrome etc will do the same if used for long enough.