Sorry to be an odd one out at the moment, but I've just updated an XP
desktop machine and a Vista Laptop machine from ...6 to ...7 without a
hitch.

I have bookmarks, I have my Extension working, my History is intact, and
FF seems to be working very well on the sites that I visit regularly

Not only has FF on both machines been closed and re-run a couple of times,
but both machines have been cold rebooted, and FF still works.

I post this as a positive report, just to report something good about the
latest update and not as a Nanananana! As there seems to be a lot of
problems/negative comments by others.

I do hope you manage to sort them out soonest.

Cheers
Dave S

-- 

Dave Symes wrote:
> Sorry to be an odd one out at the moment, but I've just updated an XP
> desktop machine and a Vista Laptop machine from ...6 to ...7 without a
> hitch.
> 
> I have bookmarks, I have my Extension working, my History is intact, and
> FF seems to be working very well on the sites that I visit regularly
> 
> Not only has FF on both machines been closed and re-run a couple of times,
> but both machines have been cold rebooted, and FF still works.
> 
> I post this as a positive report, just to report something good about the
> latest update and not as a Nanananana! As there seems to be a lot of
> problems/negative comments by others.
> 
> I do hope you manage to sort them out soonest.
> 
> Cheers
> Dave S
> 


I'll ditto that. On both My xp and Ubuntu Fiesty. Upgraded no problem.
caver1

On Sep 21, 4:52 pm, caver1 <ca...@inthemud.com> wrote:
> Dave Symes wrote:
> > Sorry to be an odd one out at the moment, but I've just updated an XP
> > desktop machine and a Vista Laptop machine from ...6 to ...7 without a
> > hitch.
>
> > I have bookmarks, I have my Extension working, my History is intact, and
> > FF seems to be working very well on the sites that I visit regularly
>
> > Not only has FF on both machines been closed and re-run a couple of times,
> > but both machines have been cold rebooted, and FF still works.
>
> > I post this as a positive report, just to report something good about the
> > latest update and not as a Nanananana! As there seems to be a lot of
> > problems/negative comments by others.
>
> > I do hope you manage to sort them out soonest.
>
> > Cheers
> > Dave S
>
> I'll ditto that. On both My xp and Ubuntu Fiesty. Upgraded no problem.
> caver1

I just loaded an older version of FF 2.0.0.6 (thinking older
extensions ie. Mouse Gestures would work in older version) and still
no extensions working? ANYBODY know what might be wrong??

rreilly@reillystudios.com wrote:
> On Sep 21, 4:52 pm, caver1 <ca...@inthemud.com> wrote:
>> Dave Symes wrote:
>>> Sorry to be an odd one out at the moment, but I've just updated an XP
>>> desktop machine and a Vista Laptop machine from ...6 to ...7 without a
>>> hitch.
>>> I have bookmarks, I have my Extension working, my History is intact, and
>>> FF seems to be working very well on the sites that I visit regularly
>>> Not only has FF on both machines been closed and re-run a couple of times,
>>> but both machines have been cold rebooted, and FF still works.
>>> I post this as a positive report, just to report something good about the
>>> latest update and not as a Nanananana! As there seems to be a lot of
>>> problems/negative comments by others.
>>> I do hope you manage to sort them out soonest.
>>> Cheers
>>> Dave S
>> I'll ditto that. On both My xp and Ubuntu Fiesty. Upgraded no problem.
>> caver1
> 
> I just loaded an older version of FF 2.0.0.6 (thinking older
> extensions ie. Mouse Gestures would work in older version) and still
> no extensions working? ANYBODY know what might be wrong??
> 

See this page:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox

-- 
Alex K.

On 21.09.2007 22:15, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  Dave Symes to 
generate the following:? :
> Sorry to be an odd one out at the moment, but I've just updated an XP
> desktop machine and a Vista Laptop machine from ...6 to ...7 without a
> hitch.
>
> I have bookmarks, I have my Extension working, my History is intact, and
> FF seems to be working very well on the sites that I visit regularly
>
> Not only has FF on both machines been closed and re-run a couple of times,
> but both machines have been cold rebooted, and FF still works.
>
> I post this as a positive report, just to report something good about the
> latest update and not as a Nanananana! As there seems to be a lot of
> problems/negative comments by others.
>
> I do hope you manage to sort them out soonest.
>
> Cheers
> Dave S
>
>   
as a "helper app" for all those other gals 'n' guys who are thinking 
that the update is crap....

*HOW* did you run the update??
a) Auto-update
b) d/l the installer and update manually??

It would be good to find out (as others have questioned elsewhere) if 
the Auto-update is flawed, because it seems, from the majority of posts 
here, that the "Auto-Updaters" are the people having trouble whereas 
those who d/l and manually install are getting top results!

reg

In article <hNudnSkztuRPdmnbnZ2dnUVZ_uLinZ2d@mozilla.org>,
   squaredancer <squaredancer@t-online.de> wrote:
> On 21.09.2007 22:15, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  Dave Symes to 
> generate the following:? :
> > Sorry to be an odd one out at the moment, but I've just updated an XP
> > desktop machine and a Vista Laptop machine from ...6 to ...7 without a
> > hitch.
> >
> > I have bookmarks, I have my Extension working, my History is intact,
> > and FF seems to be working very well on the sites that I visit
> > regularly
> >
> > Not only has FF on both machines been closed and re-run a couple of
> > times, but both machines have been cold rebooted, and FF still works.
> >
> > I post this as a positive report, just to report something good about
> > the latest update and not as a Nanananana! As there seems to be a lot
> > of problems/negative comments by others.
> >
> > I do hope you manage to sort them out soonest.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Dave S
> >
> >   
> as a "helper app" for all those other gals 'n' guys who are thinking 
> that the update is crap....

> *HOW* did you run the update??
> a) Auto-update
> b) d/l the installer and update manually??

> It would be good to find out (as others have questioned elsewhere) if 
> the Auto-update is flawed, because it seems, from the majority of posts 
> here, that the "Auto-Updaters" are the people having trouble whereas 
> those who d/l and manually install are getting top results!

> reg

Okay...
On the Desktop machine (Win XP) Firefox was running when the auto update
notice arrived, gave it permission and it did the business, thereafter all
running okay, Bookmarks, History, Extensions, and regularly visited sites.

Laptop (Win Vista) Was about to use the LT a while after the Desktop
update and decided, before I got down to work, to force the FF update by
doing...
Menubar-Help-Check for updates.
It informed there was an update, I gave permission and off it went.
All is okay.

Cheers
Dave S

-- 

On 22.09.2007 12:58, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  Dave Symes to 
generate the following:? :
> In article <hNudnSkztuRPdmnbnZ2dnUVZ_uLinZ2d@mozilla.org>,
>    squaredancer <squaredancer@t-online.de> wrote:
>   
>> On 21.09.2007 22:15, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  Dave Symes to 
>> generate the following:? :
>>     
>>> Sorry to be an odd one out at the moment, but I've just updated an XP
>>> desktop machine and a Vista Laptop machine from ...6 to ...7 without a
>>> hitch.
>>>
>>> I have bookmarks, I have my Extension working, my History is intact,
>>> and FF seems to be working very well on the sites that I visit
>>> regularly
>>>
>>> Not only has FF on both machines been closed and re-run a couple of
>>> times, but both machines have been cold rebooted, and FF still works.
>>>
>>> I post this as a positive report, just to report something good about
>>> the latest update and not as a Nanananana! As there seems to be a lot
>>> of problems/negative comments by others.
>>>
>>> I do hope you manage to sort them out soonest.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Dave S
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> as a "helper app" for all those other gals 'n' guys who are thinking 
>> that the update is crap....
>>     
>
>   
>> *HOW* did you run the update??
>> a) Auto-update
>> b) d/l the installer and update manually??
>>     
>
>   
>> It would be good to find out (as others have questioned elsewhere) if 
>> the Auto-update is flawed, because it seems, from the majority of posts 
>> here, that the "Auto-Updaters" are the people having trouble whereas 
>> those who d/l and manually install are getting top results!
>>     
>
>   
>> reg
>>     
>
> Okay...
> On the Desktop machine (Win XP) Firefox was running when the auto update
> notice arrived, gave it permission and it did the business, thereafter all
> running okay, Bookmarks, History, Extensions, and regularly visited sites.
>
> Laptop (Win Vista) Was about to use the LT a while after the Desktop
> update and decided, before I got down to work, to force the FF update by
> doing...
> Menubar-Help-Check for updates.
> It informed there was an update, I gave permission and off it went.
> All is okay.
>
> Cheers
> Dave S
>
>   
thanks for that!

Did you "inter-act" with the update?? As in "tell the update to use the 
profile that already exists"

 From what I've seen with previous problem-posts, I tend to think that 
the Auto-Update (somehow or other) creates a new profile... I can't 
think why else Bookmarks, Extensions, Themes etc would get themselves 
"lost".

reg

squaredancer wrote:
> On 21.09.2007 22:15, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  Dave Symes to 
> generate the following:? :
>> Sorry to be an odd one out at the moment, but I've just updated an XP
>> desktop machine and a Vista Laptop machine from ...6 to ...7 without a
>> hitch.
>>
>> I have bookmarks, I have my Extension working, my History is intact, and
>> FF seems to be working very well on the sites that I visit regularly
>>
>> Not only has FF on both machines been closed and re-run a couple of 
>> times,
>> but both machines have been cold rebooted, and FF still works.
>>
>> I post this as a positive report, just to report something good about the
>> latest update and not as a Nanananana! As there seems to be a lot of
>> problems/negative comments by others.
>>
>> I do hope you manage to sort them out soonest.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Dave S
>>
>>   
> as a "helper app" for all those other gals 'n' guys who are thinking 
> that the update is crap....
> 
> *HOW* did you run the update??
> a) Auto-update
> b) d/l the installer and update manually??
> 
> It would be good to find out (as others have questioned elsewhere) if 
> the Auto-update is flawed, because it seems, from the majority of posts 
> here, that the "Auto-Updaters" are the people having trouble whereas 
> those who d/l and manually install are getting top results!
> 
> reg


On my xp box I Auto-updated. On my Feisty box I updated with Ubuntuzilla.
caver1

squaredancer wrote:
> On 22.09.2007 12:58, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  Dave Symes to 
> generate the following:? :
>> In article <hNudnSkztuRPdmnbnZ2dnUVZ_uLinZ2d@mozilla.org>,
>>    squaredancer <squaredancer@t-online.de> wrote:
>>  
>>> On 21.09.2007 22:15, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  Dave Symes 
>>> to generate the following:? :
>>>    
>>>> Sorry to be an odd one out at the moment, but I've just updated an XP
>>>> desktop machine and a Vista Laptop machine from ...6 to ...7 without a
>>>> hitch.
>>>>
>>>> I have bookmarks, I have my Extension working, my History is intact,
>>>> and FF seems to be working very well on the sites that I visit
>>>> regularly
>>>>
>>>> Not only has FF on both machines been closed and re-run a couple of
>>>> times, but both machines have been cold rebooted, and FF still works.
>>>>
>>>> I post this as a positive report, just to report something good about
>>>> the latest update and not as a Nanananana! As there seems to be a lot
>>>> of problems/negative comments by others.
>>>>
>>>> I do hope you manage to sort them out soonest.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Dave S
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> as a "helper app" for all those other gals 'n' guys who are thinking 
>>> that the update is crap....
>>>     
>>
>>  
>>> *HOW* did you run the update??
>>> a) Auto-update
>>> b) d/l the installer and update manually??
>>>     
>>
>>  
>>> It would be good to find out (as others have questioned elsewhere) if 
>>> the Auto-update is flawed, because it seems, from the majority of 
>>> posts here, that the "Auto-Updaters" are the people having trouble 
>>> whereas those who d/l and manually install are getting top results!
>>>     
>>
>>  
>>> reg
>>>     
>>
>> Okay...
>> On the Desktop machine (Win XP) Firefox was running when the auto update
>> notice arrived, gave it permission and it did the business, thereafter 
>> all
>> running okay, Bookmarks, History, Extensions, and regularly visited 
>> sites.
>>
>> Laptop (Win Vista) Was about to use the LT a while after the Desktop
>> update and decided, before I got down to work, to force the FF update by
>> doing...
>> Menubar-Help-Check for updates.
>> It informed there was an update, I gave permission and off it went.
>> All is okay.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Dave S
>>
>>   
> thanks for that!
> 
> Did you "inter-act" with the update?? As in "tell the update to use the 
> profile that already exists"
> 
>  From what I've seen with previous problem-posts, I tend to think that 
> the Auto-Update (somehow or other) creates a new profile... I can't 
> think why else Bookmarks, Extensions, Themes etc would get themselves 
> "lost".
> 
> reg
> 
> 


I've only seen "use an existing profile" with a manual reinstall. Never 
with an auto-update.
Caver1

squaredancer wrote:
> *HOW* did you run the update??

I downloaded the full installer for Win32.

When I deploy a new build of FF or TB I:

1) Remove all files in the FF program folder OTHER than the Plugins subdir
2) Remove compreg.dat and xpti.dat from all user profiles on the system
3) Deploy the new build of FF

That is all there is to it!

I also make backups of my FF / TB profile... have Batch scripts to automate that effort. From time to time clients have experienced FF doing strange things, so I simply roll them back to their last 
known good backup of their profile. TB has corrupted an address book file on more than one occasion, so I roll that one file back to the last known good backup.

-- 
Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/

In article <Mr-dnS_nRJGdlmjbnZ2dnUVZ_sninZ2d@mozilla.org>,
   squaredancer <squaredancer@t-online.de> wrote:
> On 22.09.2007 12:58, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  Dave Symes to 
> generate the following:? :
> > In article <hNudnSkztuRPdmnbnZ2dnUVZ_uLinZ2d@mozilla.org>,
> >    squaredancer <squaredancer@t-online.de> wrote:
> >   
> >> On 21.09.2007 22:15, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  Dave Symes
> >> to generate the following:? :
> >>     
> >>> Sorry to be an odd one out at the moment, but I've just updated an
> >>> XP desktop machine and a Vista Laptop machine from ...6 to ...7
> >>> without a hitch.
> >>>
> >>> I have bookmarks, I have my Extension working, my History is intact,
> >>> and FF seems to be working very well on the sites that I visit
> >>> regularly
> >>>
> >>> Not only has FF on both machines been closed and re-run a couple of
> >>> times, but both machines have been cold rebooted, and FF still works.
> >>>
> >>> I post this as a positive report, just to report something good about
> >>> the latest update and not as a Nanananana! As there seems to be a lot
> >>> of problems/negative comments by others.
> >>>
> >>> I do hope you manage to sort them out soonest.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers
> >>> Dave S
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> as a "helper app" for all those other gals 'n' guys who are thinking 
> >> that the update is crap....
> >>     
> >
> >   
> >> *HOW* did you run the update?? a) Auto-update b) d/l the installer
> >> and update manually??
> >>    
> >> It would be good to find out (as others have questioned elsewhere) if
> >> the Auto-update is flawed, because it seems, from the majority of
> >> posts here, that the "Auto-Updaters" are the people having trouble
> >> whereas those who d/l and manually install are getting top results!
> >>       
> >> reg
> >>     
> >
> > Okay... On the Desktop machine (Win XP) Firefox was running when the
> > auto update notice arrived, gave it permission and it did the
> > business, thereafter all running okay, Bookmarks, History, Extensions,
> > and regularly visited sites.
> >
> > Laptop (Win Vista) Was about to use the LT a while after the Desktop
> > update and decided, before I got down to work, to force the FF update
> > by doing... Menubar-Help-Check for updates. It informed there was an
> > update, I gave permission and off it went. All is okay.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Dave S
> >
> >   
> thanks for that!

> Did you "inter-act" with the update?? As in "tell the update to use the 
> profile that already exists"

>  From what I've seen with previous problem-posts, I tend to think that 
> the Auto-Update (somehow or other) creates a new profile... I can't 
> think why else Bookmarks, Extensions, Themes etc would get themselves 
> "lost".

> reg

Nope! Just clicked the dialogue that displayed, giving it permission to do
the update.

Dave S

-- 

squaredancer wrote:
> On 21.09.2007 22:15, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  Dave Symes to 
> generate the following:? :
>> Sorry to be an odd one out at the moment, but I've just updated an XP
>> desktop machine and a Vista Laptop machine from ...6 to ...7 without a
>> hitch.
>>
>> I have bookmarks, I have my Extension working, my History is intact, and
>> FF seems to be working very well on the sites that I visit regularly
>>
>> Not only has FF on both machines been closed and re-run a couple of times,
>> but both machines have been cold rebooted, and FF still works.
>>
>> I post this as a positive report, just to report something good about the
>> latest update and not as a Nanananana! As there seems to be a lot of
>> problems/negative comments by others.
>>
>> I do hope you manage to sort them out soonest.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Dave S
>>
>>   
> as a "helper app" for all those other gals 'n' guys who are thinking 
> that the update is crap....
> 
> *HOW* did you run the update??
> a) Auto-update
> b) d/l the installer and update manually??
> 
> It would be good to find out (as others have questioned elsewhere) if 
> the Auto-update is flawed, because it seems, from the majority of posts 
> here, that the "Auto-Updaters" are the people having trouble whereas 
> those who d/l and manually install are getting top results!
> 
> reg

I did the auto updater and let it do its thing. No probs here.

squaredancer wrote:
> On 21.09.2007 22:15, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  Dave Symes to 
> generate the following:? :
>> Sorry to be an odd one out at the moment, but I've just updated an XP
>> desktop machine and a Vista Laptop machine from ...6 to ...7 without a
>> hitch.
>>
>> I have bookmarks, I have my Extension working, my History is intact, and
>> FF seems to be working very well on the sites that I visit regularly
>>
>> Not only has FF on both machines been closed and re-run a couple of 
>> times,
>> but both machines have been cold rebooted, and FF still works.
>>
>> I post this as a positive report, just to report something good about the
>> latest update and not as a Nanananana! As there seems to be a lot of
>> problems/negative comments by others.
>>
>> I do hope you manage to sort them out soonest.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Dave S
>>
>>   
> as a "helper app" for all those other gals 'n' guys who are thinking 
> that the update is crap....
> 
> *HOW* did you run the update??
> a) Auto-update
> b) d/l the installer and update manually??
> 
> It would be good to find out (as others have questioned elsewhere) if 
> the Auto-update is flawed, because it seems, from the majority of posts 
> here, that the "Auto-Updaters" are the people having trouble whereas 
> those who d/l and manually install are getting top results!
> 
> reg
Updated two with download of full update, and install, and one with 
automatic update.  No problems, but then I don't use many extensions, 
and NO third party toolbars.


-- 
Ron Hunter  rphunter@charter.net

On 9/22/2007 3:29 PM, Ron Hunter wrote:

<snip>

  NO third party toolbars.
> 
> 
and that, I think, is the critical comment.  I tried Google's toolbar 
and had nothing but problems.  Got rid of it; no more problems!
-- 
Irwin

Please do not use my email address to make requests for help.

Knowledge Base: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Main_Page

"Irwin Greenwald" ...
> On 9/22/2007 3:29 PM, Ron Hunter wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>  NO third party toolbars.
>> 
>> 
> and that, I think, is the critical comment.  I tried Google's toolbar 
> and had nothing but problems.  Got rid of it; no more problems!

I'm sure Ron means no third party  search bars
   Google,  Yahoo  have them and Google is most notorious,
as opposed to the nice builtin   Search bar.

I have several extensions that have toolbars, though I don't show any
of them:      Web Developer,   Platypus,  Next Please.

I have about  100 enabled extensions, no problems this time with update,  manually
or automatic.  I do avoid most problematic extensions, and avoid all themes.
   http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/infolister_listing.htm#extensions
   http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm#ext
 

David McRitchie wrote:

> I have about  100 enabled extensions

Are you serious... 100???

As for me:
AdBlock Plus
Chatzilla
FireBug
FireFTP
Web Developer

That is all!

-- 
Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/

David McRitchie wrote:
> "Irwin Greenwald" ...
>> On 9/22/2007 3:29 PM, Ron Hunter wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>  NO third party toolbars.
>>>
>>>
>> and that, I think, is the critical comment.  I tried Google's toolbar 
>> and had nothing but problems.  Got rid of it; no more problems!
> 
> I'm sure Ron means no third party  search bars
>   Google,  Yahoo  have them and Google is most notorious,
> as opposed to the nice builtin   Search bar.
> 
> I have several extensions that have toolbars, though I don't show any
> of them:      Web Developer,   Platypus,  Next Please.
> 
> I have about  100 enabled extensions, no problems this time with 
> update,  manually
> or automatic.  I do avoid most problematic extensions, and avoid all 
> themes.
>   http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/infolister_listing.htm#extensions
>   http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm#ext
> 
If I want to search, I click on Google in my bookmarks (personal 
toolbar), and GO THERE.  I can't see any reason to have the search bar 
taking up space I don't normally use.
Everything is on my menubar, or my personal toolbar (bookmarks).  A 
rather minimal interface.  Even the menus are in a dropdown.


-- 
Ron Hunter  rphunter@charter.net