Firefox 2 dirty dozen: Critical vulnerabilities patched

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Wasn't Able to Upgrade to 3.0

On my main XP Pro machine, with a dozen or so add-ons, I wasn't able to go to FF 3.0. The app does its analysis, says it's going to disable incompatible add-ons (as usual), then just hangs, running in the background with no visible window to display. Of course it uninstalled the 2.x version but, after trying twice with 3.0, I was able to re-install 2.x and use the same profile.

As I recall, when I tried the 1.x upgrade to 2.x I had erase the profile to get 2.x to work, and couldn't re-install 1.x, so maybe this is an "improvement."

On my XP Pro laptop, simpler set of add-ins, was able to install fairly cleanly , but it lost the latest Flash plug-in so I had to re-install that.

Likewise, on a Vista Business PC, Firefox 3.0 installed on a simpler profile. Haven't seen the Flash error yet.

Of course if Microsoft or Adobe had produced software with this POS behavior, it would have been all over the news; but Mozilla.org, like Sun and Apple, are given a free pass with their incompatibilities and fubars.

Posted by: PMC-CON   Posted on: 07/03/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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