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22 March 2007

It's not just me... The latest Firefox update has hosed so many people that the support site is too swamped to be useful.
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In my case, the add-ons and themes do not merely 'not work', they completely freeze up my entire computer. Too bad, too, because I have come to completely rely on a few add-ons for applications well beyond mere browsing. Scrapbook particularly.

post by: mischief at: 16:02 | 14 comments

The biggest problem appears to be the wide variety of problems and their lack of commonality: what is broken for one person runs fine for most everyone else.

Does anyone know how I can revert to the previous version? I cannot even find that simple bit of information.

posted by mischief 22 March | 16:16

That makes me so glad that I'm too lazy to install updates when something tells me to.

posted by kyleg 22 March | 16:17

Try the Firefox nightlies - you should be able to find something on there. Weird, I've installed this on 3 machines, 2 Macs and an XP, and it's been fine.

posted by TheDonF 22 March | 16:23

I've had trouble with the latest update cooperating with Gmail on my work machine only. Gmail will not load. I have the exact same setup at home, but no problems there. It's maddening. So I check Gmail in Safari at work. Ugh.

posted by smich 22 March | 16:34

TheDonF: Not so weird actually. A lot of people are having no problems at all. Thanks for the nightlies link btw.

posted by mischief 22 March | 16:39

The only problem I am having is a weird font substitution thingy that no one else in the office has, but that has persisted over several updates.

posted by initapplette 22 March | 17:09

I haven't had any issues here, either.

posted by fluffy battle kitten 22 March | 17:48

I had a weird thing happen with the new update where every time I started up Firefox the "Foxmarks" add-on's set-up would also come up - I just disabled the plug-in for now and will reinstall it later. But no real problems...

posted by wendell 22 March | 21:26

Just to be clear, is this 2.0.0.3?

posted by trondant 22 March | 22:46

After this hit my laptop it caused the keyboard to be somehow completely randomly reprogrammed. Rebooting solved that though. No other problems, yet.

posted by caddis 22 March | 22:49

Does anyone know how I can revert to the previous version?

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.2
(or you can navigate up a level and look for the one you prefer)

Me, I took the update without a hiccup, and I have way too many add-ons installed. Make sure that you try your current installation with safe mode (go to your Firefox start menu folder) or with a fresh profile, i.e. run "firefox.exe -profilemanager" from the command line inside your install directory. It is most likely your profile and not firefox itself that is the problem.

posted by stilicho 22 March | 23:04

No problems here either.

posted by deborah 22 March | 23:09

No matter what I do, stilicho, anything having anything to do with addons is hung from the instant I initiate. I even reinstalled 2.0.0.1 and the problem is the same. I found a couple guys on the support forums with the same problems and I am following what they do.

posted by mischief 22 March | 23:18

My work machine reverted itself to 2.0.0.2 pdq, and I wondered why.

posted by Eideteker 23 March | 06:20

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