Warning about updating to Firefox 1.5

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Just tried the update again, and noticed that it reset the
starting page, but when I closed Firefox and then opened it again,
there was my old startup page.

In Firefox, the browser's start page doesn't have to be the home page.
The pref browser.startup.page controls it.

0 - starts with blank page
1 - starts with the home page
3 - starts with last page visited

I see there's a pref called startup.homepage_override_url set to
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/whatsnew/. They must
have shipped with a setting to use that override only once. IIRC,
during the beta and RC phase, that page had info about what had changed
since 1.0.x, but now it just redirects to
http://www.google.com/firefox, at least for my en-US version.

 

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Has anybody used a modified version of Prefbar and gotten it to
work okay?

I have read reports that you can't change its options in 1.5. If you
had it installed in 1.0.x and then installed 1.5 over 1.0.x, enabling
the PrefBar will keep your old setup, but you can't change it.

 

[John Corliss]

I have read reports that you can't change its options in 1.5. If you
had it installed in 1.0.x and then installed 1.5 over 1.0.x, enabling
the PrefBar will keep your old setup, but you can't change it.

Yep. A little while ago I hacked the install.rdf file as follows
(modified from another post somebody else here made):
____________________________________

How to force an extension to work in Firefox 1.5:

1. Download the .xpi file and save it on your hard drive.
2. Change the file extensions from .xpi to .zip.
3. Using your favorite ZIP utility (like WinZip), uncompress
the files into a new folder.
4. Right Click on install.rdf and choose Properties. Uncheck
"Read Only" and click OK. (I didn't need to do this)
5. Open the install.rdf file in a text editor such as Notepad.
6. Look for a line that reads <em:maxVersion>1.0+</em:maxVersion>
7. Change 1.0+ to 1.5+ and save install.rdf
8. Repackage the contents into a new ZIP file and change the
extension from .zip to .xpi
9. Drag your new .xpi into the Extensions window in Firefox to install.
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Yes, I now observe that what you say is correct. In fact, the only way
to close the "Customize" window is to press the "X" button in the upper
right hand corner because the other buttons don't work. In fact, when
you try to open that window a second time, it's now only a small blank
title bar with that "X" button.

Still though, having Prefbar with this bug is better than not having it
at all, and I haven't changed my Prefbar settings for a long time. It
seems to work okay other than the customization problem.

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[David]

Just tried the update again, and noticed that it reset the starting
page, but when I closed Firefox and then opened it again, there was my
old startup page.

That is standard behaviour from Mozilla and Firefox. They've been
doing that since the first incarnation of Mozilla.
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[Chris Lee]

Don,
Could you please clarify that? I know that Print Preview is
available
on the menu, but what the extension does is to make a button
available
for adding to the toolbar.

This is what you're bitching about?!? Damn. I thought you were talking about
something that was *ACTUALLY USEFULL*.

 

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Not only that, but the following
extentions were disabled:

TinyURL Creator
Print Preview
Copy Plain Text
Prefbar

Jeremy Gillick has just updated Copy Plain Text, along with his other
extensions. (I think they're all updated. I don't use his TinyURL
one, so I dunno for sure. I did install his SwitchProxy one, though,
and it now works with 1.5.) <http://mozmonkey.com/>

ISTM extension updates are coming pretty fast with this release. Of
the 50 or so I was using with 1.0.x, 36 have been updated for 1.5 so
far. And the "this extension destroyed my profile" problems of the
pre-1.0 days seem to be gone for good.

 

[John Corliss]

This is what you're bitching about?!?

Voicing legitimate concerns is not "bitching". I started a productive
discussion thread that led to people coming up with several solutions to
the problems I mentioned as well as clarifications of the home page issue.

Damn. I thought you were talking about
something that was *ACTUALLY USEFULL*.

As opposed to your reply?

Since I made the OP to this thread, I've dealt with all of these
problems and have posted detailed messages to that effect. I'm now
running FF 1.5 and all of the extensions listed above are fully working
except Prefbar. The problem I'm having with that one (as are, TTBOMK
everybody who, like me, is using a hacked version of that extension) is
that I can't Customize it.

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Not only that, but the following
extentions were disabled:

TinyURL Creator
Print Preview
Copy Plain Text
Prefbar

Heh, Print Preview was updated later on the day you posted that. I
know you've got the old version working, but you might want the
update. AMO has it, but the author's page also has a different
version which uses another icon for button.

<https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=314&application=firefox>

<http://www.snide.com/freesoftware/>

 

[John Corliss]

Heh, Print Preview was updated later on the day you posted that. I
know you've got the old version working, but you might want the
update. AMO has it, but the author's page also has a different
version which uses another icon for button.

<https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=314&application=firefox>

<http://www.snide.com/freesoftware/>

I caught that one. I'm watching my extensions closely and when I see
that they've been updated, I go for it. I don't think tweaking the FF
version in an extension's install.rdf file means that the version of the
extension isn't recognized by FF. IOW, update alerts still occur. At
least, this has been my experience.

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commercial software, crippleware, demoware, nagware, PROmotionware,
shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware, viruses or warez
please.