"RoseGarden" - - - - - - - from - nscave

Both Firefox and Thunderbird rely on extensions so users can customize each to their own personal preferences. That is what makes them so good, along with the fact they are more secure and just plain work better.If you are using these two programs regularly, you will find your own favourite extensions. As with a lot of things it is better to not have too many and stick to a chosen few.

What I find is happening though is the developers keep working on them and adding so called improvements. You open Firefox or Thunderbird and suddenly it says "update available" and the instinct is to click add, because newer is better right? Well not always.

The first thing you know your favourite add on has become a bloated piece of crap that not only ruins the extension capabilities, but often slows down or messes up the entire program. For example PicLens was once a great addition to Firefox. Now it just causes problems and slows things down. More recently ThunderBrowse for Thunderbird was upgraded from a very useful add on to something that barely works and won't show images and graphics like it used to.

My suggestion is not to click 'update now' when the offer arrives. Instead, go to the actual site of the extension and right click download. Then install the extension by clicking Add-ons>Install and browsing to the downloaded file. That way when you get the new improved version and it turns out to be new backward bloated version, you have the original backed up in your files and can uninstall the new and return to the old.

To bad this has to happen, but when users request additional features the developers often try to comply to keep their product successful, but often don't succeed.

-=One Day At A Time=-

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