have to upgrade?!!!

mr. weaver,

read the thing again. this is an upgrade to v2.xx. it costs you NOTHING! if you have v2.xx this is a simple, small upgrade to that version ONLY. it's FREE! your current version is only 'obsolete' until you do the upgrade. i forget what was added to v2.xx. i saw something on facebook about it this morning, but that's all it is, a small, FREE upgrade.

as for your other complaints, no one would have forced you to get the lifetime upgrades. i think you've got some misunderstandings about how all this works. it's really very simple; you buy a version at a given level, like the pro version of v2.00. every minor upgrade that comes out for that version is free...ALWAYS! it's only when going fr om a major version, like v1.xx, v2.xx or v3.xx to the next higher MAJOR version, that you're required to pay anything. but, you DONT have to do that. you DONT have to upgrade from one major version to another! yes, new filters made with a new version wont be available to you in the library, but you'll still have access to ALL of the ones made with your version or earlier!

now, i think wh ere some confusion enters in is that when they do the minor upgrades you are forced to do them and are shut off from the library until you do, but it only takes a few minutes to download and install the new minor version (which is free) and you're back up and running again. frankly, i dont like that either, but it may be forced to keep all filters in the library that are currently compatible to your version, completely compatible. i dont know. but, i do know it normally takes a very short time to download and upgrade a new minor version.

so, i hope this helps to sort this out for you.

ok, not sure why your system is doing that. i'll relate what i just did to upgrade. i started FF 2.xx. it gave me a small window asking if i'd like to check for updates. i said no, knowing that there was, but i wanted to try downloading a filter first. so, i tried that and i got another window telling me i'd need the upd ate before i could download and did i want to do that now? i said yes. it proceeded to download the new version onto my computer. when the download was complete it also started an automatic process of installing the new update. it did this just fine. i started up FF 2.xx again. it worked fine. i clicked on 'download more filters' and it gave me the message that it was updating the filter list and eventually told me that it had done this and that some filters had been moved to 'my filters' on my machine. i then went through and clicked on all the filters i didnt have yet and proceeded to download the 111 filters. this worked fine and i was done. and yes, this update says it is v2.010.

now, if you already have 2.010, then i dont know. did you download this new version already? maybe magically? sorry, poor joke right now, i'm guessing. if you are indeed going to uninstall and reinstall, i'd be interested in hearing your results. and, if you havent tried that already, maybe you could just try running the se tup.exe again? not sure. i dont recall if FF has a 'repair' feature to it or not. some of the new software out there does.

at any rate, i do hope you get this working. and if you dont get results from here on the forum and your re-install doesnt work, try the contact form. FF is generally pretty good about responding.