Why upgrade to latest Firefox?

I work on Macs at work and home. My iMac at home is newer, came with the newest Firefox, which I HATE! Now I'm bombarded every morning to upgrade to the latest Firefox at work. Why in the world should I do this? The newest version has the tabs in a different place (harder to tell where you are) and the refresh button has been moved so I always have to look for it, the "home" button has disappeared and I can't find a way to customize that bar, the stop button has disappeared. I could go on and on, but I just don't like it. Is there a safety/security issue really involved? Why oh why do you keep moving things around? I used to work in a software company, and I saw firsthand that things would get changed from version to version just because they COULD! Not that it necessarily made things BETTER!! I saw many, many criticisms of the latest FF version, so why keep changing something that people used to like? I started using FF because I thought it was better and more user-friendly than Safari, but I may have to go back to it.

Firefox is customizable and you can put the appearance back to what you were used to.
You can make '''Firefox 6.0.2''' look like Firefox 3.6.*, see numbered '''items 1-10''' in the following topic [http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/firefox-problems.htm#fx4interface Fix Firefox 4.0 toolbar user interface, problems (Make Firefox 4.0 thru 8.0, look like 3.6)]. ''Whether or not you make changes, you should be aware of what has changed and what you have to do to use changed or missing features.''
* http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/firefox-problems.htm#fx4interface
There is a lot more beyond those first 10 steps listed, if you want to make Firefox more functional.
 Please mark "Solved" one answer that will best help others with a similar problem -- hope this was it.

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[[Image:FirefoxSafeMode|width=520]] 
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