Fun with Firefox

I'm not averse to the idea of my computer being a piece of shit...

skipped 4, went straight to 5

feels a little faster, but it takes like 10 seconds (and sends firefox to using 50% of cpu) to load gmail, which is weird and bad

5 doesn't load for me. I had to downgrade to 3.6.

There's already an update available... lol

If you have firefox crashes, try making a new profile. Backup your bookmarks, take a note of your addons, google firefox profile manager on how to proceed in detail (I don't know by heart, mine doesn't crash)

^ thought they recommended this for every major upgrade, even

at work i appear to have 4 copies of each bookmark (not adjacent to each other so i never see the bottom 3 copies unless i scroll (and scroll and scroll) down).

ubuntu lucid is still on 3.6 and you don't get the option to upgrade until the package is upgraded (you can install it separately but it's a hassle)

Is there any reason that, with Firefox 5, there's a different font that appears on this site?

could be the html5 kicking in (if you upgraded from 3). i've noticed a different default font (smaller, serif) in text input boxes (but not here) and rounded corners on the Add a Post box.

seems to me like 4 except without the breakiness (e.g. grinding to a halt whenever I'm downloading), which I appreciate, but also without Google toolbar compatibility, which I really don't appreciate. Like losing a limb. :'(

googlebar lite extension has updated

xxxpost: no, it's all still in Comic Sans here.

Firefox 4 minutes, more like it

That's a good point, Koogs. It's the biggest downside of all these new upgrades, constantly being confronted with addons that aren't working anymore. This is bugging me to no end.

There is a quick fix for plugins suddenly not working, but it involves some minor mucking about in the code.

Not afraid of some mucking about! Could you share it?

http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-update-firefox-thunderbird-addons-new-release.htm

The trick is to find the right directory where your add-ons are stored, probably in the FF sub-dir of %APPDATA%:

1. Run to "%APPDATA%"
2. CD to Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles
3. CD to whatever profile is the one you want
Voila, that should be your add-ons directory, I *think*. Then follow the steps in the link above. (No idea if this works for FF4/5, but it's how I fixed some of my fav add-ons in the FF3.* era.)

Hey thanks, I'll give it a go tonight!

Or just install this - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/

it installed firefox 6 beta this morning. madness.

and disabled 4 of my plugins.

just me or is firefox increasingly refusing to take "no" for an answer when it wants to upgrade?

i did force it by doing 'about, check for updates' and was given the option (and warned that 2 plugins would be disbaled). then it installed and disabled 4...

(this is my 'only for games' windows partition so i don't really care)

but yes, when there are major security updates it is kinda forced.

i swear to god i never said "yes" to firefox 5 but then it just went ahead and did it anyway. fuck you, firefox.

It keeps chucking errors at me "COULD NOT PERFORM THE UPDATE" like I care.

I'm still on 3.6.2. You all scared me.

6 ? Doesn't this look like they're skipping a couple and are building towards 8.0 ?

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

http://i.imgur.com/FlzFw.jpg

Thx!

Grrr, I'm wondering if the 5.0 is messing with my SwiftTabs plugin -- sometimes takes multiple presses of my designated tab navigating keys, and sometimes doesn't work at all!

Now Firefox wants me to update to 6.0???

FUCK YOU

Where's the "never ask me again" button

according to slashdot yesterday they are soon doing away with version numbers. you will then be 'up to date' or not.

if they can do it in the background, fuck yeah.

I went from 3 to 5 and liked the upgrade except that about 50% of the time when I open FF after my computer has been off, it freezes and I have to force it to close an reopen it.

With 5 I went crazy with extensions. My faves: YouTube downloader, Boomerrang (Gmail snoozer and more), imgur, Last Pass.

ff has become so unstable and crashy i only use it when i have to (which is all the time for development work since firebug for chrome is still shitty and ie8 developer tools is fucking useless)

installed 6.

do you want to reboot to finish installation? no, not really.

try to run firefox and got "you must reboot to finish installation". so why was it an option?

oh, btw, 2 of your add ons no longer work.

and your flash needs updating. here's a handy link. but the installation won't work whilst firefox is still running...

Anyone use the add-on checking thing? I just installed it. We'll see if um up to the challenge.

not bothered to check tech sites, but flash in firefox has been *really* unstable since I got 6, must have updated it about four times in the last two weeks.

it's silently disabled another 2 add ons (Adblock Plus Element Hiding Helper and Modify Headers)...

and re-enabled acrobat and silverlight...

seriously, i'd recommend you hold off updating for a week or so and give the plugin developers a chance to update.

Yeh, I'm definitely waiting.

Also, is this where we rep for add-ons? B/c I want to say: Boomerang is awesome. It's an app for Gmail that lets you snooze, schedule sending, and other stuff. I've been bitching about wanting something like that forever! And it's been around for quite a while, I just didn't know.

I ran a Gmail script that enables snoozing, but it's clunky and not very versatile.

What the hell? I'm using 6 now but I don't remember upgrading. Maybe I agreed to the upgrade by absent-mindedly clicking something, but I really do not recall being asked.

I didn't like the tabs above the address bar thing that FF5 did so I changed it, and now that I've changed it again in FF6 I'm being left irrationally angry / uneasy by the lack of distinction between the bottom of the tabs and the beginning of the web page itself. Not that I can remember what it was like before.

the exact same thing happened to me with 5.

xpost

went to tree style tab a year or so ago, never looked back

fucking thing

tree style tabs is absolutely necessary btw

I'm still running 3.6.20
Is there any reason to upgrade?
It works perfectly atm