OT:Firefox 1.5.0.2 / stability ?

Has anyone else had stability issues with Firefox since the update to
1.5.0.2 ?

Mine seems to be crashing on a regular basis without obvious reason,
i.e. sat there stationary while I read something

Colin Wilson wrote:
> Has anyone else had stability issues with Firefox since the update to
> 1.5.0.2 ?
>
> Mine seems to be crashing on a regular basis without obvious reason,
> i.e. sat there stationary while I read something

I just installed it yesterday and it seems to be running okay, so far.
However, I do expect problems, because contrary to recommendation, I
installed the software over the previous version, rather than
uninstalling first!

> > Has anyone else had stability issues with Firefox since the update to
> > 1.5.0.2 ?
> I just installed it yesterday and it seems to be running okay, so far.
> However, I do expect problems, because contrary to recommendation, I
> installed the software over the previous version, rather than
> uninstalling first!

Firefox hasn`t previously had any issues with an "over the top" install,
and when it updates itself automatically it does just that.

I might end up uninstalling a few of my plugins just in case, but there
are no problems flagged up for them...

PL wrote:
> Colin Wilson wrote:
>> Has anyone else had stability issues with Firefox since the update to
>> 1.5.0.2 ?
>>
>> Mine seems to be crashing on a regular basis without obvious reason,
>> i.e. sat there stationary while I read something
>
> I just installed it yesterday and it seems to be running okay, so far.
> However, I do expect problems, because contrary to recommendation, I
> installed the software over the previous version, rather than
> uninstalling first!

?? Mine decided to upgrade itself a couple of days ago, so presumably
just plonked the new stuff on top of the old. Seems to work fine.

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On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:05:04 +0100, Colin Wilson <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Has anyone else had stability issues with Firefox since the update to
>1.5.0.2 ?
>
>Mine seems to be crashing on a regular basis without obvious reason,
>i.e. sat there stationary while I read something
Not had any problems following my usual "download new version, install
over existing version" upgrade from the previous 1.5 GB version.
(1 download, multiple installs)


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Colin Wilson wrote:

>
> Firefox hasn`t previously had any issues with an "over the top" install,
> and when it updates itself automatically it does just that.
>

This is the advice I got from the moderator when I raised a query about
emails on The Moz forums:

> Before upgrading, make sure you uninstall 1.0.7 or you may have issues. Your profile and emails should not be affected, but it doesn't hurt to make a backup.

In this respect, the version 1.0.7 that I was running couldn't open
*.eml files.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)> ,
(E-Mail Removed) says...
> Has anyone else had stability issues with Firefox since the update to
> 1.5.0.2 ?

Nope. Stability problems like this are usually related to a third-party
extensions being incompatible (have you forced any extensions..?) in
your version of Firefox.

Incidentally, 1.5.0 on X was terribly unstable with regards to memory
leaks all over the place! These have all been, thankfully, fixed in
1.5.2.

Chris <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

> Nope. Stability problems like this are usually related to a third-party
> extensions being incompatible (have you forced any extensions..?) in
> your version of Firefox.

Though firefox normally checks each extension for compatibility and
does not load ones which are (known to be) incompatible.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) says...
> Chris <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>
> > Nope. Stability problems like this are usually related to a third-party
> > extensions being incompatible (have you forced any extensions..?) in
> > your version of Firefox.
>
> Though firefox normally checks each extension for compatibility and
> does not load ones which are (known to be) incompatible.

...there's the key word, though - 'known to be'.

Firefox only assess if they'll work on the updated version by looking at
the signature release that the extension maintainer provides - ie, this
extension works with Firefox 1.x-x.x. There's no guarantee that the
source code hasn't changed extensively enough to create a problem with
an extension that Firefox's installer checker isn't aware about - nor
could ever possibly hope to check automatically.

Incidentally, how do we know that the OP hasn't installed the night
tools package and forced an extension to work? We don't.

> Incidentally, how do we know that the OP hasn't installed the night
> tools package and forced an extension to work? We don't.

AFAIK i`ve only got known "compatible" extensions - which have been 100%
stable until the update.

I`ll try killing a few off, see how it goes :-}