Ramblings of an old Doc

 

Mozilla will be rolling out the stable version of the Firefox Australis (Ff 29) next Tuesday.

If you don’t like it, there’s an extension called Classic Theme Restorer (imaginative name, eh?), which can be found here.

If you want a good explanation of differences and some features of Australis, you can find them here.

There’s another add on: The Fox, Only Better  which changes some interface elements but is a lot truer to Australis in appearance.

Anyway, just to keep you Firefox users up to date…by the way, with the new IE exploit, changing to Firefox is certainly a way around it.

Sources for this are in the links above.


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on May 01, 2014

starkers


Quoting HG_Eliminator, reply 27actually its up at the top center of the page to opt out of the scanner..

Really?  Don't recall seeing that when I did the update...
 

blame to Adobe ! IMO the delay is a marketing strategy  

on May 01, 2014

Actually? The middle panel in my Austalis opened in about 1 second [and, as always, I unchecked McAfee]. 

Not sure why yours took so much time, frankell.

on May 01, 2014

any way 1 or 2 seconds it's always a delay and IMO it's intentional,

well the 3 panels page layout recalls me the 3 shell game or the 3 cards monte,  as the Offer middle panel is starting hidden

and com-on the Offer comes already checked ! meanwhile you are focused on the "Install now" button also much bigger than the uncheck space

btw the "plugins check" link >  http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/ is also valid in all the Mozilla based browsers (PaleMoon, IcedDragon, SeaMonkey ecc.)

on May 01, 2014

frankell


Quoting starkers, reply 28

Quoting HG_Eliminator, reply 27actually its up at the top center of the page to opt out of the scanner..

Really?  Don't recall seeing that when I did the update...
 

blame to Adobe ! IMO the delay is a marketing strategy  

Reduced 26%Original 1180 x 1689

You're right, it wasn't there when the dialog box first appeared, nor was it visible by the time I clicked 'install'... which was at least 2 to 3 seconds to check out what I was getting.  Unfortunately, I didn't wait quite long enough. So yeah, I agree that it is dishonest to say the least... scam fits the bill more accurately, though.

Thing is I got rid of the scanner and I won't be fooled into getting it again

on May 01, 2014

Installed and working, along with Classic Theme Restorer.

 

Seems ok so far...

on May 02, 2014

well I just updated my previous Stylish style "Save the AddonBar!!" with "Restore the AddonBar!"

http://userstyles.org/styles/101057/restore-the-addonbar-in-australis

hope you like it !

on May 02, 2014

Australis really is more customizable than prior versions of ff.

on May 03, 2014

DrJBHL
Australis really is more customizable than prior versions of ff.

Yes it is, and now that it is playing well on my lil 11" note book I'm rather happy with the latest version of FF.  I haven't messed with themes or customising it as yet - real life issues keep intervening - but I will get around to it.  I do like to have a desktop theme where all the components are matching or way too similar to notice a difference, and being FF didn't always play well, it looks like this latest version will be just the ticket.

BTW, Doc, a major development has occurred here, will PM you with more shortly.

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