TSGL: Firefox annoyances--is there an answer?

[H Davis]

Don,

FF is much better than your experience would indicate. Stick with it.

If you visit the FF Add-On (also called Extensions) site _USING FF_, you 
should just click the big green box that says Add to Firefox to install 
it. You should see a progress box and the DL/install (it's all one 
process) should take only a few seconds. You do have to restart FF (not 
Windows) to actually make most Add-On's effective. Most Add-On's will 
add an entry in the Tools menu that gives you access to any options they 
might have.

There is a great variance in the quality of the Add-On's. Read the 
comments and visit the authors site before deciding. Seek advice from 
long time users on which are useful and reliable.

Each time you start FF it silently checks to see if there are new 
versions of your Add-On's and will notify you if there are. You will be 
given an opportunity to DL the new version before FF actually starts. 
After DLing the new version (taking only a few seconds) FF will continue 
the start up process and open as normal with the new version of the 
Add-On effective. Very handy and efficient.

The downside - when a new version (usually just the major revisions) of 
FF comes out it will notify you at start up that some of your Add-On's 
are incompatible with the new version and disable them. It usually takes 
a while for the Add-On author to get on the stick and update them. Some 
are very fast, some, eh.... not so much.

Hang in there Don, we'll make you a FF fan yet.

H Davis

Don Penlington wrote:
> Cyndi wrote:
>   
>> With XP, Firefox has an tab icon up top.>>
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> Mine doesn't. It does show the tab bar.
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> Ian wrote:
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> <<Use that add-on, it should fix your tabs problem.>>
>
> I did. It didn't.  The addon didn't seem to self-install, I ran it and it 
> just unzipped to some folders. I manually moved their contents to the 
> similar folders in firefox, but not sure if I got that right.  Do you have 
> to go through all that hassle with all its addons?  I'd expect them to be 
> self-installing. I couldn't find any instructions on the addons page about 
> installing them.
>
> Overall, I must say I'm very underwhelmed with Firefox and will probably 
> trash it, despite its enthusiastic following and its speed.
>
> Nor do I care for its method of installing all its data into my C-Drive, 
> which I keep for the OS only. I've always thought that's bad programming. 
> Maybe there's a reason.
>
> I did manage to get the tabs bar moved, so that's one success out of 3. The 
> other problems seem to be intractable.
> Perhaps my system (XP SP2) or my security settings do not suit it.
>
> Don Penlington
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