After installing, most of the extensions still appear and claim to be compatible, but not all of them work. On its site, the Web Developer Toolbar is supposedly compatible with Fx 1.5, but the toolbar doesn’t appear when I open (or restart) Firefox. A number of extensions behave this way, including FoxyTunes, my alarm clock. What’s more, themes do not work, even ones that claim compatibility. In addition to all of that, Firefox freezes every time I try to change the options of an extension. It just freezes.
This is the problem with upgrading Firefox. I want to use the new features such as SVG and so forth, but I want to keep the functionality of the extensions I installed. Well, hopefully all the extensions are updated and work properly, and the freezing problem is fixed in Firefox soon as well.
So, there’s that. I haven’t had a chance to play with SVG and all the new cool stuff in Fx 1.5 yet, but I just wanted to rant on how I’m disappointed with not only the fact that my extensions failed to work (yet claim to), but also that Firefox still has obvious bugs. If anyone has any tips on fixing, please let me know. Until then, I’m going to look around for a way to solve the issues I’ve experienced thus far, and update this post with new information if I can get my hands on any. Peace.
That’s exactly why I didn’t upgrade. The same thing happened with the release of 1.0. I’ll probably wait a month or so until all my many extensions have got all their bugs worked out.
It’s funny you mention FoxyTunes - that was probably the extension I was afraid of the most not working for me immediately following the upgrade.
November 30th, 2005 at 9:24 am
I’ve actually had an incredibly smooth upgrade process. I’ve been following 1.5 since beta (using a different profile). So when 1.5 was officially released yesterday, I removed it and donwloaded it for my official Firefox version. It turned off several extensions which weren’t available, and updated a theme to make it compatible. Yes, extensions aren’t available, but that’s not Firefox’s fault.
But webdeveloper does work just fine. Webdeveloper 0.9.4, correct? I’d try unistalling/reinstalling it. But yes, compatibility with extensions is entirely the responsibility of the extension writer.
November 30th, 2005 at 4:02 pm
Bob, the problem is Firefox because I can’t uninstall the extensions to reinstall them (it says “restart firefox to uninstall” but it never uninstalls), and trying to install them in the first place causes an error.
November 30th, 2005 at 4:18 pm
Yeah, you know I was thinking that when I read your post. Your installation just went plain wrong somewhere. If I were you, I’d try to uninstall and then reinstall Firefox. I had a similar experience back when Firefox reached 1.0, but uninstalling and reinstalling worked for me then. Worked again with one of the betas.
November 30th, 2005 at 6:23 pm
Will I lose my profile (settings, bookmarks, etc.) if I uninstall? What about my extensions?
Edit: I just uninstalled and reinstalled, but nothing changed. All of my extensions and everything were saved. I tried uninstalling, restarting, and then installing, but it still hasn’t changed a thing. I think it may be my profile that is corrupt, somehow…yikes.
November 30th, 2005 at 8:32 pm
One question: Are any of my sites broken in it?
One request: Deck Your Blog!
December 1st, 2005 at 1:47 am
Mike, everything I’ve seen still works perfectly fine, including your sites.
Decking my blog sounds like a great deal of fun. I may not be able to get to it and publish it, but I have been considering doing something like that for awhile now. If I end up publishing it, I’ll be sure to do your little meme thingy.
December 1st, 2005 at 5:29 am
Thanks for checking things out for me Jona.
I sure hope you do decide to deck Your Blog, it would be fun. Just lately my blog has died. I get lots of traffic but hardly any comments. I thought for sure I get responses to both Fiction: The Hitchiker — which I’m told is a great story — and Great News for Rotten Smellers (the latter may something which affects me and only me lol), but nada, zip, zed, zero. :(
December 1st, 2005 at 2:44 pm