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What's up. Just wondering if anyone is having problems with the latest Firefox release. I've been having problems with the extensions. In particular the Tabbrowser Preferences. When I install it and restart Firefox it comes up with a space at the bottom of the window and in it, it has some weird code that mentions the Tab browser extension. Is anyone else having this problem? Does anyone know how to fix it?

Thanks.

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Quick question as I'm new to FFX... do you guys normally just install right over the browser's current installation? Or do you uninstall, then install the new package??

1.0.6 is the first version I've ever used, so I just need to know so I can save myself some hassle. :)

Thanks in advance for the help. :blush:

Quick question as I'm new to FFX... do you guys normally just install right over the browser's current installation? Or do you uninstall, then install the new package??

1.0.6 is the first version I've ever used, so I just need to know so I can save myself some hassle. :)

Thanks in advance for the help.  :blush:

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I've never had a problem just installing on top of the previous installations...

BUT.... things can and will get screwed up this way. Reason I say this is because Firefox isn't like IE and saves it's settings in some out of the way generic profile... Firefox creates it's own profile and hides it safely away to protect it.

Thus, if you upgrade to a new version, the profile can still think you're using 1.0x and get confused. This is why the above person *may* have had problems with his extensions.

As with any software, make a back up of your bookmarks, uninstall Firefox, and install the newest version and download and install the newest extensions.

This will help prevent any conflicts between the program.

For example, I'm running 1.51Beta, I did just an install on top of the old firefox, and my Adblock wasn't working right. Flash wouldn't show up properly. I even upgraded my flash... Turns out it was the adblock extension, and I needed "Adblock Plus" instead.

Hope this helps!! :D

From what I've seen, if you don't uninstall FF and just do an upgrade, first thing it does is check for compatibility with the themes/extensions you have.  So unless it specifically states that you should uninstall prior versions, I'd just stick with upgrading.

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Works for me.. thanks. :)

From what I've seen, if you don't uninstall FF and just do an upgrade, first thing it does is check for compatibility with the themes/extensions you have.  So unless it specifically states that you should uninstall prior versions, I'd just stick with upgrading.

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The install of 1.5 over 1.06 didn't work for me for some reason, and it didn't give any warning. It installed, but wouldn't start up when I tried to run it. I just reinstalled the old version over it again and was back to a working copy of 1.06. Has anyone installed 1.5 over 1.06 and gotten it to work?

Going to go install 1.07 now. :D

What's up. Just wondering if anyone is having problems with the latest Firefox release. I've been having problems with the extensions. In particular the Tabbrowser Preferences. When I install it and restart Firefox it comes up with a space at the bottom of the window and in it, it has some weird code that mentions the Tab browser extension. Is anyone else having this problem? Does anyone know how to fix it?

Thanks.

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the extension loaded on the mozilla site is screwed. go to the mozilla page, then follow the link to the main authors site and install the "english-locale" version

EDIT: gotcha the link Author's Site

Quick question as I'm new to FFX... do you guys normally just install right over the browser's current installation? Or do you uninstall, then install the new package??

1.0.6 is the first version I've ever used, so I just need to know so I can save myself some hassle. :)

Thanks in advance for the help.  :blush:

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all you hafta do is just install cleanly over your previous version ;)

I have problems with Java and FF.

It's just locked FF solid when running a java applet.

(N) FF

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try updating to the latest update J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 5.. java update 5 was release couple of days ago.

Quick question as I'm new to FFX... do you guys normally just install right over the browser's current installation? Or do you uninstall, then install the new package??

1.0.6 is the first version I've ever used, so I just need to know so I can save myself some hassle. :)

Thanks in advance for the help.  :blush:

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it should be fine. they fixed a bug in previous versions that resulted in multiple entries in add/remove programs.

nmuibm04, you've contradicted yourself. first you say it should be fine, then you say "as with any software, backup, uninstall..." etc.

extensions should not break because your profile's got "confused". Extensions are designed to work with 1.x, where x is a predetermined maximum. Thus, extensions working in 1.0, 1.01, 1.02...1.06 should work fine in 1.07 unless they made a big change to the way extensions work, or an incompatibility has been introduced because of a bug fix. i haven't had any problems with extensions carrying over from 1.06 to 1.07.

it'll be with 1.5 where extensions will break, because devs will have to bump the maxversion to 1.5 instead of 1.0x.

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