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Firefox upgrade: 3.5.8? 3.6?

Muse

Muse

Lifer
On one machine I'm running 3.5.7 and Firefox has been bugging me to upgrade to 3.5.8. Of course, this always happens when I access my browser, so I say "later." I've been seeing some posts about 3.6, saying it's good, etc. Why then isn't Firefox offering me the 3.6 upgrade instead?
 
It always does it 1 step at a time. If your a few versions old, you'll have to update a few times to be current.
 
Not really sure why but i've seen this happen also. I just end up downloading the installer manually in that case.
 
you shouldn't hold off on security updates. last number being incremented generally means a small patch for things like security holes.
3.6 is just a new version number adding new features, i believe both .5 and .6 will be kept up to date for a while right?
 
I just looked it up and according to mozilla: Firefox 3.5.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until August 2010.
 
Do you have ietab installed? That add-on isn't supported in 3.6, and it (or another add-on not supported in 3.6) could keep FF from recommending you to upgrade to 3.6.
 
Since updating to 3.6, non-generic bookmark icons are now displayed as a site is visited. Since in private browsing mode they are not retained between sessions however previously they were not displayed at all which is is my preference. Is there a switch to disable this feature (from "about:config")?
 
Auric said:
Since updating to 3.6, non-generic bookmark icons are now displayed as a site is visited. Since in private browsing mode they are not retained between sessions however previously they were not displayed at all which is is my preference. Is there a switch to disable this feature (from "about:config")?
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Try setting this to false...


browser.chrome.site_icons;true
 
I was also running 3.5.7 & FF asked if i wanted to upgrade to 3.6, so i did. One of my add-ons wasn't working properly so i went back to 3.5.7
Now it's asking me to upgrade to 3.5.8
😕
 
because 5.8 came out after 3.6
.8 is a security patch for 5.7
you don't skip those.
those don't break plugins.
 
kalrith said:
Do you have ietab installed? That add-on isn't supported in 3.6, and it (or another add-on not supported in 3.6) could keep FF from recommending you to upgrade to 3.6.
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Unsupported add-ons would not keep Firefox from updating.

You should be using Coral IE Tab instead because AFAIK IE Tab is no longer being developed.
 
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