Why is Firefox,wanting me to upgrade to the 5.0,after all the problems i got when i upgraded to to the Firefox 4.0?

since i upgraded to Firefox 4.0,i've had nothing but problems,and now you want me to upgrade to 5.0?

Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs on the Windows computer. 
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware. 
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan. 
*http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
*http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
*http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
*http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
*http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free
See also:
*"Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked
Please update Firefox to the latest version via "Help > Check for Updates or Help > About Firefox" 
The Firefox version that you use is no longer maintained with security and stability updates. 
Using unsupported Firefox versions is at your own risk and makes you vulnerable to attacks. 
*Firefox 7.0.x: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

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Firefox 6.0 is the current version.
Get what denoted in what properties link.
You can get the version number in Help -> About Firefox,
and in '''about:support''' typed into the Location bar, and you can use JavaScript to list the user agent -- javascript:navigator.userAgent
I'm not aware of any version of Firefox from Fx 2 on up to Fx 6 where "AVG Safe" is not a problem. Crashes aren't the only failures caused.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/i6
* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527135

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I am getting sick of those changes. I want to have at the google main page the options (as before) to search in all languages, or pages from a certain language or pages in a certain language (of course depening of the google address; f.i. at google.de for german languages, google.fr for french languages etc).
In the latest Firefox 17 it was working as I wanted and described before: when I visited www.google.de/firefox of www.google.fr/firefox. Now those 3 options (under the search bar) are gone and I do not want to operate by clicking on the advanced search button. Those things should be visible under the search bar again.
Also my STARTPAGE was GONE/DELETED after the update !!! Grrrrr.... Updating is OK but mozilla should not change user configured items !!!!!!!
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By the way, do Firefox and IE use the same proxy settings? You can view Firefox's here:
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In the home page why does Firefox say I haven't upgraded when I have. So I upgrade again and still it says I haven't next time I log on. Today I upgraded to 9, it said congratulations on upgrading, I log off then log back on only to be told yet again I need to upgrade. What is going on?

You may see that message below the Google search box on www.google.com/firefox which is the old Firefox default home page. It appears that page is no longer being maintained. You appear to have Firefox 8.0.1 installed which is the latest version.
'''If you want the Google search page as your home page,''' change your home page to '''''about:home''''' (a new, updated version is now built-in to Firefox).
*See --> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/How+to+set+the+home+page
Also see --> https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Finding+your+Firefox+version 
You can also see your version on the ''Help > Troubleshooting Information'' display
'''If this reply solves your problem, please click "Solved It" next to this reply when signed-in to the forum.'''
Not related to your question, but...
You may need to update some plug-ins. Check your plug-ins and update as necessary:
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*Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in: [https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Using%20the%20Shockwave%20plugin%20with%20Firefox#w_installing-shockwave Installing ('''''or Updating''''') the Shockwave plugin with Firefox]
*Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape: [https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Using%20the%20Adobe%20Reader%20plugin%20with%20Firefox#w_installing-and-updating-adobe-reader Installing/Updating Adobe Reader in Firefox]
*Shockwave Flash (Adobe Flash or Flash): [https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing%20the%20Flash%20plugin#w_updating-flash Updating Flash in Firefox]
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I have upgrade ios 6 to ios7 on my iphone 5. I do NOT like it at all. I want to come back to the previous version. why is it so complicated? Why can I not find the instruction strait from apple? This is the worst possible upgrade ever. It make me think of when ericsson got sold to Sony....drastic PC change.
I would like to have simple instruction on how to downgrade.
It feel like a change that I did not ask for , ok I push the upgrade buttom, but really this is the worst update aver!
HELP!

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Why does Firefox sometimes ask me if I want to save my tabs when I close, and sometimes it does not? I usually want to save them, so this is a pain. I'm on a Mac, OS 10.5.8
== This happened ==
A few times a week
== don't know...

There can be various causes for this:
[[Firefox does not ask to save tabs and windows on exit]]

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I want new tab to open to home page and why does firefox not have a simple check box in the options because I can't keep going through the long tedious procedure each time I install firefox. It is something that should be in the options tab , and I want to know why it isn't. I am totally frustrated with firefox and getting ready to switch.

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*https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/searchreset/
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hey, just to keep you updated - there is now a fix available for firefox 25, which should address the particular problem of pages not loading unless the mouse is moved.
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 in case you need to download the setup file for firefox 25.0.1 separately you can do so from https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/channel/#firefox

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'''You need to update the following:'''
*Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.5
*Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape "9.3.3"
*Shockwave Flash 10.2 r152
#'''''Check your plugin versions''''' on either of the following links':
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#*https://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/
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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.

Why does Firefox always block any link I try to open going to a web page when I don't have pop up blocker on?

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It always say that this is preventing this page from automatically redirecting to another page. THIS IS WHAT I AM TRYING TO DO...GO TO ANOTHER PAGE........I DON'T NEED YOUr BROWSERS PERMISSION TO DO THAT. THAT IS WHAT A *%#$&*(&*%$$%% BROWSER IS FOR TO GO TO OTHER PAGES......THEY ARE NOT POP UPS!!!!!
YOU STUPID BROWSER ACTUALLY BLOCKS EVERYTHING AND THAT SUX!!!
HELP!!

Are you using "Clear history when Firefox closes"?
In case you are using "Clear history when Firefox closes":
*do not clear the Cookies
*do not clear the Site Preferences
*Tools > Options > Privacy > Firefox will: "Use custom settings for history": [X] "Clear history when Firefox closes" > Settings
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Clear+Recent+History
Note that clearing "Site Preferences" clears all exceptions for cookies, images, pop-up windows, software installation, and passwords.
Clearing cookies will remove all specified (selected) cookies including cookies with an allow exception that you want to keep.
Let all cookies expire when you close Firefox.
*Firefox/Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: Keep until: I close Firefox
You can choose to keep third-party cookies from visited sites if necessary.
Create a cookie 'allow' exception for cookies that you want to keep.
*Firefox/Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: Exceptions

Somedays firefox crashes 10+ times within minutes, other day it does not crash at all. It will crash when opening, in email, or just on any web site. No rime or reason! Why?

I am not technical at all. I just want to know why somedays my system crashes over and over again, and other days all is well. Each time it crashes I get a "crash report" option, and I always send in said report, but I do not think anyone is checking those!
This has become a real issue and I am very tired of it.

https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox+crashes#Getting_help_with_your_crash
Type '''about:crashes''' in the URL bar and hit Enter. 
Click the hyperlinks to bring up the Crash Report pages and copy'n'paste the URL of each of those reports into the message box here. We'll see if we can help you figure out what is causing those crashes to happen.

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