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Mozilla Firefox

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Version:  3.5.5

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Avoid this update, wait for a fixed version

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Contributed by: Markarian421 Thursday, August 20 2009 @ 09:04 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: NO

Firefox has been my main browser for years. If it's yours, I recommend avoiding this update unless you want a reason to go check out alternative browsers. This week I updated two macs, both PPC, to this version. One's running OS X 10.5.8, the other 10.4.11. On the 10.5.8 machine, after a few days and a few reboots I still get the "upgrade complete" screen when I start Firefox because every time I've opened it since the update, I've eventually had to use force quit to make it go away. On both machines the basic pattern is that Firefox just stops responding and the CPU goes to 100%. Often I've been in the middle of typing something, and suddenly I see the spinning beachball and the characters I was typing slow down to appearing at the rate of about one per minute.

So . . . until they get that fixed, if anyone knows of a good ad blocker that works for Safari 4 running under OS X 10.4, let me know.   
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Avoid this update, wait for a fixed version - laddieo

I've seen the same things being described here on my MBP, and I'm at least encouraged to learn its not just me!

And it actually has been an opportunity to get acquainted with some other browsers. I've even learned to tolerate Safari!

I've also actually resorted lately to running Firefox via VMware Fusion launching XP. At least it works there.

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Wednesday, August 26 2009 @ 10:10 AM PDT


Avoid this update, wait for a fixed version - sirron33

http://download.cnet.com/Safari-AdBlock/3000-2378_4-10793198.html

Try Smart Scroll too. I couldn't live without it. Ron.

http://marcmoini.com/sx_en.html

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Wednesday, September 09 2009 @ 03:22 PM PDT


Avoid this update, wait for a fixed version - Markarian421

I've been running 3.5.3 for a day now on the 10.4.11 machine and so far so good, it hasn't locked up. After my recent forced Safari usage I do have to say that most of the time Safari seems to be a little faster and a lot less CPU intensive than Firefox, at least on this ancient machine.

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Sunday, September 13 2009 @ 09:26 AM PDT