Stupid Firefox

[celticdragonfly]

I am having internet problems today.

First I couldn't get to webpages - and the weird thing was it was gradually growing worse. Online chat with the cable modem people, various tests, finally proves that aha, I can GET these pages - through IE. Not Firefox. Bloody. Rebooting and all that had been tried.

So I go off to try upgrading Firefox. I now have Firefox 2.0.

I HATE IT.

I can't figure things out. Firefox used to be beautifully intuitive. Now I open stuff in tabs, but clicking on tabs won't let me into them! And there's no red X to close tabs. I can figure out some workarounds - using CTRL-TAB to cycle through tabs, and right clicking on a tab and getting an option to close it - but these are clunky annoying difficult workarounds.

I don't know what to do now. I am frustrated and wondering what I am going to have to end up doing.

Posting from IE, yuck.

Comments

[soldiergrrrl.livejournal.com]

Go scroll through pecunium. He had some of the same stuff, but managed to figure out a way around it I can't remember if he had to reload an older version or not.

I didn't have any problems when it upgraded.

Stupid Firefox

[rlseiver.livejournal.com]

I had a similar problem after upgrading Java. Solution was to go to "Add or Remove Programs" and uninstall every version of Java that I could find, then re-boot, then install a new copy of Java directly from the web, then re-boot again. Upgrading over a copy that's already corrupted can just lead to more grief.

Posting from IE, yuck.

I feel your pain :-(

[faxpaladin.livejournal.com]

No problems here, either (on the Windows laptop). Dunno...

[archangelbeth]

Eugh.

Hrm.

Any hope that there are preferences that will set things back to the way you want them?

[taral.livejournal.com]

The easiest way to fix that when upgrading to Firefox 2.0 is to remove your preferences file. Then you'll get the Firefox defaults, which includes working tabs and red X's in sane places.