Posted by Raghu on June 17, 2008
As evident from other posts here - have been keenly waiting for the FF 3 final. Imagine my surprise when the “Check updates” didnt find an upgrade! (I’m on FF3 rc3).
Anyway, so off I went to Mozilla.org and downloaded a copy of the final - and did my bit towards FF download day. Happily installed it - all defaults as usual. Install told me that it was installing into the same location as my current installation (c:\program files\mozilla firefox 3 beta 1 - that’s where my FF3 install have been going - all the way from b1 to b5 and then from rc1 to rc3 - so no surprise).
Well, installation completed successfully, and I started FF 3 - but my title bar still says Build 2008052906 - even the file version has the same build ID.
Something’s up - don’t know what yet - but has anyone else had a similar experience?
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Posted by Raghu on April 2, 2008
Firefox 3 Beta 5 release today. Release notes and downloads here.
Installed it as soon as I got to know today morning and the first thing to check was whether Yahoo Mail still crashed. Initially, Yahoo Mail seemed to work alright for all of 50 seconds - quickly moving over items in inbox caused Firefox to crash 
Guess will wait for some more time. I’m sure there’s a bug report somewhere on this - Yahoo mail was broken on Beta 2, got fixed in Beta 3, then was broken in Beta 4 and is still broken on Beta 5.
Will wait for it to be fixed - Any idea if this is a firefox issue or a Yahoo! issue? Seems odd that script can cause the browser to crash so badly.
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Posted by Raghu on January 10, 2008
I’m having weird problems with firefox 3b2 on ubuntu gutsy - and as far as I can tell, I seem to be the only one. Did not find anything similar on ubuntu forums too.
Installed firefox 3 beta 2 from Mozilla to /usr/lib/firefox3b2 folder and created
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2007-12-30 23:44 /usr/bin/firefox-3b2 -> /usr/lib/firefox3b2/firefox
When I launch firefox3b2, I get firefox alright, however, in the location bar if I type in a url and press Enter, nothing happens - absolutely nothing at all. I have to go and click the green arrow for the browser to open the URL. The search box is even weirder - neither the Enter key works nor does the mouse!
I’m at a loss - and nor can I find any similar experiences on forums etc - ideas welcome 
SOLVED 01/20:Backed up my .mozilla folder and started firefox 3 b2 - no problems now
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Posted by Raghu on July 2, 2007
Okay - for the past few days I’ve been irritated with the browsing experience at home. Pages (google reader, Yahoo mail etc seemed inexplicably slower than before - but they’d load alright - just seemed that teeny weeny bit slower that’s enough to leave you suspicious).
I first suspected my ISP (verizon) for frequent dropped connections (saw the DSL modem lights reset a couple of times a day), then my wifi modem (not a high end one), then spyware/malware. So after the usual barrage of tests - wifi interference sources/anti virus/anti spyware/cable tests etc, I still hadn’t nailed it.
Finally, used procexp ( you can use plain ‘ole Task manager too - this is just flashier) and saw that FF had 330 MB of RAM with 3 or 4 tabs. Also, just plain clicking on a text box was slow, typing into a text field would echo characters after a noticeable delay - so this was definitely a browser problem.
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
– Sherlock Holmes
Ain’t that an apt quote??? I love the addons I have and probably I have one too many. This page on problematic addons was a life-saver - after disabling a bunch of infrequently used addons (stumble upon toolbar, google toolbar, browser sync, adblock filterset g, foxy tunes and some more), I’m back in browsing heaven. The only addons I have now enabled are
- diigo toolbar
- all in one gestures
- Adblock
- Flashgot
- Piclens
What a relief!
BTW, addons are also the latest attack vector. So be wary of who you let into your browser!
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Posted by Raghu on March 13, 2007
I discovered this - totally by accident.
In Firefox, you can use / (forward slash) to search for text OR links - and if its a link, then you can follow the link just by clicking Enter! That is way cool - especially when you’re on a laptop and cant/dont have your mouse around. I’ve always find it a pain to do a “link find” - ‘ (single quote) and a text find - ctrl-f separately…Never knew that there was a shortcut that did both and what more - its way natural if you’re used to ‘less’!!
To complete the keys for Firefox mouseless browsing,
- space - page down
- shift - space - page up
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