(OT) Mozilla Firefox Advice

I mentioned I had to replace my PC. Now I'm trying to install Mozilla
Firefox (browser). I cannot figure out how to install this without it
asking me to d/l all this other add-on stuff I don't want.

I'll keep looking around but if anyone has a quick link to just your basic
Firefox installation, I'd appreciate it.

Jill

In article , "jmcquown" wrote:
I cannot figure out how to install this without it
asking me to d/l all this other add-on stuff I don't want.

I don't recall such prompting - can you cite one or two of the items it
suggests you install???

I certianly install AdBlock Plus and FlashBlock when I install Firefox, but
that's my own choice. Hearing a couple of specifics might give me some
insight on your installation's behavior.

Art

On 7/30/2012 6:53 PM, jmcquown wrote:
I mentioned I had to replace my PC. Now I'm trying to install Mozilla
Firefox (browser). I cannot figure out how to install this without it
asking me to d/l all this other add-on stuff I don't want.

I'll keep looking around but if anyone has a quick link to just your
basic Firefox installation, I'd appreciate it.

Jill

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jmcquown wrote:
I mentioned I had to replace my PC. Now I'm trying to install Mozilla
Firefox (browser). I cannot figure out how to install this without it
asking me to d/l all this other add-on stuff I don't want.

I'll keep looking around but if anyone has a quick link to just your
basic Firefox installation, I'd appreciate it.

Jill

I have sort of the same problem - I've been using Firefox in an older
version, but suddenly it INSISTS upon offering me the newer version, and
I must quickly click on "no thanks, I'll risk it" before the download
starts. (If I don't, I must reinstall the "exec" option of the older
version, which is fortunately still on my computer.) It's a real PITA,
and I'm not sure what else I can do about it.

In article , wrote:

I have sort of the same problem - I've been using Firefox in an older
version, but suddenly it INSISTS upon offering me the newer versio

I'm curious why you wouldn't want the newer version, but if you go to Tools /
Options, go to the Advanced tab, and select the third tab "Update", there's a
radio button to select various update options. You'd check the bottommost
button, "Never check for updates".

Art

I have sort of the same problem - I've been using Firefox in an older
version, but suddenly it INSISTS upon offering me the newer versio
I'm curious why you wouldn't want the newer version

Because they keep offering versions that don't run on my system
(MacOS Tiger - any Version 3 of Firefox works, Version 4 doesn't).

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Arthur Shapiro wrote:

In article , wrote:

I have sort of the same problem - I've been using Firefox in an older
version, but suddenly it INSISTS upon offering me the newer versio

I'm curious why you wouldn't want the newer version

I'm not speaking for Evelyn, but there are times when I don't want a new
version of software either. Maybe the new version has had a feature I use
a lot removed (this has happened, I don't know if it was with Firefox, but
definitely with other programs).

And if someone has an older computer with insufficient memory to run a
new version, but doesn't have the money to buy another computer *or* memory,
then they *can't* update. This happened to me with iTunes during a period
when I was unemployed and fairly broke. I got a notice to upgrade iTunes,
so I said yes. Then it told me I didn't have enough memory to run the new
version, so I couldn't install it. (Or else maybe I did install it and it
wouldn't run properly - this was a number of years ago.) So after that, I
declined all offers to upgrade, until finally I couldn't access the iTunes
store unless I had a newer version. So I bought mp3s from Amazon for a
while, until I got a job and could buy another computer.

but if you go to Tools /
Options, go to the Advanced tab, and select the third tab "Update", there's a
radio button to select various update options. You'd check the bottommost
button, "Never check for updates".


Does this work as well as the "Don't show this message again" checkbox that's
on the dialog box asking you to update Java, or whatever? I always check that
box when declining, but it still keeps on asking.

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Does this work as well as the "Don't show this message again" checkbox that's
on the dialog box asking you to update Java, or whatever? I always check that
box when declining, but it still keeps on asking.

Sometimes that's impossible to eliminate. It seems to me that the last
time I updated (and it IS a good thing - Java gets lots of hacking
abuse) it offered me the opportunity to turn off future updates. I also
have a freeware program that alerts me whenever something tries to
install itself for running every time, and of course I forbade jusched
(the java update scheduler) from running, not to mention that obnoxious
Apple QTTask (or whatever it is) that is constantly checking for updates
to rarely-used Quick Time. Ditto for Adobe updater. (The program is
called Mike Lin's Startup Monitor.)

There's supposed to be an update tab on the java console (reachable from
Control Panel, if not in your tray) but I certainly don't have it,
perhaps because of the other stuff I'd done. I haven't seen a Java
update prompt in quite a while.

Art

Jack Campin wrote:
I have sort of the same problem - I've been using Firefox in an older
version, but suddenly it INSISTS upon offering me the newer versio
I'm curious why you wouldn't want the newer version

Because they keep offering versions that don't run on my system
(MacOS Tiger - any Version 3 of Firefox works, Version 4 doesn't).

Is Tiger 10.4? I don't have a Mac, though I plan to get one, so I don't
remember the sequence of big cats.

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Adrian

Arthur Shapiro wrote:
In article , wrote:

I have sort of the same problem - I've been using Firefox in an older
version, but suddenly it INSISTS upon offering me the newer versio

I'm curious why you wouldn't want the newer version,

Because it doesn't really download properly, and I am left with no
browser at all (or rather, one that refuses to WORK)!