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RedHerring · Sep 17, 2004, 10:52 AM

I downloaded the preview release of Firefox 1... and after using it for a couple of days, I'm curious if the quirky behavior I experienced was isolated or across the board.

I even did a complete removal of everything mozilla (firefox, thunderbird, camino, etc) and reinstalled it. Same weirdness.

Some of the things I encountered:

* Random freezes for strange reasons... such as clicking in white space on a website or clicking in to and out of a form field...

* Buttons on websites would stop working... like a log in button would work, but the log out button would not..

* The import from file function in the bookmark manager would just disappear when I clicked "next" to actually select the file to import...

I do realize it's a preview release... but my brother has the Windows version and he hasn't had any problems. Anyone else notice little random strangeness?

xi_hyperon · Sep 17, 2004, 10:56 AM

I checked out the reviews on VersionTracker earlier, and decided not to download the PR version yet. Many people were having the same issues that you are.

RedHerring · Sep 17, 2004, 11:04 AM

Originally posted by xi_hyperon:
I checked out the reviews on VersionTracker earlier, and decided not to download the PR version yet. Many people were having the same issues that you are.

Damn... I always forget about ol' VersionTracker...

bmedina · Sep 17, 2004, 11:11 AM

Have you ever installed previous versions of Firefox? Sometimes it can get tripped up in using older profiles that earlier versions created.

RedHerring · Sep 17, 2004, 11:15 AM

Originally posted by bmedina:
Have you ever installed previous versions of Firefox? Sometimes it can get tripped up in using older profiles that earlier versions created.

Yep... I deleted everything mozilla too... I got rid of camino, thunderbird, firefox... all of it. I searched out and located all of the pref files, profiles, crash reports... everything. And reinstalled.

It actually worked for about half a day like that... and then the weirdness returned.

osxisfun · Sep 17, 2004, 11:31 AM

its sucking for me too. i don't get menu bar items 75% of the time. can't type a url in (keyboard access) 90% of the time.

they should have delayed this release.

+ spiral + · Sep 17, 2004, 11:59 AM

I have had alot of those problems previously, but this is the first release, for me, with no bugs. I hope you can sort out what it is!

120db · Sep 17, 2004, 04:30 PM

Originally posted by osxisfun:
its sucking for me too. i don't get menu bar items 75% of the time. can't type a url in (keyboard access) 90% of the time.

they should have delayed this release.

these are the exact problems I've been having for Firefox for a lot of releases now. I tried removing all the prefs and stuff as well but ti still comes back. I'd love to use firefox for its extensions but this makes it unusable after a while.

bmedina · Sep 17, 2004, 06:38 PM

Just to be sure, you guys are removing:
~/Library/Application Support/Firefox
~/Library/Firefox
~/Library/Phoenix
prior to installing the latest version, yeah?

osxisfun · Sep 17, 2004, 06:48 PM

Originally posted by 120db:
these are the exact problems I've been having for Firefox for a lot of releases now. I tried removing all the prefs and stuff as well but ti still comes back. I'd love to use firefox for its extensions but this makes it unusable after a while.

i deleted all the prefs too.

i am on 10.3.4 dual g5 2.0

its not like the machine is a special case or uncommon...

osxisfun · Sep 17, 2004, 06:49 PM

Originally posted by bmedina:
Just to be sure, you guys are removing:
~/Library/Application Support/Firefox
~/Library/Firefox
~/Library/Phoenix
prior to installing the latest version, yeah?

But what about older revs of firebird or firefox. i develop so i like to keep a couple of old versions around for checking out my sites.

?

would'nt they step on each other if i did what you said.

bmedina · Sep 18, 2004, 04:06 PM

Originally posted by osxisfun:
But what about older revs of firebird or firefox. i develop so i like to keep a couple of old versions around for checking out my sites.

?

would'nt they step on each other if i did what you said.

Well, the easy solution is to have separate user accounts for each version.

The harder solution is to trash all prefs, then run each version of Firefox you want to test from newest to oldest. The newer versions will establish the preference directories that they need without importing from older versions, since you haven't run those yet.

Of course, if you already have all version working properly, there's no need to mess with things.

osxisfun · Sep 18, 2004, 05:34 PM

thks. i may go the separate user account way. but since i still have some time i might wait for a 1.0.1 rev.

selowitch · Sep 19, 2004, 10:37 AM

I'm a so miserable with Firefox's lame way of handling file type associations and plugins. It just sucks and works so poorly, and getting help is well-nigh impossible.

Krypton · Sep 19, 2004, 11:00 AM

Firefox freezes a lot when I use my Wacom tablet with it.

Unfortunately Mac Firefox is very buggy, which is why the 1.0 Mac release is officially destined to be about a month or so after the Windows release.

wataru · Sep 19, 2004, 11:19 AM

I've never had any of these problems, and I've been using Firefox nightlies since the Phoenix days. I suspect you're doing something weird.

osxisfun · Sep 19, 2004, 11:44 AM

sorry. i just installed it. no funny stuff. no damn haxies, no usb devices other than the mouse and keyboard. very basic setup on new machine on 10.3.4.

used as directed. firefox 1.0pr very well could give you nothing but grief.