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[Fulvio]

My settings were to ak me what to do, but b3 started downloading the entire file.
At least, it listened to me when I chose to restart 9.0b2 later.
The Netscape page alleges full extention compatibility with Firefox2 something (unspecified).
I have had MediaPlayerConnectivity forever, and ColorfulTabs for quite a while, but they were declared incompatible. No problem thanks to NightTesterTools.
Just enough to be annoying.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7pre) Gecko/20070815 Firefox/2.0.0.6 Navigator/9.0b3

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"I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards."
WinXP, SP2, FF2.0.0.17, FF3.0.3 portable, TB2.0.0.17, IE7.0, Opera9.52, SM1.1.12, Safari3.1.2, Sygate5.6; AVG8.01, JRE1.6_07

[Antony]

Thanks for informing us, Fulvio.

This is the first Netscape 9.0 Beta I've ever installed myself. My quick impression so far is positive.



UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7pre) Gecko/20070815 Firefox/2.0.0.6 Navigator/9.0b3

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MozInfo701 | MacCentre701 | AntBlog701 | don't steal music.

[Ginkan]

[Fulvio]

I said Beware because Antony had been indignant when Firefox did exactly that, i.e. updating and installing itself. I, never, had the problem exhibited by NS9b3, which went on to download itself, while I was doing something else. I could not do anything while it was downloading the entire file, and then the installation occurred on startup.
I was never asked what to do, as my settings were.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007081312 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre

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"I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards."
WinXP, SP2, FF2.0.0.17, FF3.0.3 portable, TB2.0.0.17, IE7.0, Opera9.52, SM1.1.12, Safari3.1.2, Sygate5.6; AVG8.01, JRE1.6_07

[mpowell1234567890]

Firefox themes do not work.. I tried installing them but I get a incompatibility error..
Is there a way to fix it? Is there a patch that will fix it?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7pre) Gecko/20070815 Firefox/2.0.0.6 Navigator/9.0b3

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Michael Powell

[James]

It's beta, guys. You have to recognize that it's just not going to work the way a final release will.

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)

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James
It's later than you think.

Firefox 3.0, IE 7

[Fulvio]

I am using Nightly Tester Tools as aid to avoid compatibility checks. It has worked pretty well.
Some addons have given me errors, but nothing that I could not operate.
As James said, it is still beta, and, the developers are managing to mess up, sometimes.
As for Addons, contrary to what is, genrally, thought, it is not up to the program to make the Addons compatible., but the other way around.
Still, I, and others who have had Addons installed, have had reports that the Addon was not compatible (I got four out of eight treated that way). I just ignored that, and the Addons worked. At this point, they are still messing with the Firefox base, and some problems do crop up.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a7) Gecko/2007080210 GranParadiso/3.0a7

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"I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards."
WinXP, SP2, FF2.0.0.17, FF3.0.3 portable, TB2.0.0.17, IE7.0, Opera9.52, SM1.1.12, Safari3.1.2, Sygate5.6; AVG8.01, JRE1.6_07

[mpowell1234567890]

Idid try that, but I get the invalid page error. It even happens when I press use theme on the default theme.

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.590; .NET CLR 3.5.20706)

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Michael Powell

[richard mitnick]

Gee willikers,

Hey, you guys, how is everyone?

I did the update on all four computers, which no problems. I just started .09beta2, nothing happened, I went to check for updates, I found the update, it took about 20 seconds. I think that I did need to re-start the browser in each case, but that was it. I don't have much in the way of extensions, just IETab and Colorful Tabs.

>>RSM
New Jersey weather: soggy, feels like Fall, but Summer is coming back later in the week.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

[macallan1824]

[macallan1824]

[Fulvio]

If you may, take a look at the extention compatibility thread at ufaq.org.
Briefly, although some extentions may be called incompatible, they work fine. Maybe the developers have to refine this point. However, I found that the Forecastfox extention was giving me errors, no matter what. Jay Garcia made some changes in the extention, and I still got errors. Finally, after removing any Forecastfox extention, I launch a search and destroy mission, which yielded several lines of Forecastfox in files like localstore.rdf (unexpected), or prefs.js (expected). After editing everything, the extention was installed.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

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"I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards."
WinXP, SP2, FF2.0.0.17, FF3.0.3 portable, TB2.0.0.17, IE7.0, Opera9.52, SM1.1.12, Safari3.1.2, Sygate5.6; AVG8.01, JRE1.6_07

[jjssparkle]

(Chuckle) Just a suggestion: Don't go experimenting with experimental softwares (betas and alphas) on your primary machine if you've got an old secondary machine booted up somewhere in the house ...

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

[Fulvio]