patrickjdempsey wrote:If you are getting a notification to download Flash... it's because the version "you've already got" is no longer current.
There is also a widely reported problem with the Adobe Down Load Manager which can make it seem like you installed the current version of Flash but it never actually installed. Unless you have manually installed Flash from a direct download link in the last few months, then it's still *possible* you have an out-of-date version.
Of course, slow-downs can also be caused by other processes and problems in the OS not related to Firefox at all. It seems like you would be far better served making your own thread asking nicely for assistance in getting your Firefox fixed up than attempting to pick fights with people who have absolutely no control over what happens over at Mozilla, and even less control over how your machine is performing.
As far as I'm aware it is, because I recall an update popping up quite recently.
I have, because this is a stand-in system for the time being that came to me with pretty much nothing. It would be reasonable to assume that it's been inactive for quite a few years, given the number of Windows updates it required and how out of date the installed programs were. So everything (or at least everything that I kept / that presented a problem) has been updated.
I don't require "assistance" at this juncture, thanks all the same. I addressed the issue from about:config. But before doing so, I wanted to read as much as I could about the issue, basically to ensure whether that was the best/only option. In what would've been the last thread I looked at on the subject, someone was at great pains to redirect people to this one, and linked to it several times. I chose to respond because of the nature of some of the posts here, which bluntly refused to even entertain the prospect of the feature having issues and seemed to revel in clubbing people over the head with their superior knowledge (whether real or imagined). If you consider people who don't like being patronised and sneered at to be 'picking fights', then that's your privilege. All it needed was a little acknowledgement that the feature has significant issues. Flash may play a major part, but it's not the only problem. Frankly it's a bit rich to blame it all on something which was there long before, too.
Five or six others from a relatively small online community elsewhere have reported the same issue. None of them are likely to come to somewhere like this to seek a solution - they'll just become disenchanted and switch to a different browser instead. Some of them wouldn't be able to remedy the situation even if they knew how to in fact, because of the way in which they access the internet in the first place. Put that into context across the whole spectrum of Firefox users, and there's going to be a significant number of people who are affected. Ignoring such issues is exactly why the likes of Symantec and Corel saw their reputations plummet. Why should I or others ever even need to contemplate switching to what would be in virtually every regard an inferior browser, after all? Nobody's suggesting that anyone here has "control over what happens over at Mozilla". But they're certainly not going to be influenced into addressing the issue when some seem to be so resolutely determined to deny the problem even exists, either.