It’s great to hear Fx 3.5.7 is working well for you, David.
I find that removing the extensions cache files is rarely necessary, but always safe. It does have the side effect of enabling any disabled extensions and removing any of the compatibility updates. After an extensions cache file cleanout, I need to click Find Updates in the Extensions Manager. Compatibility updates doesn’t need to download the extensions again. It just downloads the low bandwidth compatibility information, which is stored in one of the extensions cache files.
You’re right. Firefox -safe-mode merely helps narrow the problem down. It doesn’t tell you which extension, theme, or setting is causing the problem.
I think Polonus may be mistaken about Firefox -safe-mode being problematic in Fx 3.5.7. That would have been all over Mozillazine and the other Firefox support forums by now if it were the case. Any reports like that are usually caused by the user having other problems which aren’t eliminated by safe mode. I’ve never heard of a situation where safe mode caused problems. I doubt greatly that that’s the case now.
just noticed, see the screen shot ;D…otherwise I got no issues here, I mean just the usual memory leaks I got with FF since 3.56…I can’t check with extension updates as the last one I think was NS, and that was before I updated to 3.57.
In my Firefox is the same, the problem doesn’t occur every time I use Firefox on Windows, but there is a higher risk the problem occurs if I do some multimedia browsing or start to access multimedia (mostly picture) with my Firefox browser (e.g., If I upload any images to web from my local harddisk using Firefox - the incidence would mostly happen compare I only use Firefox to browse simple web page like this forum).
I don’t know if it is related. My only issue is with Dr.Web Antivirus Link scanner. It doesn’t uninstall (except in safe mode!) :D, disable or work at all. I have this error message:
The connection has timed out
The server at online.us.drweb.com is taking too long to respond.
* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.
* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.
* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.
yeah…I think had this kind of problems too in FF yesterday evening, it’s OK now…will post that on MozillaZine later…also got some pages loading improperly, in a sort of text view, with no rendering of HTML stuff, had to reload the pages to view them normally.
just an example here (screen shots), it happened again just now, how the page loads first, and how it loads properly then…see next post, files were too big.
I had to manually install Firefox. The build in updater hanged and firefox was running in background. Starting the browser again does not get the update. The full setup worked like a charm. This happened in the past more than once for me.
I get that very occasionally and I don’t believe it is a 3.5.7 version issue as it happened before that. I find that if it happens, the Refresh button reloads the page without problem. Sometimes I believe that is caused by a dropped connection.
thanks for the info guys, don’t know if FF is gonna run better after that, anyway I’m gonna try the latest dev build of ABP…I got issues in Chrome too, could be related as I’m using AdThwart there that uses the same filters as adblock+…which makes me think, if the filters or one filter is responsible, how could a new XPI of the extension change anything…or it’s the filter management may be…
The second problem is, sometimes I don’t totally understand either one. :