Firefox upgrade

Discussion in 'Software' started by Jakamoko, Mar 7, 2005.

  1. Jakamoko
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    Hey Guys,

    You noticed the little red circle on the top right of the Fox ? Version 1.0.1 is released. However, just to point out, it took me 4 goes for the install to work - each time it came up with a rather unspecific error.

    Typical tho - I ran it again, hoping to generate the same error, so's I could post the screenshot here - bloody well worked, didn't it, so no screenshot.

    Best guess at this stage it that Mozilla's servers may be inundated with folks trying to download this (although I am probably completely wrong here !)

    Anyway, just thought I'd point it out to any Fox Fans who may not have noticed.

    HTH :)
     
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  2. tripwire45
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    I wasn't able to do a direct upgrade at all. I had to download 1.0.1 from the Mozilla site and run the installer as if it were a fresh install. No message saying it was going to overwrite or uninstall 1.0.0 but it worked. Don't know why the upgrade method failed.
     
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  3. Jakamoko
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    Yup - a bit odd, as the "upgrade" placed the full 1.0.1 installer on my Desktop (rather handy for later). Not noticed any improvements just yet - anyone else noticed ?
     
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  4. AJ

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    Same happened to me Gav. Took a couple of attempts to get the upgrade.
     
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  6. nugget
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    I ran the standalone installer on one of my machines, no problem. With the other one I have noticed the little red alarm bell so I will try this tonight with the update method.
     
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  7. Phoenix
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    Tried the update (red icon) from here at work (behind a proxy and a firewall)
    seemed to work fine, told me it needed to close firefox to continue, closed it up, loaded it a few mins later, all done

    updating my extensions too, pretty clever :)
     
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  8. Bluerinse
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    Have they fixed the memory leak issue yet?

    No mention of it in the link Trip.

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  9. nugget
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    OK, just ran the updater from within Firefox. It took a while to download but when it finished it ran like it should. I was a bit disconcerted to see the red icon still there when I started it up again so I checked the version number, 1.0.1, and ran the updater again. Reported that there were no updates available and then promptly disappeared. :D
     
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  10. Jakamoko
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    Yup - took a couple of restarts of the Fox for me too for the red warning to disappear.
     
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  11. tripwire45
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    Memory leak? :blink For a second, I thought you were talking about me, Pete. :tongue My memory's been known to "leak" from time to time. :oops:
     
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  12. Bluerinse
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    Tell me about it :rolleyes: My brain these days can be likened to bucket with a big hole in it.

    Dear Liza, I don't have a straw :cry:

    Pete
     
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  13. Gaz 45

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    Same as Phoenix, no problems installing it. The little red circle didn't appear until today (or maybe yesterday) though.
     
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    I ended up with full installer, so had to remove the old versions of firefox and thunderbird as the old installs were never overwritten.
     
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  15. Jakamoko
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    Bit late, but I found THIS tonight, Pete.

    HTH :)
     
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  16. AJ

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    Getting a dead link m8 :(
     
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  17. tripwire45
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    I think the best bet is just go to www.firefox.com and download the latest package (1.0.2 in this case).
     
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  18. Jakamoko
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    Sorry - dead link corrected :oops:
     
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  19. Bluerinse
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    Thanks Jak, interesting thread, especially the bit where he states computers use base 12 counting :biggrin

    I might give FF another whirl now, I have been using Avant Browser which is based on IE's engine but offers most of FF's bells and whistles like tabbed browsing and pop up blockers etc.

    Pete
     
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  20. Jakamoko
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    After updating with todays "wee red arow" update, I realised that when the Fox still displays the arrow after upgrading, clicking on it again so that it finds no new updates makes it disappear !

    HTH :)
     
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