[pchelpers] Re: download problem

Hi Cy

> There is only one problem with Mozilla Firefox. Every time they upgrade
> the add ons seem to take a long time to get updated.  IE8 was not likely
> the problem since it worked for me.

Well, you don't have the add-ons in IE anyhow, so you probably can live
without them for a while whenever Firefox is updated.

And if it's an add-on that's important to you, there's a very simple
solution: don't update immediately/ automatically. When minor bugs 
(often) and especially when major bugs (rarely) are discovered in 
Firefox, Mozilla produces updates much faster than Microsoft does for 
Internet Explorer, so even if you wait a while before updating, you're 
still much better protected even when you wait weeks, months, and 
sometimes years before updating FF. And since Mozilla produces bugfixes 
so quickly, crackers almost never have time to or bother to write any 
malware that exploits the bug.

In FF, go to

tools < options < advanced < update

and choose either "ask me what i want to do" or if you choose 
"automatically..." at least also choose "warn me if this will disable 
any of my add-ons"

Very often you can get an update to the add-on before it's on the 
official Mozilla site by going to

tools < add-ons

and rightclicking on the add-on and choosing "visit home page". Once 
there, you might also want to give the developer a friendly reminder and 
perhaps even offer to donate something. Remember that most of the 
developers are non-professionals or are professionals who get no money 
for writing and updating this add-on and who have other jobs whose 
duties go first. If the add-on is so important to you, a small donation 
or at least a friendly request/reminder will probably help to convince 
the developer to update the add-on much sooner.


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