3.6 force updated? Goodbye Firefox, RIP
I've been holding on to dear life with 3.6, ever since I tried Firefox 4 and felt like my head was going to explode in frustration.
Why did Firefox have to change? Was it because the other browsers were doing it? I don't understand why the UI had to change so much, why everything suddenly had to be 'stylized' and 'modern'. Was there something wrong with where my buttons used to be?
Before someone says "you can customize the positions", that isn't my problem. It felt like Firefox is a completely different browser since 3.6, and at first I refused to upgrade because the UI was so different, I was no longer able to use the browser for what I wanted anymore, you know, to browser the internet. My problem, or rather question is, why did Firefox have to change?
With support for 3.6 ending, I finally decided that perhaps now is the time to upgrade. But then I realized, Firefox 4+ is so different, it may as well be a different browser. And so I'm now breaking my habit of browsing with Firefox, whether or not I end up picking Firefox 12 (or whatever crazy number they're on now, seriously, it feels like a new version comes out every week), or some other browser, who knows, 3.6 is gone, I'll miss it.
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So, do you want me to walk you through easy steps to make your Firefox almost exactly like 3.6, or did you just want to explain your frustrations?
For Gods sake man get a grip....lots of us have to do the same thing&use a new version, I went from 3.6,24 up to 12 & had over a year with no problems. If you did'nt b4 turn off your FFox updates in advanced & just set your security update on, and just sit back & you wont miss not having a google toolbar in the end. I'm gona stay with FFox anyway because to hell with chromeµsoft (tried DICTATERSHIP'S) &bad intentions to all used online, freewill & freechoice forever,hahaha...luv2all....liamo777
Tyler, could you post that? Every attempted I've made, most recently on FF11, have been frustratingly lacking. The biggest problem I keep could never solve is the lack of a proper legacy status bar, every status bar addon so far I've tired were terrible, and no suitable FF2 or 3 theme. I've been a FF user since before 1.0, and like a lot of people, I went "WTF" to FF4. UI shock is the easiest way to get on my bad side, but it did not help that back then at there were no options to change it around and nearly no addon compatibility. I actually did not even like FF3, it wasn't even till relatively recently when I stopped using a FF2 skin due to compatibility issues with on of the later 3.x updates. One of the main reason I continued to not touch FF4+ is that every time I tested it, it used far, far more memory than 3.x, but still had the exact same limitations and would run in to problems and crashes much quicker than 3.x. Lately I've been running in to sites that are extremely bogged down with js and FF3 just chokes on it (even FF9+ do). So I've been finding myself using Chrome for more than just testing now. Chrome has a bad habit of using tonnes of memory which is at least spreads across a lot of processes, but it loves to randomly crash tabs. I've noticed a trend that every version since FF4 has been trying to look more and more like Chrome. Chrome is an awful browser, its UI is annoying and locked down; the only thing Chrome has going for it is that it can handle the horrid amounts of js that some sites like to use now. I use FF at work for doing research, I can easily have many hundreds of tabs open in dozens of windows through the course of a day. I had tried to use FF7 for a month; I had gotten the UI has similar to 3.x as possible for the time, but after several weeks I noticed that I was getting more done remotely accessing an old computer with FF3 over a slow network link than I was the local FF7 install.
If you got some way to make FF12 work like FF2/3 without using dozens of slow addons, I'll give it another shot.
TAD2020, If you read https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/926330 you can see there is a user who wanted to keep 12 looking as much as like 3.6 as possible. Hopefully that helps :)
Gonna give this a try again. This addon looks promising: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/luddite-ui/