Watch Firefox 3.5 takeup in real time
BY NOW everyone who didn't spend yesterday under a rock or sleeping off a bad hangover knows that the launch of Firefox 3.5 proceeded on schedule Tuesday as promised.
If you haven't downloaded that yet, you can find it at the usual place. The announcement is available with an overview of what's new, plus the more detailed release notes, of course.
Initial takeup appears to be strong and steady, though perhaps not proceeding at quite the fast and furious pace of the more heavily promoted release of Firefox 3.0 last June.
When we downloaded the Linux version early yesterday afternoon (PST), the file transfer went smoothly without any hitches and maxed out our admittedly rather slow 1.5Mbps DSL link.
Mozilla seems to have done an exemplary job of setting up a sufficiently large number of download server sites and affilated mirrors for this release. Apparently it learned from the very high download demand that staggered its servers at the outset of last year's release.
There's even a really cool download tracker where you can watch the distribution of Firefox 3.5 in real time on a spiffy animated world map. µ
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I lost a lot of my older bookmarks with this 3.5 upgrade. I had the previous version installed. I have never lost my bookmarks with any browser. I am ticked!
all of your bookmarks are backed up every day and saved for 6/7 days.
look in
C:\users\[your username]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[your profile]\bookmarkbackups
or something resembleing that
you can just import those json files into firefox.
your case is a excpetion btw, havent heard of anybody else having that problem.
Always backup your profile. For that matter always backup anything you can't loose. Don't be dumb. Back in Firefox 1.x-2.x it was more common to get profile corruption. There was a transition in firefox 3 to sqlite databases but I have heard a fair amount of the same complaints where it still gets corrupted. If it gives you problems it's best to backup bookmarks and nuke your old profile to make a new one with firefox 3.5.
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Well said Stewie.
I guess you could say that I'm backing up my jason(username) json files? ;)
(hmmmm, the spell-checker doesn't think 'username' is a word)
I wish Firefox would not produce those damn stupid Thumbs.db files when I access files on disk with Firefox. It is bad enough that one has to disable this nonsense on MS-DoS Windows. Not that I could find an option to disable this nonsense, neither through the options nor through about:config. Besides, considering that the Firefox developers think it is acceptable to write into every directory by default, I am wondering what else they screw up.
** All countries 24 22 37 6,287,212
US United States 12 4 16 1,588,712
DE Germany 0 0 3 722,356
JP Japan 3 0 6 359,985
FR France 0 0 1 289,771
GB United Kingdom 0 0 3 225,705
surprised me france was in the top 5!
since Netscape 1.0. May be you guys will help me to convince FF developers to fix it. It is hard to do though. Basically when you have 50-100 tabs or windows open in Firefox and hibernate Windows computer, then returning from hybernation takes tons of time - sometimes 15-30 minutes. Or even forewer. Have you noticed that? Nothing like that happen with other browsers, only FF and Netscape has this centennial bug.
I regularly hibernate with multiple FF windows with dozens of tabs each. Resuming takes more time that resuming anything else.
Starting up FF from scratch and loading the old session can take a couple of minutes, but nothing serious considering all the tabs.
The only thing I have that might be hiding the problem is I use the Tab Mix Plus add-on.
@Honey Bee
It's normal that you can't find the way to disable that in Firefox because those thumbs.db are created by Windows itself, you can disable that in the Folder Preferences (search for Do not cache thumbnails)
So I installed it over my existing copy of Firefox and it deleted all my bookmarks, all my saved usernames/passwords and everytime I try to import an old bookmark.html file it grabs 96% of the CPU time and crashes.
Take a look through the Mozilla forums, this seems to be happening rather a lot. Sad, very sad.
Noticed they give Firefox a positive review while anything Microsoft gets knocked. This is a linux geeks dream come true.
Yahoo email still look bad with FF. I switch to Chrome when reading my yahoo email
Installing this update lost all my passwords/log ins/usernames and now whilst I still have most bookmarks (I think) I cannot save any more and my macbook keeps crashing. Wish I could reverse the update but not being a technie I don't know how! :-(
redhat 2.6.18-53.el5 x86_64
upgrade to 3.5 blew away ALL bookmarks...
Bonus: when i try to restore the .json file i get the cryptic and entirely useless error msg: Unable to process the backup file.
How sweet is that???
is made by Winders Explorer. It has nothing to do with Firefox.
Now if I could only get Windows Media Player to stop writing all these .thumbs and .trash folders it leaves behind everywhere.
Don't bothe rdownloading it. You'll soon find out what not only me has experienced : pages not loading at all, endless spinning of the firefox "wait" cursor, crashing, when closing the browser it stays as a process in memory, not unloading at all, eating up 60% CPU or even more, using up to 200K of memory, cool, just go ahead , if you don't believe me, but don't complain afterwards.
I have uninstalled that piece of shit and I am using Google Chrome instead.
Roland