Firefox 4 -- Is it the worst browser ever?

I was using Firefox 3.??? and was prompted to upgrade to a newer version. I agreed to up-grade to 3.6.16 but when I went to download this I was fed Firefox 4. I have tried using 4 for about two weeks on an old Vaio laptop running Windows XP. It is unbelievably slow and crashes in every other site. Watching video online? Forget it. I loathe this new browser.
I have just uninstalled 4 and reinstalled 3.6.16. This was very easy (a) download 3.6.16 from FileHippo or similar source. Go to your [drive name]:/programs/mozilla/firefox/uninstall folder and click on uninstall. Do not click the tab which uninstalls your personal bookmarks and add-ons etc. 4 is gone. Don't need to reboot. Just click on 3.6.16 and install. Everything up and running in one minute. 3.6.16 is what I expect from Firefox -- easy to use, lightening fast, and no site crashes (except when visiting this site, curiously enough). Will be staying with 3.6.16 for a year or so to give the nice folks at Mozilla time to (a) tar and feather those responsible for this fiasco then burn them at the stake (b) scrap 4 and (c) go straight to Firefox 5 without stopping at Go or picking up $200 as they pass.
So, my question, is Firefox 4 the worst browser ever? I dunno but it is certainly the worst Mozilla browser I've ever tried using. Do you agree? Discuss.

Downloaded version 4 today. Worst move of the day. I don't have the time to learn a whole new layout. It wasn't broken - don't fix it. Does NOT support Billeo which I use all the time. Deleted 4 and re-installed 3.6. Will NOT upgrade again.

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Here's why I think the Blackberry Pearl is the worst phone ever made.
1. I can't get photo's off of it. My G1 takes a few seconds. I've worked with this Pear for hours upon hours cannot get my photo's off of it. The Desktop manager really bites too no help there. I really dislike this phone. The software just as bad. I guess they were on the move when Desktop manager was getting written.
2. The phone on occasions would lock on letters instead of numbers. There wasn't an intuitive way to get it unlocked. I found it more intuitive to get a my return from the IRS than it was to get the phone back to dialing numbers.
I'm having my kids dress up as a Blackberry Pearl for Halloween. I'm going to make a Halloween Movie Freddy Kruger attacks people with Blackberry Pearl the topper scene features unsuspecting Pearl user getting tied up and has them attempt to copy their photos off to a PC and the video gets put on Youtube for Christmas.
Very unsatisfied with your product.
Don Quixote

I want to join the fun here and list all the different reasons why I'm very unsatisfied with this phone.
The actual phone part of this phone is pretty slow. It accepts a phone number almost 3 times slower than I can type it in. Even typing a name on their handy search bar takes forever to get a result. If I type to fast, it just ignores a couple of my numbers so I have to delete and retype, at the same super slow pace. I'm guessing that it searches all sorts of contact and history lists to give me cool suggestions, and that's what makes it so slow. Either way, it irritates me to no end that the basic reason I have this thing is slow as dirt.
All 3rd Party and Blackberry apps require the Blackberry data service. Even though there's WIFI on this phone, you simply can't connect to anything except the Browser (and even the Browser requires some setting changes to bypass the upsell screen). This phone CAN do 3rd party services and other applications without the Blackberry data service, but they just don't allow you to.
Sometimes my phone just turns off. I don't normally mind the 3 minute boot up process, but when I'm in the middle of something and my phone turns off for no reason, it just compounds my frustration.
The keyboard freezes up all the time. After a good 1-5 minute "please wait clock", I finally get a message saying there was an error and my input application had to be reset. Sometimes it doesn't quite reset all the way and I have to pull the battery and again wait for the long boot up process.
Its a little unreliable. Besides the phone turning off at random and the keyboard freezing, I still have problems other problems. My bluetooth turns off and sometimes doesn't come back. Once I had to get a new phone sent to me in order to correct that problem. Pressing buttons doesn't always get a response, especially the green "call" button. If the phone is bogged down, it just ignored commands, which is pretty frustrating especially if you press a button and accidently double enter a command that is both the "on" and "off" options. Also, sometimes the screen fades out (like its suppose to) but doesn't come back when you press keys. Or the external notifications just don't turn on. It somestimes just doesn't read my memory card. The zoom feature on my camera also got stuck.
Other small gripes involve having no caps lock, the SureType never learning from my typing ("Hey" always goes out as "Get"), its overall slowness, the looseness of the back casing, the low quality camera, and so much more.
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C3-01 The Worst phone ever nokia released....

C3-01 The Worst phone ever nokia released....bcz of no poor software,does not provide basic functions where other cheap phone do,
touch screen Problem...and so on....

I contributed to this thread earlier:
http:///t5/Cseries/C3-01-Problems-and-Limitations/m-p/1050133/highlight/false#M20370
Since then I've resolved the WAP problem; but as the OP has stated, the problems I've had with mine have been far and away more than all the phones I've had in the past -combined!
It fails on calls (I'm paying of the call, but nothing can be heard)..Today my touchscreen decided to go AWOL. and locked up..so I took out the battery, same again..then the battery AND the SIM card. Same again..It wouldn't unlock, the only buttons that worked were the push button ones...Then it decided it would work a little, and auto scrolled (Yes really!) the side bar..The it defaulted to the help screen without being touched (Battery out again)...then it worked as it should..but now...if I try to press an icon, it moves up the screen as I press it, so I can't actually open (for example) messages or my address book. If I hold the menu icon down for three seconds, it will eventually open up, but the rest won't..but it might all change in an hour or two..So yes, i agree with the original message it is probably the worse phone Nokia has released.

Firefox is it the only browser that you need to have your task manager open with in order to surf?

Firefox is it the only browser that you need to have your task manager open with in order to surf?

Nothing much to see on that site, but I don't have a problem opening the page. See screenshot.
Try running Firefox in [[Safe Mode]]. If it functions properly in that configuration, then one of your add-ons is the culprit.

If Firefox is not the default browser is there anyway to create an "Open with Firefox" right click option for internet icons on the desktop??

When internet icons on the desktop are right clicked and Firefox is not the default browser, is there anyway to create an "Open with Firefox" option in the right click menu? If not you should create one in future versions.

You will have to create a copy of the Firefox desktop shortcut and add the URL to the target line if you want to open such an internet shortcut with Firefox.
A normal internet shortcut will always open in the default browser.

Hp the worst brand ever! Worst support and customer service

I bought the HP envy touchsmart 15-j001tx from Relaince Digital, Mangalore on 1st october 2013.
When i reached home and opened the laptop i noticed a spot in the middle of the screen that was seen even when the laptop was switched off. It resembled some sort of liquid inside the screen. When i turned on the laptop it disappeared after a few minutes so i left it. On 2nd october when i opened the laptop in the morning i saw that the liquid spot had reappeared and it had spread and it was now covering the middle one third of the screen.. I turned on the laptop but this time it didnt disappear.
I tried calling the seller and he told me to call customer care.. I called customer care but since it was gandhi jayanti they werent available. So i called them again on 3rd october and they registered my complaint and asked me to send pics and i did immediately! And they replied saying this damage is not covered under warranty. I called up the dealer again and he said bring it over.. So i headed to mangalore again (from manipal) and when i reached there they tell me that they wont replace the piece but if i take it to hp centre in mangalore they will give me a DOA certificate and then i can get a replacement. So i took it there but they too are dancing around the topic. Now i dont have a laptop and i dont have my 80,000 rupees that i spent trying to get this.
I will fight to get either my money back or a new laptop but to anyone who is reading this... PLEASE keep in mind that HP has the worst customer service ever.. And Reliance digital will sell u faulty pieces and steal your money..
Do not trust these people ever..

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Has anyone else bought the Kin TwoM and found it the worst thing ever??

I got the Kin TwoM and found it the worst cell phone I have had EVER.It never keeps its battery life but for a day and the screen is way too touchy and I can not send people photos or post them online I have yet to get the wi fi to work anymore it just stopped.I hate this cell and if I had the money I would buy different one right now but instead I am stuck with it.

Maybe I should clearify this a bit the issue wasn't the device but more along the devices popularity with the customers, this information is basically posted on a number of forums but I dont see Verizon addressing this as a issue because the device works well for some but it simply wasn't for everyone.. If you search the forum you could find a number of reported reviews...
Check this one... https://community.verizonwireless.com/thread/355420/page/5

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When I first instal iWeb 2.0.1, all was wrong but one day started working, this was until the patch of iWeb 2.0.2 when again everything was wrong again, I do like a lot iWeb and I have a lot on my .mac account I even have 20GB of hard disk in my subscription, but this is the tip of the iceberg for me, probably the lasts weeks I have the .mac account, I have been waiting for a fix like most of iWeb users that are on this forum, and what I see is mac really not listening to the clients of iWeb, this is probably the worst Update mac has ever had, we users of mac knew that mac always test the software on the users, but when the users have a business based on their web pages like me and probably a lot of other users, then Apple is affecting third party and not the regular users.
I really don't know what to think right now of this update, but is definitely not working for a lot of users that we are desperate that Apple hear us.
I know probably Apple is having the finishing touches of Jaguar (nice) but we the ones that are affected with iWeb 2.0.2 are having way bigger problems and there is no one in Apple who really is looking at the problem.
My sites are this ones:
www.cinematograf.com
www.soloenmexico.net
I wish I can continue working with Apple but if this problem persists I will be forced to leave .mac and never come back because of this bad taste on this issue, I will probably use Dreamweaver and rent a hosting plan with better things than .mac.
As you all can see I am really mad and ****** about this issue and I am shure I am not the only one.
Do you think like me?
Adolfo

Jon,
When 08 came out, I Correct al my pages, I re did all of them, so that is not the problem, I even had to almost kill my whole site in order to it work perfect, that was when I had 2.0.1 then Apple send us the update for 2.0.2 and it was then when It stopped working at all.
With 2.0.1 there was problems and we all fix them as .mac told us, but with this update 2.0.2 there is nothing to fix there is probably not solution, so a lot of us are desperate, and we just wish to go back to the settings on 2.0.1 they worked fine (at least the last 2 weeks of version 2.01).
Then as you see my site: www.cinematograf.com is huge and www.soloenmexico.net (lives from the comments) (the last one has already 90 publications that makes it a 3 month old site (yes I made it with '08, in full) I can't think of loosing all the comments as that gives the site self promotion, the problem is that I had been already since "9/13/07" that I can't publish a thing it did work for a day on "9/24/07" as you can see on the site, but that was the last day it worked since then we can't publish a thing, the problem of that particularly site is that it was growing a hype and one day off we loose public opinions and one week off we loose fans, so is not really cool of mac to keep us off like this
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Why CF10 is the worst version ever to install

Hi All
I'd thought id share some of the pain ive been having with installing CF10. We have a pretty big install environment and during our CF10 migration project we have had to install
- a dev VM on CentOS
- 3 UAT boxes on Solaris 10 (Sparc)
- 4 staging/Prod boxes on Solaris 10 (Sparc)
all up that's 8 installs of CF10 and almost 20 instances of CF across all the applications. I have to say I'm really disappointed. This is the first big update ive done on Unix, in the past ColdFusion v4-v9 I have worked on Windows servers.
Some of my main greifs have included this time around:
- You must apply the mandatory update after you install
http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion-10-mandatory-update.html
- you then must update to the latest patch - update 11. Except on Solaris I have found it wont do work via CFIDE. You have to use the command line. (CFIDE is broken)
- CFIDE is horribly broken, we cannot use the 'settings' page at all. Everything must be edited via neo-*.xml files
http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion-administrator-fails-permission-denied.html
https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3536062
- wsconfig doesn't deal with multiple sites and multiple instances very well and you have to do everything manually. Including extracting the connector from WSConfig.jar
http://rob.brooks-bilson.com/index.cfm/2012/2/23/Configuring-Multiple-Instances-of-ColdFus ion-10-with-Apache-Virtual-Hosts
http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion10-apache-manual-connector-configuration.ht ml
- Solr/jetty Init Script is broken
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1009951
- the installer on Unix doesn't install it so that the service auto-starts, you have to do that yourself.
- the Init script doesnt deal with multiple instances or give you a PID so you know how to kill it if it wont stop gracefully, which is happening alot!, we ended up writing our own init.d script.
IMO the next version of CF needs more work on the installer annd CFIDE side of things. It is way too hard to install.

I hear your pain, Pat, but since I help people solve problems like this daily (and they are not always what they seem), I want to share a few thoughts in reply. I realize it may only smack of me being a CF apologist. It comes from sincere motivations and experience in trying simply to help people.
The mandatory update is required because the Adobe-wide server certificate was compromised weeks after CF9 came out. They (the CF team) did not rebuild the installer but offered this “mandatory update” instead. Sure, they could have done a new installer, and some may assert they should have, but that’s a big effort considering how many platforms they support (both OS’s, web servers, databases, their versions, and combinations thereof.)
Same with the need to apply updates upon installation. This is nothing new at all for CF10, but was the same for previous releases, for the same reasons as above.
As for “the CFIDE” being “horribly broken”, I assume you mean the CF Administrator (one of several things provided within the CFIDE folder). As for any page not working, my first suspicious in a case like that is that perhaps the problem is not “in CF” but rather with your configuration. This is just a guess, but an educated one: could it be that you have CF10 trying to run against a CF9 or earlier version of the CFIDE folder? I see it quite often, and not intentional or expected by folks, of course. First, did you happen to have CF 9 or earlier installed on the machine? Or even if not, did you perhaps bring onto this “new machine” a web site docroot that included a CFIDE folder? Or what about your Apache conf file (since you are on Linux). Might it still have alias’s defined pointing to a CFIDE from before?
In CF10, the CFIDE is always stored in the (cf10)\cfusion\wwwroot, or (cf10)(instancename)\wwwroot, if you create a new instance. The thing is, if somehow you either already have a CFIDE in the docroot for one or more of your web sites, or if there is an alias (or virtual directory, for those readers using IIS) that points to another one besides that stored in the CF10 wwwroot, that could cause the problems you are seeing.
As for the wsconfig, you refer to multiple sites and instances. It should handle multiple sites no problem, and no differently than previous releases. As for multiple instances, there is a difference in CF10. Whereas the previous wsconfig would let you install any site into any of your available instances, the CF10 one for some reason does require that you launch it from within the instance you want to configure a connection to. It does not find and list all instances, if run for the main cfusion instance’s folder. That is indeed confusing to many. (So don’t get me wrong: I’m by no means suggesting that CF10 is perfect. Just that things are often not quite as they seem to some.)
The concern reported about the Jetty/Solr service sounds legit, per that forum entry, but I do note it’s from 2012. Are you sure it’s not something that’s been resolved by an update? You don’t mention if you did apply them, but I’ll assume you did. Did you notice if there were any changes in your problems with the Jetty service after that? And perhaps also the autostart issue?
As for your finding that CF often “won’t stop gracefully”, what do the coldfusion-out.log or (in linux, cfserver.log) tell you in the entries around the time of your attempting to stop CF? There could be (and usually are) clues.
Finally, if you may mean that CF (or the Apache connector) seems to be “crashing a lot”, did you catch the indication in the readme for the update (both update 11, and earlier ones) that states that after applying the update, you may (and generally must) rebuild or at least update the web server connector? Sometimes the updates include a fix to the connector (mod_jk.so for Apache, isapi_redirect.dll for IIS)? If that file (in each folder under (cf10)\config\wsconfig) is still dated March 2012, then you have not updated it and can expect serious problems under even moderate load.
Hope all that’s helpful. Again, not trying to entirely negate your assertion of CF10 having issues. I just think the “worst ever” seems a bit over the top. I understand how you may feel that, but I hope I’ve offered some hope that there may be explanations for things, and that they may help you get off on a better foot if you go forward.
All that said, there is certainly room for improvement in any subsequent release, with respect to the installer, the web server config tool, and other things that you’ve touched on. Let’s hope that Adobe will consider them.
/charlie

What are the step by step instructions to set up Firefox Sync with the 360 Browser on IPad? (from someone who has done it, please)

I have been all over Mozilla trying to find instructions for the 360 browser/Firefox sync for the iPad. There is no infromation at all on the site & it is very frustrating. I am starting to find Firefox to be very time consuming & not user friendly. If you are attached to a product/system, you should have specific links for the necessary support instead of a 'search' runaround! I have collectively spent 2 HOURS on this & no results. UGH!

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Why does Firefox make itself the default browser when it upgrades?

I deal with a lot of pages that aren't standards compliant and have to be rendered in IE, so my "default browser" is a tiny app that examines each URL and sends some to IE and the rest to Firefox. Every time there's a new version of firefox, it makes itself the "default browser" and now all of my non-compliant pages try to open in firefox, so I have to dig into the windows settings once again and tell it to use my app to open HTML documents. The "Always check to see if firefox is the default browser at startup" is not checked.
This happens each time a new version comes out, and has been happening for over a year.

Sorry, I can't answer as to exactly '''why''', but maybe it has to do with the fact that every new version of Firefox has a new '''firefox.exe''' file installed - even the "minor version" security updates.

LG Extravert possibly the worst phone ever!

"Upgraded" to this phone and I have to say it was the worst mistake I have ever made as far as phones go. 1. The screenlock button is at the top right side, so whenever you grab the phone normally and try to do anything with it, adjust volume, whatever, the screenlock button is inadvertently touched more often than not and locks the screen up. Horrible placement for that button. 2. The speakerphone is the worst sounding piece of junk ever! I can get better sound out of a garage sale walkie-talkie! 3. If I want to listen to my voicemails, check a bank account balance, etc., and I dial from the closed position, as soon as the call connects, the screen goes dark and I can't put in passwords, account numbers, menu options and the like from the touchscreen. I have to open the phone and do everything from the Qwerty...AND turn off the speaker phone(which is activated when I slide the phone open) to keep my account info and voicemails from being soundblasted all over creation. 4. But, by far, the most irritating thing about this piece of junk is the horrible problem with texting. After having the phone for about two weeks, I noticed I could not delete certain texts. No matter how I tried to do it, texts would not delete! I took it in to Verizon and they rebooted it several times and every time the texts were still there! Since there wasn't anything horribly important contained in those texts, I took the chance at exchanging it anyway, knowing personal info was still on the phone. I took the new one home, and two weeks later, SAME thing started happening, only worse!. Not only could I not delete loads of texts(a few I could), I but texts that I hadn't even read yet were disappearing. I get the alert that a text had come in, I open the screen to read the text from "John Doe", and the text disappeared! I later found it in the folder of "Jan Smith". A response to a text from my son, he never got, but it shows up in the sent folder to an entirely different person. I sent an "I Love You!" to my wife. Doesn't show up there...it shows up as a sent text to a guy friend of mine. This is so ridiculous I don't think I will give this back to Verizon. I would like a credit on my account for the $45 in upgrade fees and taxes, and I want to keep the phone. I will take it home, throw it down in the driveway and enjoy beating the snot out of it with a sledgehammer!

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The new change in ios 7.1 as dialing and recieving screen is the worst change ever apple did as making it more bold you making it as a local phone the best one is of ios 6 so for the next update think for the bold

Dialing and recieving changes which had been done in ios 7.1 is worst than ever why you making it smaller make it bold like before as in ios 6.

Tell Apple yourself:
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Verizonwireless.com now features exciting new benchmarks:
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     - Consistently fails to clearly and fully list what customer will pay -- you actually have made it more obtuse than ever!
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Is it the crackhead web designers or the crackhead executives who hired them who deserve this new distinction for your website?

- shuts ACCOUNT MEMBER accounts out of exploring anything other than inconsequential details. If you are the account owner and your online account only has member access, call customer service and have them help you correct that.
- of course "Account Analysis" is going to be in VzW's favor with it's recommendations.
- the employees in brick and mortar stores are there to support the people who come into the store. Would YOU want to go into a store and have the employee say "hang, on, give me a minute, I'm helping this person on vzw.com"? I know I wouldn't.
- It looks pretty clear to me what the plan/feature charges will be when going through the website. What isn't clear for you?
- broken links definitely are present.
VzW's web designers DO suck, but they suck because of the broken links and straight-up bad web design, NOT for the reasons you've given.

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Up to Flock 2.6, it was based on the Mozilla gecko rendering engine that Firefox uses, but recent versions of Flock are based on Chromium, as used by Google Chrome.
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