<p>Calmom, I had minimal plug-ins, and the ones I had I’m not sure how I “got” them. Another of my issues with Firefox was the incessant clamor to add more plug-ins, update the ones that were there, etc. Frankly, if I had the motivation I’d have figured out how to disable them all and kept it that way. </p>
<p>But I just don’t have the motivation to spend the time to figure our how to get it to stop doing things I never really wanted it to do in the first place.</p>
<p>I don’t know how to handle the plug ins either and the queries are tiresome. I just want scaled down Firefox that doesn’t hang when I open a PDF file.</p>
<p>My Firefox seems okay, thought my entire system seems a bit slow! I have always experienced glitches on Chrome, especially if I leave my computer for a couple of hours and come back, all the screens on all the tabs will be blank, and then they are either extremely slow to reload or the pages just sit there and don’t reload.</p>
<p>Safari has the memory footprint problem where it grows memory usage if you leave it up. It’s probably due to memory leaks. Chome may have inherited that problem from Webkit (the common root of Safari and Chrome).</p>
<p>I am on D’s MacPro. Is the version you are referring to an automatic update? If not, should I tell her not to do it when prompted? </p>
<p>Sorry, computer illiterate here.</p>
<p>Removed Firefox last night and installed Chrome. Now I have to figure out what to do with it. Not intuitive to a non-techie like myself.</p>
<p>Okay, first question about Chrome: where’s the dropdown window (or equivalent) to see each of the sites I’ve visited in the current session so I don’t have to use back arrow 25 times? Thanks all.</p>
<p>Firefox just crashed - runtime error of some sort. That happens more often than I would like - I guess once is more often than I would like.</p>
<p>@ Worrywart: The main window, the first window you see with the 9 boxes, under the bottom left one there’s something that says “Show full history” and you can click that. Hope that helps… It shows everything link, so I’m not sure that’s what you’re looking for. </p>
<p>You can also right click the back button (PC, I don’t know if they’ve made Chrome for Mac yet…) </p>
<p>Anyway, I started trying Google Chrome, and every time I use FF now, it’s so slow and I don’t remember it being that slow. I’m sticking with Chrome, it’s simpler anyway.</p>
<p>I am back to IE, it’s working well.</p>
<p>Thanks, rchhay.</p>
<p>Moved from 3.0 to 3.5 and 3 computers look good so far.</p>
<p>I run multiple versions of Firefox on most of my machines. When I want the most compatible versions, I usually use the official builds. When I want the best performance, I usually use my own builds. When I want plugin compatibility, I usually go with 3.0. There is a way to run multiple versions of Firefox at the same time but I usually have at least two systems on my desktop so I can always just move to another machine.</p>