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    From Davey@2:250/1 to All on Wednesday, October 16, 2024 09:14:22
    I am using Firefox 113.0.2. I am being prodded to upgrade to
    131.0.3 Firefox Release of October 14, 2024.
    Knowing that some earlier upgrades of Firefox have resulted in horrid appearance and behaviour, is it worth allowing this,or is it best to be avoided, in readers' opinions?

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    Davey.


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  • From Davey@2:250/1 to All on Saturday, October 19, 2024 14:17:27
    On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 09:14:22 +0100
    Davey <davey@example.invalid> wrote:

    I am using Firefox 113.0.2. I am being prodded to upgrade to
    131.0.3 Firefox Release of October 14, 2024.
    Knowing that some earlier upgrades of Firefox have resulted in horrid appearance and behaviour, is it worth allowing this,or is it best to
    be avoided, in readers' opinions?


    The fact that there are no messages of unhappiness with ver. 131.0.3,
    leads me to conclude that there are no bad experiences out there.

    Of course, there could be no experiences at all, or they could all be favourable.

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    Davey.


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  • From FP@2:250/1 to All on Sunday, November 17, 2024 10:50:25
    On 16/10/2024 09:14, Davey wrote:
    I am using Firefox 113.0.2. I am being prodded to upgrade to
    131.0.3 Firefox Release of October 14, 2024.
    Knowing that some earlier upgrades of Firefox have resulted in horrid appearance and behaviour, is it worth allowing this,or is it best to be avoided, in readers' opinions?

    If by "horrid appearance and behaviour" you mean the tabs are floating
    so they look like buttons, making it more difficult to identify which
    tab is open, you'll have that. And (at least on Linux Mint 21.3 with the Clearlooks Phoenix theme) the scrollbars in Firefox don't follow the
    theme, they stay skinny things that are difficult to get a mouse onto.
    But upgrading is still a good idea as there will have been security
    updates and you can live with UI ugliness more easily than with a
    compromised system.

    FP

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  • From Davey@2:250/1 to All on Sunday, November 17, 2024 12:24:33
    On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 10:50:25 +0000
    FP <frank+nin@CnocDeas.com> wrote:

    On 16/10/2024 09:14, Davey wrote:
    I am using Firefox 113.0.2. I am being prodded to upgrade to
    131.0.3 Firefox Release of October 14, 2024.
    Knowing that some earlier upgrades of Firefox have resulted in
    horrid appearance and behaviour, is it worth allowing this,or is it
    best to be avoided, in readers' opinions?

    If by "horrid appearance and behaviour" you mean the tabs are
    floating so they look like buttons, making it more difficult to
    identify which tab is open, you'll have that. And (at least on Linux
    Mint 21.3 with the Clearlooks Phoenix theme) the scrollbars in
    Firefox don't follow the theme, they stay skinny things that are
    difficult to get a mouse onto. But upgrading is still a good idea as
    there will have been security updates and you can live with UI
    ugliness more easily than with a compromised system.

    FP

    There are developments. This nagging was always on one particular site,
    I believe the one reached when I follow a regular link to a Facebook
    'Joke of the Day'-type page. But when I checked with the Ubuntu
    updates, the version of Firefox that I have is the current version for
    my distribution. So it seems to be Facebook on Firefox that is
    incorrectly telling me this. I now ignore it, I would like to find a
    way to stop it happening, but just clicking the little 'x' does the job.
    But thanks for replying.

    --
    Davey.


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