Don't autoupdate to Firefox 3.0.2 (FIXED)

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:26 pm

I did, and then I ran across this when I realized I didn't know what fixes it was supposed to provide -

http://www.crn.com/security/210604053

I haven't run into any problem so far, but it's not a good thing to have happen.

subcons · Post by **subcons** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 6:38 pm

I've been putting it off since yesterday. Guess I'll wait for another update.

Been having another weird issue as of late though (I guess it's since the update previous to this new one? Not sure.). I keep at least three separate windows open with multiple tabs in each. I have it set to restore my session if I quit so I can keep those windows/tabs and whenever I quit Firefox it just hangs. I have to force quit to get it to close. Restores my session fine when I open it back up though. Anyone else experience this?

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 7:27 pm

http://www.crn.com/security/210604053

This shouldn't effect you unless you use wacky characters in your passwords ..

I keep at least three separate windows open with multiple tabs in each. I have it set to restore my session if I quit so I can keep those windows/tabs and whenever I quit Firefox it just hangs. I have to force quit to get it to close. Restores my session fine when I open it back up though. Anyone else experience this?

Sometimes Firefox takes awhile to close with that much stuff open. It takes time to "clean up" everything. Wait awhile and see if it eventually dissapears from the task manager.

And yes Firefox 3 is generally slower and buggier than 2. :/

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 7:32 pm

Mmmh. I updated to 3.0.3 just a few hours ago. I guess they got rid of that bug by now.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 11:58 pm

Thanks Frederik, I updated on your advice and it works fine. They must've fixed it in about five hours or something. Fastest update-to-update for me yet!

MathU · Post by **MathU** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 1:26 am

Udderdude wrote:And yes Firefox 3 is generally slower and buggier than 2. :/

Buggy, yes. They really should have done more testing before releasing it this summer. But slower? Not a chance. It's like greased lightning compared to Firefox 2, for me.

nimitz · Post by **nimitz** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 2:32 am

simple solution,

use Opera

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 2:36 am

Firefox 3's buggy memory handling scheme on my old memory-poor PC (about every other day, the process would just spiral up a few MB of memory every sec.) forced me to search for an alternative after having been a pretty faithful Firefox follower since the Phoenix and Firebird days.

I tried IE8b2 after hearing good things about it but naturally, it was just as cumbersome as IE has always been. So I decided to spring for Chrome on my main PC, finding it to be very fast and using an acceptable amount of memory in its multiple processes.

Still, everywhere else, I keep with Firefox; its text protection is simply too useful. You can navigate to any other page and even have the browser unexpectedly close but the text you typed into a form will stay safe, something that's saved me so many times already, including here typing a message on Shmups.

Mortificator · Post by **Mortificator** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 1:10 pm

I got bit by 3.0.2 yesterday. Autoupdated and every one of my add-ons died.

Didn't take long to get fixed, though.

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 5:18 pm

Ganelon wrote:Firefox 3's buggy memory handling scheme on my old memory-poor PC (about every other day, the process would just spiral up a few MB of memory every sec.) forced me to search for an alternative after having been a pretty faithful Firefox follower since the Phoenix and Firebird days.

You can always downgrade back to Firefox 2. Been considering it myself, I keep finding new and even more annoying bugs. :/

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:40 am

Yeah, true, but I think the smart URLs and superior recovery options slightly outweighs the one-time system bog-downs. I've actually gone back to FF3 since having too many tabs open in Chrome takes up too many system resources.

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:56 pm

I've found some tips that can help with the slowdown when Firefox 3 starts.

http://ychittaranjan.wordpress.com/2008 ... firefox-3/

It also helps to disable Java and download the latest version of Flash Player.