SillyDog701

[Fulvio]

I noticed that with the rapid releases, one obvious problem has surfaced, consistently. Once upon a time, it was possible to do incremental updates. Now, incremental updates begin, and after they are, presumably, downloaded I get a notice that they could not be applied. Then, the entire file is downloaded, and all is well. This happened to me a few minutes ago, when I checked TB for updates, and only after the update was applied, I found out that it was for a new version, i.e. 8.0. And, of course, for all updates there is the compatibility check, which I had disabled. Some addons can be enabled, some can't. I have, just about, had it with this nonsense.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0

[James]

Fulvio... this is just a suggestion, mind you, so do with it what you wish. I do not "check for updates". Why bother? Firefox (and Thunderbird) "tells me" when it's time to update and it updates. And it's always been like this and I've never experienced any issues. In all sincerity... it has become increasingly irrelevant for the user to manually check these things. Microsoft tells me when critical updates are ready to be installed and I shut my computer down and allow them to be installed in doing so. My browsers (all of them) tell me when it's time to update and they do so. Norton Internet Security tells me when it has updated and that's fine with me. I'm more or less a passive viewer and the thing is this: my computer runs just fine... there are very few glitches or issues and my programs are up-to-date. I use my time for other things: writing e-mails, posting to Twitter and Facebook, chatting with my kids, posting on forums, searching for Christmas presents, checking our company's business for the day and so forth. Seriously... why bother with all the rest of it? That's yesterday's way of dealing with issues. Let TB and FF do it for you and I can almost guarantee you that your problems will vanish.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:9.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0

[Fulvio]

James,
in a perfect world, what you say is true. and, if may be for you, but not for me. Windows Updates don't let me know anything, and if they do, the installation fails. I reported to Microsoft, and, perhaps, tomorrow I will get an answer. May be it is my WinXP.
As for FF and TB, it should work, but, again it does not for me. May be my computer, which, otherwise works fine, is cursed. But, I, just, got an answer, at least for alpha and beta versions. There is The Addon Compatibility Addon checker. All addons are working in my 9.0b1, as of a few minutes ago.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:9.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0

[James]

Have you considered an exorcist? (just kidding)

Well... what can I say? If it's working for you, Fulvio, that's all that really matters. BTW... I keep threatening to get a Mac. I've this feeling deep down that things would be even better. My son has a Mac and he swears by it. I bought my wife and ipad2 and she loves it, although she continues to use her PC. Maybe my next computer will be a Mac... we'll see. They're just so expensive though.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:9.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0

[Fulvio]

James,
I have been considering a Mac (first machine which had owned), but even a new computer of any kind is matter of deep consideration. In fact, I don't intend to get a new computer. The warranty on yours truly may end before the computer stops working.
I did a reply from Microsoft, but I will not find out a thing until there is an update. Among the several suggestions, they had me reregister several .dll files, and create a new Software Distribution folder, unless something is corrupted. Other suggestions include the possibility that some third party software is at fault. That seems unlikely, because both AntiVirus and Firewall were around before the problem, first, surfaced.
Since I figured out ways to get updates, and install them, I may want to live with the issue.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0