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I was sent the message: Your Firefox has been updated🎉 Celebrating 150 Firefox releases. It lists a lot of great things but I need to know if all those "great things" are free or do I have to pay for those perks. I do not understand most of what is being touted as great in the computer world, so I'm not sure if I want it or not.......

I am using version 88.0 and browser, both outdated and not supported. How do I update to current version and update browser? I am 80 yrs old and not computer literate, please keep it simple. Also, I am alone, not help available. Thank you

As an older person, having to learn and relearn and constantly relearn how my browser functions is becoming more and more aggravating frustrating and put off ish.

Back in the day, these things didnt change automatically, another version was released instead for download with build notes.

It is starting to feel like having a computer and using it is becoming a troll. Im being serious.

One day the tabs are smaller on the left side, the next week the tabs are somehow grouping together and even though I didnt ask for it to happen, nor did I make it happen, its happening!. Now I have a mute button on the tab, even though my computer already 9 different mute buttons.

One day I had my grand daughter over and it took me 45 minutes to realize why there was no audio on netflix for her to watch. These constant feature changes are being a major part of my and everybodys lives. We are all becoming more impatient with these things.

The majority of new features seem to be unused, from my perspective, by the majority of comments I read on here, facebook, x, etc, they are just simply jammed down our collective throats seemingly at the whims of a designer thinking to themselves "I'm going to move this button over here!" This stuff is not making our worlds better. This stuff is not making our lives easier. This stuff is not making our lives simpler.

The effect is the exact opposite. I read a story last month about an autistic teenager that had a cell phone, because everyone else has a cell phone. When they couldn't get their phone to do whatever it was they wanted it do, they threw it in frustration. Turns out they broke a window at school that cost $5000 by throwing the phone. i don't know what app this person was using or attempted to use, and what caused the frustration, but I sure feel that pain sometimes. The parent posted that because the school sent them a bill for the window replacement.

Let me repeat that: The parent received a $5000 invoice for a window their child broke at school, because they were frustrated with phone.

Is there a way to limit the feature changes or stop them while maintaining security updates?

I literally find myself using the internet less and less, and I feel like this has a lot to do with it. As your product becomes more and frustrating to use, I am using it less and less. And I know thats not what anyone wants.

Why can't we have the best of both worlds??

Seriously? How many updates do you need? We're getting what... 1-2 per week? That's some smegging awful coding. Why not do something mildly intelligent that makes it look like your software isn't full of crap, like only putting in /at most/ one update a month? 1-2 a week makes Mozilla look worst than a Mickey Mouse operation. Hell, worse than a Betty Boop. Unless there's some super-critical omega-level security hole that needs to be plugged, you shouldn't have to have me update my browser more than twice a year.

Show some sense already.

Dear Firefox friends, I am rather computer illiterate and use the internet only for emails and purchasing from Amazon. I have avoided installing Firefox updates, as they disable my sound and change language to Albanian, where I live, but don’t speak Albanian. Can you solve this, or will I have to just avoid installing updates? I have no concern for security; anyone can hack into anything they want, but it will do them no good; I don’t have anything that is sensitive, and my bank has everything well secured (and minimal funds anyway). Do you have a permanent solution – I don’t want to fix every update? I know you hate non-nerds like me, but I'm 80, and have neither the time nor inclination to be one!!!! Thanks, and have a great day,

If I run Firefox 134.0.1 from the installation folder, fine, no problem. If I then attach it to the Windows 11 taskbar, when I launch it from the taskbar, it opens completely unconfigured.

This doesn't happen with other applications or browsers.

Thank you for appreciating my problem.

My user experience on Firefox is being severely impacted and is making me angry. I watch the updates calendar they are once a month. So why can i not go a whole week it seems with a necessary Firefox update to my browser that impacts the performance of websites. I like to have multiple tabs open over a week or more. I don't want to close and reopen my tabs every time I want to use my computer. SO WHY are there SO many updates. It's seriously making me want to uninstall your browser and I have been using Firefox on multiple devices for years. More than 20 years now. It's seriously ridiculous to have a major update every week or even every other week where I have to shut down and save my work on ALL of my tabs just to update Firefox. I have never remember history and I am going to uninstall and reinstall from even greater security because I have serious concerns about the amount of data that big tech companies share with 3rd Parties and the government. I am an honest American citizen and I HATE being surveilled and having my private life sold to the highest bidder. But even though. the safety of your browser is a positive feature it becomes very difficult to WANT to use Firefox when my workflow is CONSTANTLY interrupted.

Seriously, You JUST updated on the 23rd/24th and now just two weeks later there's already ANOTHER update. And who even knows when that one dropped. I only checked it because sites were acting up. And EVERY TIME a site acts up it's because of an update. You have interfered with my user experience with Youtube, and Multiple Streaming Services, and Multiple Chat bots. It's thoroughly dis-satisfactory and disruptive, and ANNOYING. I want a tool that protects me while I am on the web. I do NOT want a tool that ruins my internet experience every week.