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I’ve had a variety of problems with version 2.0.0.4 of Firefox on a variety of computers, such as having no browser window open but if you try to launch Firefox it says “Firefox is already running but is not yet running”, meaning I have to use explorer or reboot the computer until it decides to respond.
Another problem I saw once was firefox’s popup blocker blocked a bunch of popups that I wanted to allow, and made a queue of them in the yellow bar, but even if I clicked “allow from…” or clicked on the individual windows, they wouldn’t come up. Restarting firefox though fixed that problem.
But the problem I’ve seen on multiple computers (not localized to one environment) is this: You enter in an address and hit enter and nothing happens. You click on the green “go” button and nothing happens. You switch windows or open a new window and enter an address and hit enter and nothing happens! Firefox is responsive to windows but not to the address bar.
I have mixed feelings about the way firefox forced updates on you – I’m sure you can turn this off, but it’s a little scary having the software download updates and update itself almost automatically. A little DNS spoofing and I think it would be pretty easy to trick firefox into installing malware. Also I like to wait a few days for people to talk about releases and if they’re buggy or not before installing them — in this case, the forced update seems pretty buggy.

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Siamese below remarks on how to turn off automatic updates. Yet ironically they fixed the problems I was having above with Firefox 2.0.0.6.

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