[CentOS] firefox 1.5.0.5 packages

Sun Jul 30 23:14:03 UTC 2006
Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org>


On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, William L. Maltby wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 00:26 -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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>> On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 08:09:30PM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
>>> On 7/29/06, Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org> wrote:
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>> The browser crashed when opening the extensions manager and also with
>> a very simple webmail page.<snip>
>>>
>>> If you upgraded directly from 1.0.8 to to 1.5.0.5, you probably need
>>> to reinstall all of your extensions.  I recommend (1) write down what
>>> all of them are, (2) uninstall them all from your present firefox
>>> 1.0.8, (3) upgrade to 1.5.0.5, and finally (4) install extensions
>>> again.
>>>
>>> Even upgrading from 1.5.0.2 (centosplus) to 1.5.0.5, I'd recommend
>>> reinstalling extensions.  In my experience firefox always crashes on
>>> the first -- and sometimes also second and third -- launches after an
>>> upgrade when there are any extensions present.
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>>
>> No problema here upgrading from 1.5.0.2 to 1.5.0.5. No crashes, extensions
>> working fine and all else.
>
> Ditto. Plus IIRC (I don't *think* it was my wife's Win machine) it came
> out and upgraded my extensions when I first started? If not, to quote a
> former mother-in-law, "I must be losing my mind!".

firefox did do the extension upgrade check with me as well.

Barry