I get scarted every time Firefox has a new version... I love Firefox but those guys are doing such a bad thing right now. Example: - firefox tabs position above all toolbars in Firefox 3.6( crazy feature, try to install 3-4 toolbars and than navigating in 10 opened tabs in the same firefox window... time lost) - remove the http from the address bar Firefox 7 ( I need to see that http, when I'm on my server, when I have an ip in the address bar and copy paste that ip, it takes only the number, not the hole http address....

I love firefox and I get scared about updating to a possible new Firefox version. God knows what new crazy time lost features will be added in version 8...

To restore the http prefix:

  1. Type about:config in the location bar and press Enter.
  2. Use the Filter box to search for trim
  3. Double-click or right-click on the browser.urlbar.trimURLs preference to change its value to false

oh boy...can you translate this for a dummie...please...? I have actually switched back to IE for now, but need firefox for certain add-ons....but it goes on strike eveny 4 minutes or so....

Windows 7...

do you have LESS than 16 gigs of PHYSICAL ram?

I was hoping this was going to say how to get the old version of Firefox (which was great). The current one is slower and I really don't like all the options being on a tab in the top corner when before they were easily accessible from the taskbar.

I might have discovered the solution without starting over with all your places and bookmarks.

Right after i installed 7.0.1 over a week ago,every 10-30 min When i would be watching videos online, it would freeze for 20-30 seconds. Firefox would say ( Not responding) both firefox and the plugin container process would be very large memory files. I tried to go back to Firefox 5.0. No avail it would still freeze.I tried to disable the plugin container . no good. I tried to adjust memory or cache or plugin settings in “about:config”.Nothing fixed it!

I finally discovered why my Firefox 7.01 was periodic hanging fix. It is something to do with some of your personal files. download this this add on and install it https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/places-maintenance/

or you can Google "places maintenance Firefox"

After you install the add on, restart Firefox.go to "tools", then "add ons" and then click “extensions” tab ,then click' options" on the "places maintenance" entry. choose "ALL' or just "expire" and hit "execute", then wait until its done., restart Firefox. should be fine then and all my bookmarks, customizations ,settings, and history stays untouched!

After i did this my Firefox did not freeze once for over 3 days straight. Might not work for everyone. I already read that Mozilla is aware of the problem and are working on a fix it in the full version of 8( the 8 beta did not fix the problem for me) . But they said this is a good temporary fix at least,( might be permanent)

For me at least ,Firefox works fine in 7 now. perfect actually.And many people i saw on similar forums had similar problems.

Enjoy. Hope this helped