Comments on: Firefox 1.5

By: Mike Cherim

Mike Cherim — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 19:44:50 +0000

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. :(

By: Jona

Jona — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 10:29:09 +0000

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.

By: Mike Cherim

Mike Cherim — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 06:47:13 +0000

One question: Are any of my sites broken in it? One request: Deck Your Blog!

By: Jona

Jona — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 01:32:01 +0000

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.

By: Robert F.

Robert F. — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:23:20 +0000

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.

By: Jona

Jona — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:18:28 +0000

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.

By: Robert F.

Robert F. — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:02:54 +0000

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.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:24:08 +0000

most of the extensions still appear and claim to be compatible, but not all of them work.

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.