Everyone speaks highly of this browser for its security so I installed it last week. Things were OK for a while. Then I started having problems getting to DA.
Then, yesterday, I started having problems with it seeming to forget where I was. By that I mean I might be scrolling doen a page with the mouse scroller, and after a few turns the browser drops out of scroll mode by itself.

Even worse, it has been dropping out of "write" mode all over the place as I'm trying to post replies to threads, both here and on other forums.

It's a free browser, of course, and they admit there are bugs getting into it when they add upgrades. I guess there are help forums but these seem to be advise from other users, not really Firefox personell. In other words, there doesn't seem to be anyone in a position of responsibility to complain to, or anyone whose job it is to help you find a solution.

Anyone else have these Firefox problems?

Do you have several pages loading at once?
What might be happening is Firefox has an annoying way of focusing a page when it completes loading, so if you're a heavy surfer like me and have a dozen different pages loading at a time, the browser keeps switching the window focus to the other screens as they finish loading...

I may have a couple/three pages open behind the the one I'm working on, but in all cases there's no loading going on when this happens.

I'm not totally sure it is a Firefox problem, but it started happening after I downloaded it. The computer came with Internet Explorer and free AOL for three months. I pitched the AOL after a problem arose that their tech support couldn't solve, and switched to Netscape. This seems OK.

I guess I don't really understand the relationship between ISP's and browsers. It seems I'm not able to get rid of Internet Explorer since that's what I had when I signed up for Netscape, or something to that effect. So IE is still there in some way, shape, or form, even though I'm browsing around with Firefox, and I can't eject the IE. (I think I've tried to delete it twice now.)

This is the first real computer I've ever had. Previously I got onto the web with WebTV, which is astonishingly simple by comparison. But, of course, there's alot of things you can't do with it, and the image on the screen is really bad by comparison. Anyway, there's a million things about which I haven't a clue with regards to real computers. I'm actually just guessing this is a Firefox problem.

Well, IE is close to impossible to get rid of, and is essentially a part of the Windows system now. In fact, there are a lot of programs out there that require it to be installed so they will run. Personally I just kind of ignore it though - only use it on the rare occassion where I run across a site that won't work with FF (which, more often than not, is one of Yahoo!'s sites. Lazy-ass Yahoo programmers :P )

I've actually never specifically experienced the problems you're talking about with FF though, so I'm just kind of grasping at straws with the above idea.

Scooty, are you on a laptop?

Do you have several pages loading at once?
What might be happening is Firefox has an annoying way of focusing a page when it completes loading, so if you're a heavy surfer like me and have a dozen different pages loading at a time, the browser keeps switching the window focus to the other screens as they finish loading...- Only if you open pages in a new window - which is kind of moronic :P Use the tabs!

... there doesn't seem to be anyone in a position of responsibility to complain to, or anyone whose job it is to help you find a solution.




Welcome to open source software :) ... Linux / open source crap like firefox sucks :)


Sorry, I do not run FF .... not sure what could cause the problems you are having w/ it. probably nothing you are doing wrong.

I dont have those problems with FF. maybe they just did an update thats not working correctly yet. but yea FF has weird things sometimes. my friend simply couldnt install it on his pc at all, it just didnt work. still, the good things of FF beat the bad. not having to use IE is good.

double triple etc

You want to complain about firefox, do it at the forums they have.

FF is so far beyond IE it really isn't a question. Ask any webdesigner if he'd stop designing for IE if not for the fact that IE is used by so many, and he'll tell you yes without even thinking :P

Scooty, are you on a laptop?
Yup.
- Only if you open pages in a new window - which is kind of moronic :P Use the tabs!
'splain these "tabs" if you would. I saw mention of them, but have been ignoring them as much as possible, since their existence surprised me, and I had a bad reaction to them as just one more GD thing someone was throwing at me to learn all of a sudden.

My problem has strangely disappeared of late. It may have had something to do with trying to remove IE. At one point, though, when I was trying to post something, I inexplicably found myself on a different Firefox "tab" and don't know what I did to cause the switch.

If using the tabs makes FF work better, I suppose I should get the hang of them.

I never use tabs... its faster, because insead of loading a whole new page, it opens in the same page, different tab.
just click right on a link, and choose 'open in tab'. or go to extra, options, advanced, and change that links are automatically opened in tabs.

I never use tabs... its faster, because insead of loading a whole new page, it opens in the same page, different tab.
just click right on a link, and choose 'open in tab'. or go to extra, options, advanced, and change that links are automatically opened in tabs.
I get it: you click right on the next thing you're going to, click "new tab" and it starts keeping track of things by tabs up underneath the toolbar.

Edit: looks like you have a maximum of about eight you can have going at once.

Scooty, are you on a laptop?
- Only if you open pages in a new window - which is kind of moronic :P Use the tabs!

Trust me.. I'm a total tab-wh0re... and it still does it.

Scooty and Shadoglare - click tools (on the top bar thing), then click advanced and deselect "select new tabs opened from links". You might also want to turn on "begin searching when you begin typing" - it means that if you start writing without being in a text-box, you'll start searching on the text of the site you're on (use F3 to go between search results), real handy for digging through info.

Yup.- Then, chances are you're hitting the mousepad thing with your thumbs or something, and that this is why you keep dropping out of write mode.

'splain these "tabs" if you would. I saw mention of them, but have been ignoring them as much as possible, since their existence surprised me, and I had a bad reaction to them as just one more GD thing someone was throwing at me to learn all of a sudden.

My problem has strangely disappeared of late. It may have had something to do with trying to remove IE. At one point, though, when I was trying to post something, I inexplicably found myself on a different Firefox "tab" and don't know what I did to cause the switch.

If using the tabs makes FF work better, I suppose I should get the hang of them.- It's like Oki said - just like opening new windows. If you use a mouse with a click wheel or a middle button, try mid-clicking links.

Also, there's no limit of how many tabs you can have open that I know of, I currently have about thirteen of them :hmm:

oh and theres a tab extention too, go to extra-extentions- more extentions, and look up extentions for tab browsing. they give you more options. not sure about the max. 8 tabs, but Im sure theres a way to change that to more tabs.

Scooty and Shadoglare - click tools (on the top bar thing), then click advanced and deselect "select new tabs opened from links". You might also want to turn on "begin searching when you begin typing" - it means that if you start writing without being in a text-box, you'll start searching on the text of the site you're on (use F3 to go between search results), real handy for digging through info.
'Kay, I'll try these.
- Then, chances are you're hitting the mousepad thing with your thumbs or something, and that this is why you keep dropping out of write mode.
Possible, I suppose.

- It's like Oki said - just like opening new windows. If you use a mouse with a click wheel or a middle button, try mid-clicking links.
Yeah, I have one of those mice. I tried it and it worked well.
Also, there's no limit of how many tabs you can have open that I know of, I currently have about thirteen of them :hmm:
When I tried, that time, to add a ninth, the first eight disappeared, never to be found again. Must've been some freak thing.

i like using firefox better, but i do have problems sometimes. i use it at home on a powerbook g4 and at work on a PC and there are still bugs. THat being said, i will never EVER go back. the tabbed brwosing and extensions are too money.