I started getting popups all the time. I asked here for advice and one was to get AdAware. I did and it didn’t help. Now I get popups from AdAware every morning asking me to pay for permanent registration. Finally I upgraded to the latest Firefox and the popups disappeared. I don’t much care for the new UI, but I can live with it.
On the basis of this thread, I have been declining Firefox’s nags to update to 29, and am still running 28.
Now 30 is out. Can anyone report on it? Has it fixed any of the things people were complaining about here?
Is it worse?
As far as I can see, the update to 30 made very little obvious difference. It did not include significant changes to the UI the way that 29 did, and it did not break the extensions (Classic Theme Restorer, Classic Toolbar Buttons, and Throbber Restored) that I had installed to restore 29 to how I like it.
With those extensions, and a bit of rearranging of the main toolbar, I now find 29/30 quite acceptable. I don’t like that I had to find, download, and configure three extensions just to get back to more-or-less where I was, but that is another matter.
As I noted in another thread, it’s those panels that appear when you open a new tab. You don’t see anything because those panels are filled with your previously visited sites. The ads in question only appear for those who have no history to fill those panels with.
Nope. I just get a blank when I open a new tab in Firefox. No previously visited sites or ads.
I feel for the OP. I used Firefox on Windows for a number of years after abandoning IE. I liked Firefox, I really did. Started noticing people at work were using Chrome. I thought I’d try it out. Everyday, one half day using Firefox, the other half using Chrome. By the second week I abandoned Firefox. On Windows, Firefox felt like this huge lumbering beast that took forever to load and with the latest release, in addition to what the OP stated, certain plug-ins/extensions wouldn’t behave. Then I had to go figure out why.
I use Chrome on everything and Chromium on Ubuntu/Linux. I even bought a Chromebook so I could spend even less time on Windows by using Gmail, Google Docs and Drive. Our company is abandoning Microsoft Exchange in favor of Gmail/Docs/Drive and word around the campfire is that we aren’t the only ones. (And I live/work in the Bay Area.) Chrome ain’t perfect but there’s a whole lotta crap I don’t have to blow cycles on anymore. There was a time I felt the same way about Firefox.