Upgrade blues - upgrading to Firefox 3 final from Firefox RC 3

As evident from other posts here - have been keenly waiting for the FF 3 final. Imagine my surprise when the "Check updates" didnt find an upgrade! (I'm on FF3 rc3).

Anyway, so off I went to Mozilla.org and downloaded a copy of the final - and did my bit towards FF download day. Happily installed it - all defaults as usual. Install told me that it was installing into the same location as my current installation (c:\program files\mozilla firefox 3 beta 1 - that's where my FF3 install have been going  - all the way from b1 to b5 and then from rc1 to rc3 - so no surprise).

Well, installation completed successfully, and I started FF 3 - but my title bar still says Build 2008052906 - even the file version has the same build ID.

Something's up - don't know what yet - but has anyone else had a similar experience?

Firefox 3 beta 5 released. Yahoo Mail is still broken.

Firefox 3 Beta 5 release today. Release notes and downloads here.

Installed it as soon as I got to know today morning and the first thing to check was whether Yahoo Mail still crashed. Initially, Yahoo Mail seemed to work alright for all of 50 seconds - quickly moving over items in inbox caused Firefox to crash :-(

Guess will wait for some more time. I'm sure there's a bug report somewhere on this - Yahoo mail was broken on Beta 2, got fixed in Beta 3, then was broken in Beta 4  and is still broken on Beta 5.

Will wait for it to be fixed - Any idea if this is a firefox issue or a Yahoo! issue? Seems odd that script can cause the browser to crash so badly.

Yahoo! mail fixed for Firefox 3 beta 2

Used to get an error on opening Yahoo mail beta in Firefox 3 beta 2 - and had to switch to the plain 'ole yahoo mail. Here's the bug report

Was pleasantly surprised today morning to see that Yahoo! mail beta now works properly in FF3b2. Thanks!

Firefox 3 Beta 2 on Ubuntu Gutsy

I'm having weird problems with firefox 3b2 on ubuntu gutsy - and as far as I can tell, I seem to be the only one. Did not find anything similar on ubuntu forums too.

Installed firefox 3 beta 2 from Mozilla to /usr/lib/firefox3b2 folder and created

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2007-12-30 23:44 /usr/bin/firefox-3b2 -> /usr/lib/firefox3b2/firefox

When I launch firefox3b2, I get firefox alright, however, in the location bar if I type in a url and press Enter, nothing happens - absolutely nothing at all. I have to go and click the green arrow for the browser to open the URL. The search box is even weirder - neither the Enter key works nor does the mouse!

I'm at a loss - and nor can I find any similar experiences on forums etc - ideas welcome :D

SOLVED 01/20:Backed up my .mozilla folder and started firefox 3 b2 - no problems now :D

Sluggish Firefox - and what a hog!

Okay - for the past few days I've been irritated with the browsing experience at home. Pages (google reader, Yahoo mail etc seemed inexplicably slower than before - but they'd load alright - just seemed that teeny weeny bit slower that's enough to leave you suspicious).

I first suspected my ISP (verizon) for frequent dropped connections (saw the DSL modem lights reset a couple of times a day), then my wifi modem (not a high end one), then spyware/malware. So after the usual barrage of tests - wifi interference sources/anti virus/anti spyware/cable tests etc, I still hadn't nailed it.

Finally, used procexp ( you can use plain 'ole Task manager too - this is just flashier) and saw that FF had 330 MB of RAM with 3 or 4 tabs. Also, just plain clicking on a text box was slow, typing into a text field would echo characters after a noticeable delay - so this was definitely a browser problem.

When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

-- Sherlock Holmes

Ain't that an apt quote??? I love the addons I have and probably I have one too many. This page on problematic addons  was a life-saver - after disabling a bunch of infrequently used addons (stumble upon toolbar, google toolbar, browser sync, adblock filterset g, foxy tunes and some more), I'm back in browsing heaven. The only addons I have now enabled are

• diigo toolbar


• all in one gestures


• Adblock


• Flashgot


• Piclens

What a relief!

BTW, addons are also the latest attack vector. So be wary of who you let into your browser!

Firefox - not so obvious search

I discovered this - totally by accident.

In Firefox, you can use / (forward slash) to search for text OR links - and if its a link, then you can follow the link just by clicking Enter!  That is way cool - especially when you're on a laptop and cant/dont have your mouse around. I've always find it a pain to do a "link find"  - ' (single quote) and a text find - ctrl-f separately...Never knew that there was a shortcut that did both and what more - its way natural if you're used to 'less'!!

To complete the keys for Firefox mouseless browsing,

• space -  page down


• shift - space - page up