Dont waste your time with FF 3.5.5

yellofury · #1 12-14-2009, 11:40 AM

I upgraded my Firefox to 3.5.5 yesterday and ran into nothing but trouble since
and judging by Mozillas Support Forum, so have many others

While the new add tab feature is cool as well as the start private browsing and the ability to limit the awesome bar, this version runs SLOOOOOOOOWW!!!

half the time new windows dont connect

I went back to FF 3.0 and ran into none of these issues

anyone else getting good / bad issues?

Bob Lee (QSC) · #2 12-14-2009, 11:46 AM

I've been getting those same issues too.

varunkapahi · #3 12-14-2009, 11:51 AM

am running 3.5.5 no issues apart from big pdf files screwing the browser

RWP · #4 12-14-2009, 12:18 PM

3.5.5. here, no issues at all. Knock on wood.

L-A · #5 12-14-2009, 12:23 PM

No issues at all here. I'm working on a FF 3.5-specific site at this very moment.

bongomania · #6 12-14-2009, 12:47 PM

I've had some occasional issues. Pages taking forever to load, or timing out, or "connection reset".

jeremyr · #7 12-14-2009, 12:53 PM

no issues her at all and I'm developing in FF3 9 hours a day.

Nyarlathotep · #8 12-14-2009, 01:09 PM

Opera FTW. Syncing bookmarks and speed dial was the death knell for FF.....

PaleMelanesian · #9 12-14-2009, 01:18 PM

FF 3.5.5 has been fine for me.

cdef · #10 12-14-2009, 04:02 PM

I was having some of those problems with FF 3.5.5. Pages stalling intermittently while loading, file downloads interrupted... So as an Opera user from v2.12 - v9.57, I decided to go see where they're at now, and downloaded v10.10.

My goodness, but it's quick. If they could only have something as effective as FF's Adblock Plus plugin there'd be no contest.

Dave · #11 12-14-2009, 04:17 PM

3.5.5 is workin fine for me on OS X. Wish I could say the same for Safari though. Absolutely ridiculous stalling and slow loading for pages.

yellofury · #12 12-15-2009, 06:10 AM

As of now im running :

FF3.0
OPERA9.10
GOOGLE CHROME
IE

I like FF best and then Opera
I still like FF but I had the same issues like Bongomania
I can take it happening once and awhile but it was happening every time

Bocete · #13 12-15-2009, 06:30 AM

I love my FF3.5. No troubles whatsoever, other than searching for compatible plugins.. And that was at the time 3.5 was first launched. Everything works here, and it seems to work faster than 3.0.

Nino Valenti · #14 12-15-2009, 06:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bongomania

I've had some occasional issues. Pages taking forever to load, or timing out, or "connection reset".

+1.

PaleMelanesian · #15 12-15-2009, 07:03 AM

Try updating your Flash player plugin. As crazy as that sounds, it fixed my similar problems - pages (in all my tabs) just stopped loading or timed out. It was as if the internet just hit "pause". Updating flash fixed that for me.

**Eric Perry** · #16 12-15-2009, 07:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RWP

3.5.5. here, no issues at all. Knock on wood.

Same here... So far.

Nyarlathotep · #17 12-15-2009, 10:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cdef

My goodness, but it's quick. If they could only have something as effective as FF's Adblock Plus plugin there'd be no contest.

Just right click + block content. Click on what you want gone and it goes (theres a few where it doesn't get the addy or something, but you can enter **** manualy).

I know for most people on the internet these days a little work is a lot of scary, but if you're like me and only visit a few sites regularly and just hate some of the flash animated ones it works out pretty good. I think it was a day, and no ads on photobucket or TB.

There are a couple of javascript adblockers, but I find they don't work as well. YMMV tho

MadMan118 · #18 12-15-2009, 12:28 PM

I dropped Firefox at v3.0, you think its kinda sketchy in Windows, it's a trainwreck in Linux. I use Opera now, faster and more secure and the speed dial kills.

mcapote · #19 12-15-2009, 12:30 PM

no issues on 3.5.5 here

Pilgrim · #20 12-15-2009, 12:33 PM

I'm running 3.5.5 right now on this forum - no problems.