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Derspankster
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reply to matunga
Re: 55 bugs in new Firefox 3.5: users are posting complaints

oops - wrong topic, sorry!
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DJ R
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reply to matunga
I'm having issue with the Back button.

Sometime I clicked Back and nothing loads or keeps on loading forever.
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GuruGuy

join:2002-12-16
Atlanta, GA

reply to gregftlaud
said by gregftlaud See Profile :

Anyone else seeing an occasional right click bug? A few times when trying to use the right click to bring up the shortcut menu to either save a page or copy text the right click doesnt bring up the menu. Have to restart the browser to get right click to work but then after serveral hours it stops working again. Right click working fine on all other browsers.
That's one of the bugs I've noticed
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Its a Secret
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reply to gregftlaud
No, I've never had a problem with right-click. Do you have those pages added to NS (if you use it)?

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reply to matunga
Anyone else seeing an occasional right click bug? A few times when trying to use the right click to bring up the shortcut menu to either save a page or copy text the right click doesnt bring up the menu. Have to restart the browser to get right click to work but then after serveral hours it stops working again. Right click working fine on all other browsers.

Mele20
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Hilo, HI

reply to gratou
Re: 55 bugs in new Firefox 3.5: users are posting complaints

said by gratou :

Don't see anywhere to ask a question, complain or give any type of input on your link, danny9.
This page is the web equivalent of "if you want to be shown contempt, please type 1, if you want no help please type 2 etc" phone numbers we all know too well.
You didn't quote the post and this is a long thread so I don't want to look for it but if you are referring to Mozilla's web help site, it is very strangely organized but you can ask a question, search the knowledge base, etc. I get irritated there because they want you to list every extension in any question post. Plus, they want it to be more or less one on one question which I also don't care for much. I have had a few questions satisfactorily answered there but not quickly and usually the answerers are people I know who are regulars at Mozillazine forums. Why Mozilla didn't adopt Mozillazine as their official help I don't know and I think it was a bad decision.
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GuruGuy

join:2002-12-16
Atlanta, GA

reply to Mele20
said by Mele20 See Profile :

said by GuruGuy See Profile :

Mozilla and IE sharing temp folders? LOL
That's hard for me to believe too!
Whew! One of the longest bugs I have read but I finally understand why that Mod said to delete IE temp files if there is a noticable delay when starting Fx 3.5 cold. The delay is due to NSS collecting entrophy by walking the Windows file system when Fx is first started. In Fx3, the files walked are not the ones walked in 3.5. In 3.5 not only do you have to clear the IE temp folder (if having problems with a slow Fx start) but you need to also clear Recycle bin (good thing I don't have 3.5 because I rarely empty my Recyle bin and I bet my start time would horrible), Windows Temp folder and others.

The bug is a fascinating read and all the big Mozilla developers are posting in it as this bug is high priority. There are Fx test builds available through the links in the bug for anyone who has the problem and is willing to test the various builds. There is a patch at version 3 already. Certain Antivirus realtime scanners are also apparently implicated in the slow start and before I even saw that one of them is Avira I thought to myself "I bet Guard is going nuts scanning all these files that are being walked by NSS" and sure enough Avira and Kaspersky are name as possibly contributing to the slow start. Avast seems ok.

I am so glad I didn't upgrade on my virtual XP machine to 3.5. I checked my recyle bin just now on that computer and it was gigantic (I did clear it) and my Temp folder was huge and I had a terrible time trying to clear it. Besides TIF in IE needing to be cleared, history is implicated. I never clear history in my browsers and that would have really ticked me off if I needed to clear IE history just so Fx would not take several minutes to start.

»https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501605
Damn Mele,
That is one LONG bug list for sure! I read the whole thing and you hit the nail on the head with your summary.

What I don't see mentioned though, is when 3.5.1 will finally be released???
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gratou

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reply to danny9
Don't see anywhere to ask a question, complain or give any type of input on your link, danny9.
This page is the web equivalent of "if you want to be shown contempt, please type 1, if you want no help please type 2 etc" phone numbers we all know too well.

Mele20
Premium
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Hilo, HI


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said by GuruGuy See Profile :

Mozilla and IE sharing temp folders? LOL
That's hard for me to believe too!
Whew! One of the longest bugs I have read but I finally understand why that Mod said to delete IE temp files if there is a noticeable delay when starting Fx 3.5 cold. The delay is due to NSS collecting entropy by walking the Windows file system when Fx is first started. In Fx3, the files walked are not the ones walked in 3.5. In 3.5 not only do you have to clear the IE temp folder (if having problems with a slow Fx start) but you need to also clear Recycle bin (good thing I don't have 3.5 because I rarely empty my Recycle bin and I bet my start time would horrible), Windows Temp folder and others.

The bug is a fascinating read and all the big Mozilla developers are posting in it as this bug is high priority. There are Fx test builds available through the links in the bug for anyone who has the problem and is willing to test the various builds. There is a patch at version 3 already. Certain Antivirus realtime scanners are also apparently implicated in the slow start and before I even saw that one of them is Avira I thought to myself "I bet Guard is going nuts scanning all these files that are being walked by NSS" and sure enough Avira and Kaspersky are name as possibly contributing to the slow start. Avast seems ok.

I am so glad I didn't upgrade on my virtual XP machine to 3.5. I checked my recycle bin just now on that computer and it was gigantic (I did clear it) and my Temp folder was huge and I had a terrible time trying to clear it. Besides TIF in IE needing to be cleared, history is implicated. I never clear history in my browsers and that would have really ticked me off if I needed to clear IE history just so Fx would not take several minutes to start.

»https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501605
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Reimer

join:2006-08-14
Toronto, ON

reply to matunga
haven't had any problems here but I've also been using the betas and nightlies on occasion.

I even use over 30 extensions and I still don't remember the last time it's crashed aside from a tabmix plus incompatibility that's been fixed with the latest dev build


antiphishing
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reply to Turbocpe
said by Turbocpe See Profile :

The FireFox animated icon in the tab will spin forever. Nothing else happens, like actually loading the webpage I requested.

I get the annoying spinning animated icon (Vista SP1) and hanging of the browser ( Firefox 3.5 install over 3.1x) when my McAfee Anti-virus does it updates. When the update is done, the browser goes back to normal.

I might add that Windows does not hang when this occurs and the same problem happened using Firefox 3.1x. with the same extensions

I believe this is a memory issue with bloated Microsoft Vista , not with Firefox.
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antiphishing
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reply to Its a Secret
said by Its a Secret See Profile :

You may well be right. However, I would never choose that bloated POS IE8 unless it was my only choice. FF got it right when they gave users options for the extensions they want to load. MS should take note.
That is what makes Firefox better then IE, the extensions and themes. You will never see this kind of option with any Microsoft software now or in the future . It's a damn shame that the majority of computer users have to install Firefox on such a vulnerable platform like Microsoft Windows.
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reply to antiphishing
You may well be right. However, I would never choose that bloated POS IE8 unless it was my only choice. FF got it right when they gave users options for the extensions they want to load. MS should take note.
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antiphishing
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reply to GuruGuy
said by GuruGuy See Profile :

I'm using Vista too and have had tons of issues on three pc's with the new FF. Can't wait for the update. Been a long time user of FF until now.
I ofter wonder if Microsoft doesn't change it Windows code in both XP and Vista when installing updates to intentionally sabotage Firefox new installs so that they don't work correctly.

Who's to say that Microsoft isn't trying to maliciously conspire against their browser competitor so that computers users will install IE 8 and not use Firefox 3.5.

I can't wait for the responses on this post!
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SUMware
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reply to rcdailey
Re: Increase Firefox Performance by Optimizing SQLite Database

You're welcome. I unintentionally stumbled upon it yesterday and wanted to test it first before posting it here.


rcdailey
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reply to SUMware
Thanks for the tip. It really did seem to speedup loading of Firefox 3.5.
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Derspankster
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reply to matunga
Re: 55 bugs in new Firefox 3.5: users are posting complaints

I'm using it with XP in Virtualbox. haven't encountered any issues as yet.
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