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Anyone tried Firefox 10?

Muergo
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Posted January 23, 2012 at 11:25PM

Firefox 10 is now up to Beta 5 and I was thinking of switching as FF9 keeps crashing and autorestarting, a problem I had with FF7.

Strangely I'm having the same trouble with Internet Explorer, the PC is very clean, all the security has been run and Secunia gives 100%.

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buteman

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Posted January 23, 2012 at 11:36PM

If it is this one you mean Firefox 10 Aurora,I tried it but got fed up with the constant updates and went back to the 9.0.1 version.

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Muergo

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Posted January 23, 2012 at 11:53PM

Update doesn't say anything about Aurora. Just listed as 10 Beta 5, from what I see of previous issues they seem to get up to Beta6 and then get launched as a full update.

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buteman

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Posted January 24, 2012 at 1:00AM

Ok.looks like it may have been a different version of Firefox that I was using so cannot comment on the beta version although it looks Ok with better protection against nasties.

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Input Overload

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Posted January 24, 2012 at 9:35AM

FF isn't that unstable & should not keep crashing, I run a derivative of FF 9.01 - Pale Moon & in weeks of running it I can't remember it ever crashing.

The fact that IE does the same thing would seem to point to issues in your install. Have you run a scan with the free version of Malwarebytes Malwarebytes Site on checking others PC's I often find this anti-malware program often finds problems that eludes other AV's.

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cocteau48

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Posted January 24, 2012 at 9:51AM

I have been running FF10 throughout its program of beta releases on my test laptop. Absolutely no problems whatsoever.

I initially installed it to keep a check on the compatibility of by add-ons and thus far all are working - with the exception of the Evernote Web Clipper which is always the last to catch up.

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Salut

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Posted January 24, 2012 at 4:15PM

I switch to FF about a year ago and keep up to date with the Beta releases. safe to say absolutely no problems. I used to use Opera but gave up...

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Muergo

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Posted January 25, 2012 at 1:16PM

Right OK will switch to FF10 Beta 5 as Firefox 9.01 still going through fading misty screen saying "Firefox is not responding". Maybe it's one of my addons but then it wouldn't happen with I.E. as well, alternatively I might have too many windows open.

Can't possibly be a bug as all zappers have been run , Malwarebytes, SAS etc in addition to Windows7 security essentials and checked with ASC. All show nil result apart from Ad cookies which are deleted regularly.

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Muergo

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Posted January 25, 2012 at 1:25PM

Today it has jumped to FF beta 6 so must be nearly there, I have downloaded it, looks a bit smarter than before, no problems with any of my add ons.

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iscanut2

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Posted January 25, 2012 at 2:56PM

I have been running the version 10 betas without any problems at all.

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