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I am not happy with the changes in recent versions of Firefox

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Hey Guys and Girls in the 'Development Team' Have you noticed that the vastest majority of Firefox users are looking for ways to return the interface to the one they know and love. Clearly this has been ignored. The changes have taken away all of the features people have been used to using for yonks, just to make it more geeky and user unfriendly to newbie's & 'old folks' like my 86year old mum.

deleted I am probably wasting my time, I guess will need to start looking for different browser technology to include in my teaching as well as my recommendations to business clientele.

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Hey Guys and Girls in the 'Development Team' Have you noticed that the vastest majority of Firefox users are looking for ways to return the interface to the one they know and love. Clearly this has been ignored. The changes have taken away all of the features people have been used to using for yonks, just to make it more geeky and user unfriendly to newbie's & 'old folks' like my 86year old mum. ''deleted'' I am probably wasting my time, I guess will need to start looking for different browser technology to include in my teaching as well as my recommendations to business clientele. ''edited by a moderator - [https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Forum+and+chat+rules+and+guidelines Forum Rules and Guidelines]''

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The following been posted here many, many, many times.

How to make Firefox 4/5/6 look like Firefox 3.6:

Firefox 3 Theme for Firefox 4: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-3-theme-for-firefox/


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Include this in your "teaching as well as ... recommendations to business clientele." Keep your other applications with plugins updated.

Not related to your question, but...

You need to update some plug-ins:

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