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Dr Brain

I just finished letting the spyware part of firefox update itself to 1.0.1.

It downloaded some install program and put it on my desktop. WTF is up with that?

It then procedes to put 3 copies of a shortcut to firefox on my desktop. Those are new copies, my old shortcut is still there. That makes for a total of four shortcuts to firefox (if you can't count) and one install program.

This just proves how awful firefox is. I recommend that everyone switch to IE to avoid critical bugs such as this one. IE has proven itself over its life to be a highly stable, reliable and totally bug free system.

Long live Microsoft!
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CypherJF · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:40 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

o.O

I didn't have any problems w/ the installer..
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Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

Firefox is starting to piss me off. Updating to 1.0.1 cost me about 4 hours trying to install all my extensions again. None of them auto-updated, and some didn't exist for 1.0.1. Also my theme no longer exists, so I had to choose another. The new find toolbar on the bottom of the window sucks. Look at the Firefox bug forums. It seems there's no end in sight for problems.

Long live open source.
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CypherJF · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 12:54 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

hm, my theme and extensions worked :/ ... i guess im just lucky eh?

Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 1:59 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Firebird 0.6 is working fine for me still.

50% Packetloss · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 3:26 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I had the same thing with the 3 shortcuts on my computer. All my extentions worked though: the only main one I use is the google toolbar.
Still, this
http://secunia.com/product/4227/
is a lot better than this
http://secunia.com/product/11/

EdTheInvincible · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 8:17 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Now I use IE with prompt on everything. No spyware yet. :)
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Cyan~Fire · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 8:26 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

IE is the best browser ever. You never have to deal with setup problems because it installs itself! I mean, come on Firefox, get with the program!
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Solo Ace · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 12:39 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I really can't tell if you people are being sarcastic or not about IE, but whatever.

Anything with Google toolbars is bad.

Dr Brain · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 12:54 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I love firefox. I hate IE. Sorry for any confusion.

Phyran · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 12:56 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

he was being sarcastic...comparing trivial-ass little bugs that Firefox has to huge, gaping ugly fucked up idiotic bugs Internet Explorer has

...the Firefox install stuff has always sucked...bah, I think they have too much corporate backing, but there's no better alternative atm

lp_street_soldier · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 1:32 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

And just what the hell has schizophrenia got to do with this forum? Don't even start to take this piss outta them people. My cousin is

But a fucking excellent computer man...

Oh yeah, GO FIREFOX (when you keep up

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Dr Brain · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 1:34 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Assassin2684 · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 3:39 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

No offence but when i used IE i got so many pop ups and now i havent gotten oen sence i got firefox

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

You don't get around much, then, Assassin - not even Firefox has good popup blocking.

D1st0rt · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 6:16 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

haha you scared me for a second there doc with the Long Live M$ stuff, totally out of character. I didn't get any additional icons when I installed because I unchecked the "add icon" boxes. I did see the installer on my desktop, though.
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Solo Ace · Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 5:24 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I haven't seen a single ad/popup since I use The Proxomitron.
It's an ugly program, but it works pretty good, and because it's running on another "slave" machine I don't really see it's there.

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

some day someone will code up something for some browser that just literally does not allow popups if you don't want them, but Firefox is doing okay at the moment

CypherJF · Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 12:46 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Never seen a pop up w/ Firefox.

and I love it. mwah.

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 3:31 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

With a little bit of customization, I have no problem with popups in the Mozilla Suite.

Pests · Novice Joined: Feb 24 2003 Posts: 84 Offline

There are some times when a popup isn't considered a popup.

Isn't this whole 1.0.1 release just to address the problem with characters in other languages being represented as english-like characters in firefox? I forgot what the term was called exactly but read about it somewhere.

Maverick · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 7:14 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

IE SUCKS
get over it, its true. Even microsoft stopped developing on it and will only release bug fixes. (Imagine the current IE still has hundreds bugs and security holes in it)

Firefox update consist of downloading the full new setup file then installing it and copying it over the old one. Worked fine with me, plus extensions.
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CypherJF · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 11:59 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Actually, they said that they're working on MSIE 7.0; but theres one part I couldn't remember, if it was only for Longhorn, or because of the issues at hand of Longhorn being delayed it'll be for XP.

Solo Ace · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:42 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject: