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« on: January 20, 2012, 05:22:42 AM »

I guess the time is coming when I'm going to have to switch from Firefox 3.6 to the latest release. I've tried the newer versions a couple of times and kept going back to 3.6, with which I'm very comfortable. Who here as made the "upgrade" (I hesitate to use that word :) ) and what do you think? Speed aside, are you happy with the new version? Comfortable with it? Any issues with incompatible add ons?
 
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« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2012, 05:26:10 AM »

Did the same as you so i'll also be interested in the responses...
(.0 lasted 3 days on my Main rig and i reverted to 3.6...been there ever since.
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« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2012, 05:32:10 AM »

Yep, exactly. Problem is they are going to cease supporting 3.6 soon so it obviously won't be updated with security patches.
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« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2012, 05:35:27 AM »

Pretty much no difference on the visual side of things, except the new Firefox button in the top left corner where all the options are now located.

I can't answer for addons as I don't use any except WOT and Garmin Communicator.

As regards speed, I haven't noticed any difference in loading times, but then again I'm not one of these speed-freaks where 10 milliseconds makes a massive difference. :)
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« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2012, 11:25:49 AM »

Any issues with incompatible add ons?

Don't be surprised if you see a notice, when upgrading with later versions of Firefox, that one or more add-ons may/will not work immediately after you upgraded Firefox because the add-ons haven't been updated yet to be compatible with the latest version of Firefox.  In other words, the add-on developers sometimes lag a bit behind the latest releases of Firefox, but they usually catch up within a short time.
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« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2012, 11:37:27 AM »

Yes, I'm aware of that thanks. I have the add-on compatibility reporter installed, which will help with some of them.
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« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2012, 12:06:53 PM »

MRTech Toolkit works well on letting all addons work...updated or not...
Works 98% of the time while waiting on updates for addons.
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« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2012, 12:21:11 PM »

I have MRTech installed and didn't realize that was one of the options. Thanks.
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« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2012, 01:11:32 PM »

Anytime Captain...
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« Reply #9 on: January 20, 2012, 01:39:00 PM »

Pretty much no difference on the visual side of things, except the new Firefox button in the top left corner where all the options are now located.

The first thing I did when the look changed was install the "Firefox 3 theme for Firefox 4+"

http://ffaddons.game-point.net/ff3ff4/



I have quite a mix of addons

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« Reply #10 on: January 20, 2012, 01:41:56 PM »

Cool - I'm going to use that. And I'm glad to see Tab Mix Plus works.
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« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2012, 10:51:39 AM »

Been using the latest 9.0/9.1 for a while now. Works fine.

If Tab Mix Plus ever doesn't work there is usually a Dev-Build that does. TMP Builds

Pretty much no difference on the visual side of things, except the new Firefox button in the top left corner where all the options are now located.

You can disable that and have the old menu back.

Right click an empty space next to the orange button and click Menu Bar. ;)

I can't answer for addons as I don't use any except WOT and Garmin Communicator.

I use quite a few and all of them work fine with FF 9.1. The ones that didn't work I replaced with similar ones from different authors and in a few cases are better than what I was using. Extension List Dumper gives compatibility info plus a lot of other info and puts your add-ons into text and other formats for easy list copying/pasting/saving.

Application: Firefox 9.0.1 (20111220165912)
Operating System: WINNT (x86-msvc)

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« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2012, 11:32:41 AM »

I also have a bunch, but the three most important ones for me are Tab Mix Plus, Colorful Tabs and Google Toolbar. I now know the first two will work fine, and I've read a workaround for Google. I'll probably give it a go in the next few days. Thanks to everyone who responded :)
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« Reply #13 on: January 21, 2012, 11:39:41 AM »

and I've read a workaround for Google.

Google Toolbar - Requires Firefox 2.0 - 4.0.* http://www.google.com/toolbar/ff/index.html

I use a lot of Google services also but prefer to use the Google Shortcuts and the Google Bookmarks for Firefox add-ons instead of a toolbar.
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« Reply #14 on: January 21, 2012, 03:00:09 PM »

Okay, just upgraded my primary system and so far so good. Thanks ST - without your suggestion about the theme I'd still hate it (couldn't stand that blue / gray color of the toolbars).

EF - Google toolbar DOES work - just need to make a couple of changes / tweaks first. See these two links:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/
http://www.itsabhik.com/tech/how-to-enable-google-toolbar-in-firefox-5-10.html
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