In mine also. ???
But only if you checked it as an option, by default it would be disabled as a 3rd party add-on.
So, it’s OK?
Working here, no problems at all.
+1
FWIW, the reason I asked whether a new installation of WebRep is handled properly (whether it is, as one would expect from the Firefox 8 release notes, disabled by default until approved through Firefox) is because some software developers are not happy about features which impede the silent install of addons. I’ve even seen some discuss possible ways to bypass this Firefox 8 feature. If the software developer is developing software that will only be installed on their own machines (corporate environment for example) that is one thing. However, some of the folks discussing bypass options were developing third-party applications. That, combined with the theoretical possibility of some limitation or bug in the Firefox 8 implementation, makes me think it would be wise to double check the behavior when third-party software installs an addon.
Yes, it’s fine. If you didn’t checkmark WebRep on restart of Firefox 8 after updating, it will be disabled. Then, if you want WebRep, all you have to do is open Firefox Add-ons and enable it.
What I find odd is in Firefox, Add-ons include extensions, themes, and plugins. However, I was never asked about my plugins. In the one Firefox profile that has another theme, it was disabled and the Firefox 8 theme became default. There are threads on mozillazine about the theme issue.
Strange, mine got checked and enabled all the time, before and after the update… ???
Yes, that happened.
I think on all the recent firefox updates, certainly for 6&7 on my system it has defaulted (no pun intended) to the firefox default theme.
Firefox 8 is the first time for me with a theme change. I added the other theme shortly after Firefox 4 came out.
Version 8 has also removed my pinned App Tabs (i.e. Google Translate), by the way.
Strange it didn’t remove any of mine (I have several, stop forum spam, ebay, MyYahoo, IP checking and a local file), just that the interface looked butt ugly in the default theme. Why oh why do they have such an ugly default interface.
Uhm, perhaps it was a coincidence (in my case).
Why oh why do they have such an ugly default interface.
c’mon, it’s not that ugly! ;D
I hope the smiley is an indication you are joking and it is butt ugly, looks like windows 95
Judge for yourself if it isn’t butt ugly when compared to an average/half decent theme ;D
Yeah, actually it sucks ;D - though I’m still using the default one since some minor issues I had in the past with other themes.
However, in my defense I must point out that I use the default minimal view of FF: only address bar and nothing else - yeah it looks exactly like windows 95 now ;D
About the only change I can see (other than the new ability to untick hardware acceleration) is that a number of my bookmarks have now lost their favicons. And something I’ve never seen before, the missing ones have been replaced by tiny dotted image-placeholders.
You must be using the default theme that uses the dotted square, use any half decent theme and it is likely to have a neater/nicer icon for it. I lost lots of my favicons, but it doesn’t look so bad replaced by a nice little heart.
There it a tool to recover bookmark favicons, but for the life of me I can’t remember it.
So a little search returns this for IE, http://www.simplehelp.net/2009/06/12/how-to-restore-all-your-ie-bookmark-favicons-at-once/ there is also a faviconize tab firefox addon. I’m in the process of getting them now.
CheckPlaces https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/checkplaces/ has the ability to retrieve favicon.ico during it’s checks for whether the link target actually exists on the internet. It can check for duplicate bookmarks, etc. Set it’s options for the job you want it to do. There are also other extensions may work.
Yes I have found that and spent the last 20 minutes running it and filtering out the duds in my bookmarks. I abandoned the faviconize tab firefox addon, incomprehensible.