Comments on: All about Firefox 3.5, available now

By: Björn

Björn — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:40:09 +0000

> does anyone know how to get them back?

At least In FF 3.6, and I suppose 3.5 if you are still running that, pressing the Alt key will restore the menu-bar temporarily.

By: Luis

Luis — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:20:42 +0000

Well, this was my fault, i was playing with disabling the toolbars, and i disabled all of them even the menu bar, and now i don’t know hot to get them back, the only bar right now i the tab one, does anyone know how to get them back?

By: Sydnee

Sydnee — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:20:05 +0000

Fire fox isnot responding when ever i go on youtube, and its starting to piss me off.

By: Ely

Ely — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:17:26 +0000

Pls help! I updated 3.5.7 version of FF a while ago then when I tried clicking a link into new a tab, it suddenly stopped doing it. While before I update, I don’t have problems like that. What am I going to do? Pls help!

By: EdV

EdV — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:56:28 +0000

What an annoying problem. Un-installing the Yahoo Toolbar fixed it for me.
Thanks for the tip.

By: Sake-chan

Sake-chan — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:04:18 +0000

I also had the “right click” issue, and uninstalling Yahoo Toolbar did the trick for me, I’m so glad I only had to put up with that for an hour. Although… I kind of would like that toolbar back….
>.>

By: KMGuru

KMGuru — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:47:01 +0000

My mouse lost its Right Click functionality with ver 3.5.7

The program automatically upgraded itself today and I lost the right click in the window. No Yahoo toolbar. System Win2000 Prof.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:07:00 +0000

I am having the same exact problem. Can’t right click and everytime anyone signs out of their email the screen just goes white and freezes. It had to be closed out then it takes about 10 minutes to restart! Didn’t have any problems until the upgrade.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:38:49 +0000

I’ve been Using Firefox as a tool to develop JavaScript for college. I just recently had to create an rss feed and found that when Firefox accesses rss feeds via JavaScript httpRequest and php headers, Firefox freezes.

It has been apparent to me for some time that sites such as Sourceforge.net which use scripts for file downloads, causes Firefox to freeze. I have also noticed that Firefox will tend to freeze on certain sites for no apparent reason. I am of the opinion that these freezes are due to the JavaScript httpRequest which I have found to cause freezes.

SATovey

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:09:25 +0000

Yep, since downloading 3.5.5, I’ve been having some of the problems mentioned above: PC freezing, programs not responding to Task Manager for ages and sometimes in desperation I turn the machine off at the plug (naughty, I know) and start it up again. It’s fine for a short while, then it gets worse. I’ve tried reverting to the last version and and am now on the new beta 3.6 but still the same issues. I’m wondering about clearing my hard drive (which I usually do once a year anyway) and re-installing everything, but fear from the comments above I might not solve anything. IE – which I’ve hardly every used – seems fine. So it could be goodbye Mozilla after five years.

By: Randy

Randy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:42:37 +0000

Patrick,

I know this post is several months late, but maybe it will help someone else who is having the same trouble.

Just something to try…This depends on what firewall, anti-virus, or internet security suite you are using and how it is set up. For example, my security suite uses a white list of certain programs that it “allows: to access the internet. Maybe you need to find a similar list of programs in your firewall and set it to allow the new version of Firefox? I had this same issue until I discovered I needed to allow the new Firefox permission to access the internet.

By: AlanT

AlanT — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:56:50 +0000

When will FF get fixed !!! After using FF for years happily I am now going to change because of the constant “Not Responding” problem.
I keep gong back and downloading the latest version (currently 3.5.5) and STILL the same problem.
I Firefox do not do something about this soon I will NOT bother downloading future versions in the hope the problem has been rectified

By: BjÃ¶rn

BjÃ¶rn — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:24:16 +0000

Have you read this thread: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=258366

By: George Avalos

George Avalos — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:21:21 +0000

Windows XP

Firefox 3.5.5 is terrible at keeping bookmarks. Every time I open FireFox, the bookmarks I had saved in the prior session are no longer there. I tried all the fixes that were recommended. these include checking to see if the files are read only or hidden, including deleting the SQ places, and SQ journal places, or whatever they’re called, files. None of these fixes work. I have uninstalled and installed FF several times. It keeps happening over and over.

Is anybody else having this problem? Is there a real solution?

Until I know for a fact it’s fixed, I’m going to have to return to Internet Explorer. You can open tabs in IE8, just like Firefox.

thanks

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:20:35 +0000

I am running FireFox 3.5.3 on XP SP3 with 1 Gig of ram.
My brother has Vista with 4 Gigs of ram.

FireFox freezes on my system and not on his system.

People that are having this problem should post how much ram they
have on their system. We may see a trend develop. I intend to upgrade my ram to the 4 Gig max my system will hold.

By: BjÃ¶rn

BjÃ¶rn — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:21:11 +0000

April try the following links:

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Bookmarks#Troubleshooting

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Lost+Bookmarks

“During normal usage of Firefox, you may discover that Firefox has apparently lost your bookmarks. In most cases, the bookmarks are not lost. This article discusses the main ways in which it can appear that your bookmarks are missing and explains how you can recover them. “

By: April

April — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:32:16 +0000

I was running firefox 2.o, I tried updating to version 3 a while back, and it would not work on my computer. So after a few tries, I just uninstalled it and kept 2.o. I have just updated firefox to version 3.5, and have lost all my bookmarks. This has never happened previously in any firefox updates. They were very important bookmarks, and now they’re somewhere in cyber world, floating around. I don’t understand why this has happened, I’ve tried many ways to restore my bookmarks or get them back, nothing is working.
Not happy. If I can’t find a way to get them back, then I’ll go back to using Internet Explorer or Google Chrome and I won’t recommend firefox to anybody again. Thanks a lot, firefox. This update is truly terrible.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:33:06 +0000

when i use firefox, i can access most websites but i cant access youtube. the loading bar at the side doesnt progress at all..anyone have the same problem? please reply :D

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:33:09 +0000

Yay for porn mode… was about time since the Internet pretty much for porn.

By: Miker

Miker — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:14:15 +0000

I had a major problem with Gmail after I upgraded to 3.5. If I check the box in Tools, Options, Warning Messages – Settings, for “I submit information that’s not encrypted”, then I would endlessly get:

“Security Warning:

The information you have entered is to be sent over an unencrypted connection and could easily be read by a third party.

Are you sure you want to continue sending this information?”

In addition Gmail shows an error ‘103′ at the top of the page and then you are stuck in wherever you are in Gmail; that is stuck in the Inbox, Sent Mail or Drafts.

However, just by un-checking the above noted box, the problem is resolved.

I am using Windows Vista 64bit Home Premium Edition with Service Pack 2 and Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3

By: Janitor Mann

Janitor Mann — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:59:57 +0000

Quit Messing around.
Seems, as with any software, once I have gotten used to it, have it running the way I want, and everything is fine, an “upgrade” is required that is impossible to use. The standard user doesn’t want to mess around with having to learn new software every year, and not having it work the same and look the same as the old. Firefox is no exception. I recommend waiting 3 to 5 years after new software of any sort comes out before installing. If the stupid web designers would stop “improving” (making unnecessary changes, it all worked FINE ten years ago) then software wouldn’t have to be improved either. I see NO reason to update from windows 2000 and I was hesitant to “upgrade” to that because everything changed. My word processing still works fine and LOOKS THE SAME, no reason to “improve” it. I really see very little need for updates.
I had a HELL of a time with firefox 3.0 and it’s BRAND new, NO reason I can see to change to 3.5 which, yes, I tried, and NO it doesn’t work, disabled all my add ons, does NOT work on pages on the internet, they should not release this until it is able to install with the option to have your program look and run exactly the same as versions before without the user having to learn or do anything.

By: jeff

jeff — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:43:02 +0000

Thank you for explaining that. I agree a stupid change for firefox.

By: jeff

jeff — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:33:53 +0000

Will drag-and-drop bookmarking be making a come back? It makes no sense to put this kind of work into such a nice program and get rid of one of the most useful tools. Please bring it back.

By: David Nicol

David Nicol — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:12:22 +0000

Firefox 3.5.# doesn’t run on my machine, but then neither does 3.0.14. All the previous ones do. It gives the same error each time “The instruction at “0×5a928150″ referenced memory at “0×5a928150″. The memory could not be “written”.
I have seen this error mentioned elsewhere but no fixes, other people get it but intermittently. It happens in safe mode (on both versions after 3.0.13) Running standard XP MCE with no firefox extensions etc. Reinstallation makes no difference.
Had same problem with IE 8. Microsoft sent me a batch file which fixed it, by reregistering variou s .dll etc but it doesn’t seem to work for Firefox. I guess that is the end of Firefox for me as I have posted on forums but got no replies

By: Ralph

Ralph — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:39:03 +0000

When I downloaded the new version and cut out my old custom charcoal theme add on, my right click came back.