openSuse 10.3 Firefox 2.0.0.13 Update

Hello All

During regular automatic updates, I have gotten the notice that the
Firefox 2.0.13 update needs to be applied.

I gladly accepted the update when it first arrived but upon starting
Firefox after the update, only about a third of my installed addons
were recognized and functional. The remainder were either NOT present
or did NOT work.

I removed 2.0.0.13 and reinstalled 2.0.0.12 from RPM. I have since
tried to install from the 2.0.0.13 RPM and both of those have reacted
exactly as the automatic update.

Any idea what's going on here? I should mention that I accepted the
update as a regular user and then supplied the root password when
prompted OR used a root shell to install the RPM.

Thanks in advance for any clues.

Charlie Smith

Charlie,

2.0.12 was the pervious version? The addons were running fine?
If so try to reinstall them.

Uwe

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Uwe Buckesfeld wrote:
> Charlie,
>
> 2.0.12 was the pervious version? The addons were running fine?
> If so try to reinstall them.
>
> Uwe
>

Uwe,

Yes, 2.0.0.12 was (and still is) the previous version. ALL addons work
as expected in 2.0.0.12.

I have tried uninstalling all addons, letting the automatic update for
2.0.0.13 and 2.0.0.14 be applied and then installing the addons again.

Same story - small percentage work fine, the remainder either don't show
up in their normal location or don't work at all.

I've also experienced problems with segmentation faults. I click on the
desktop icon and I get the little bouncing cursor. After a short time,
the cursor goes away but firefox has not started. Clicking the icon a
second time does start firefox.

* Charlie Smith wrote, On 05/07/2008 02:42 AM:

> Yes, 2.0.0.12 was (and still is) the previous version. ALL addons work
> as expected in 2.0.0.12.
>
> I have tried uninstalling all addons, letting the automatic update for
> 2.0.0.13 and 2.0.0.14 be applied and then installing the addons again.
>
> Same story - small percentage work fine, the remainder either don't show
> up in their normal location or don't work at all.

And they are supposed to work with the new version?

> I've also experienced problems with segmentation faults. I click on the
> desktop icon and I get the little bouncing cursor. After a short time,
> the cursor goes away but firefox has not started. Clicking the icon a
> second time does start firefox.

Well, that happens to me all the time with Firefox on Opensuse. It is terribly unstable.

Uwe

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Uwe Buckesfeld wrote:

> * Charlie Smith wrote, On 05/07/2008 02:42 AM:
>
>> Yes, 2.0.0.12 was (and still is) the previous version. ALL addons work
>> as expected in 2.0.0.12.
>>
>> I have tried uninstalling all addons, letting the automatic update for
>> 2.0.0.13 and 2.0.0.14 be applied and then installing the addons again.
>>
>> Same story - small percentage work fine, the remainder either don't show
>> up in their normal location or don't work at all.
>
> And they are supposed to work with the new version?

And can you let us know which are the offending add-ons? I'm only using a
few and they're working OK. Lucky me?

>
>> I've also experienced problems with segmentation faults. I click on the
>> desktop icon and I get the little bouncing cursor. After a short time,
>> the cursor goes away but firefox has not started. Clicking the icon a
>> second time does start firefox.
>
> Well, that happens to me all the time with Firefox on Opensuse. It is
> terribly unstable.
>

I cannot recall it ever happening to me with Firefox (on KDE) and any
version of SUSE back to 7. However, I have one program, GIMP, that has
behaved in this manner a lot of the time up to version 2.2 though 2.4 seems
OK - so far.

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On 05/07/2008 Graham P Davis wrote:
> I cannot recall it ever happening to me with Firefox (on KDE) and any
> version of SUSE back to 7.

Multiple tabs with youtube content.

Uwe

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Uwe Buckesfeld wrote:

> On 05/07/2008 Graham P Davis wrote:
>> I cannot recall it ever happening to me with Firefox (on KDE) and any
>> version of SUSE back to 7.
>
> Multiple tabs with youtube content.
>
> Uwe
>

Sod's Law triumphed again this morning as the problem occurred in my Firefox
session. Multiple tabs and windows - as usual - but no Youtube content.
Closed all windows but problem persisted when trying to start afresh so
killed the process and all is now back to normal.

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