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Lets talk about Firefox 3.5.3 and Snow Leopard

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iFanboy

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I've heard reports that the latest release of Firefox, build 3.5.3 is actually quite buggy on Snow Leopard and prone to crashing when you do such outlandish things as click on the "help" menu.

Can anyone confirm?

Since installing SL i've stuck to Safari and wondered whether Firefox worked yet. I would try it, but I like my shiny new OS to stay as pure and unmolested from incompatible programs as it is for a while longer yet ;)
 
Hmm, I may just! Thanks guys!

Btw, is there a 64 bit build for SL yet? I've googled and found nothing, so I guess not, but i've only been a mac user/fanboy for a few months now so there may be a resource to check that I don't know about?
 
I too run firefox for citrix, which that combo combined should suggest that I should see many crashes ;), but for me it is good. Safari on the other hand crashes almost daily. Sometimes if it doesn't crash for a day it will make up for lost time the next day.

Try opening a can of whoop ass on someone who thinks only poor folk who don't use SSDs in their notebooks and having safari crash before the post is sent. :mad:

Sorry ranty tangent.
 
I can't seem to get it installed in such a way that it will allow checking for updates. I even tried uninstalling it (dragging the app to the trash out of Applications), rebooting, logging back in (as my daily non-admin user), and then re-downloading it through Safari. When asked to authenticate in order to write to "Applications", I do like always and give my admin-user creds. It installed fine but STILL doesn't allow *either* user - not even my admin user - to click "check for updates". It stays greyed out even if I'm logged in as that user.

And yes, I checked that my admin user has read/write privs to "Applications". But for some reason it doesn't have write privs to "Firefox" inside there. Do I need to do Unix magic to recursively set every file in there to writable by admin?
 
Schtibbie said:
I can't seem to get it installed in such a way that it will allow checking for updates. I even tried uninstalling it (dragging the app to the trash out of Applications), rebooting, logging back in (as my daily non-admin user), and then re-downloading it through Safari. When asked to authenticate in order to write to "Applications", I do like always and give my admin-user creds. It installed fine but STILL doesn't allow *either* user - not even my admin user - to click "check for updates". It stays greyed out even if I'm logged in as that user.

And yes, I checked that my admin user has read/write privs to "Applications". But for some reason it doesn't have write privs to "Firefox" inside there. Do I need to do Unix magic to recursively set every file in there to writable by admin?
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I have never heard of having to authenticate the Applications folder?? Are you sure your permissions are all set correctly?
 
allan.nyholm said:
I have never heard of having to authenticate the Applications folder?? Are you sure your permissions are all set correctly?
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When you run daily as a non-admin user (as you're supposed to do on any OS for security reasons), you are asked for your admin username and password in order for the install to proceed. Actually, on a Mac I'm pretty sure it asks you to do that anyway even if your main user *is* an admin...

Anyway, I'm thinking this shouldn't be that complicated. I'm just trying to install FF and have it able to check itself for updates!
 
iFanboy said:
Btw, is there a 64 bit build for SL yet? I've googled and found nothing, so I guess not, but i've only been a mac user/fanboy for a few months now so there may be a resource to check that I don't know about?
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No. Most browsers aren't 64-bit yet, because they would require a wrapper for the 32-bit plugins, which causes terrible performance, and causes bad browser perception. It's really the chicken and the egg, and let's not wait for Adobe to come around with 64-bit flash.
 
iFanboy said:
Hmm, I may just! Thanks guys!

Btw, is there a 64 bit build for SL yet? I've googled and found nothing, so I guess not, but i've only been a mac user/fanboy for a few months now so there may be a resource to check that I don't know about?
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You might want to read this article for more info.

I saw somewhere (don't remember where, but it was official) the roadmap for Firefox, and 64-bit was planned for Firefox 4, and only for OS X.

So we'll have to wait until 2010, according to this.
 
The only issue I've found on Firefox on Snow Leopard is that the "Import..." menu item is greyed out. I can't import my bookmarks, so I'm not using Firefox anymore :)
 
Firefox at it's current version(3.5.3) crashes when either opening my Add-ons window or checking for updates to Firefox(I had to try different things)

It would especially crash if I opened another window and Firefox was in the background - when brought to the front and opening the Add-ons window, Firefox would hang leaving me no choice but to terminate the app.

This was with a Danish Firefox on a Danish OS X(Snow Leopard of course)
 
Firefox 3.5.4 caused SL to crash constantly

Shortly after upgrading to Firefox 3.5.4, my system started crashing constantly and hard (had to force quit the entire machine with the power button). Took me a while to determine that FF was the culprit. After FF had been running for a couple of hours, the machine would just freeze and beachball (though you could close windows, you couldn't do anything beyond that) out of the blue.

I upgraded to 3.6 beta a couple of days back and have not experienced any problems since.
 
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