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John
Can I turn it off somehow? It's not a "feature" that I appreciate.
Firefox ships with the settings to update automatically, but you can choose to just have it notify you instead.
Jim
There have been more than a few people wondering why they got a 1.5.0.1 update when there is no announcement on any of the Mozilla sites. The update you are getting is the 1.5.0.1 release candidate mentioned here.You are, whether you knew it for sure or not, a beta tester! How did this happen? Simple - you installed Firefox 1.5b1 or 1.5b2 and then used the auto-upgrade system to move to the 1.5 final release.
Since you installed a beta and never re-installed Firefox from the full installer your update “channel” is beta - which means you are willing to run beta versions of Firefox
What the heck is this 1501 update? [developer.mozilla.org] - from developer.mozilla.org
Hey, so am I! And I didn't know it either!
I've never installed a beta version, so I suspect this is a bug, and they actually have turned on the update, but haven't updated the info page yet.
Following the instructions on the page you linked to, I find that my "channel" is "release" not "beta," so I think things are a bit mixed-up right now. Also, the path to this channel preference in those instructions is incorrect: Its actually in <firefox install dir>\defaults\pref\channel-prefs.js (note singular "pref" in directory path.)
Jim
I know I'm not a beta tester because my channel-prefs.js file contains the line
pref("app.update.channel", "release");From the link tedster posted:
Since you installed a beta and never re-installed Firefox from the full installer your update “channel” is beta - which means you are willing to run beta versions of Firefox. You can confirm this by opening the file {firefox install dir}\defaults\prefs\channel-prefs.js in a text editor. If line 2 looks like this:* pref(”app.update.channel”, “beta”);
you are on the beta channel
If you want to only receive the final release updates you can simply change this line to:
* pref(”app.update.channel”, “release”);
save the file and restart Firefox. Alternatively, if you run the full 1.5 installer it will make this change for you.
EDIT: jdMorgan, you beat me to it. Yes it does look as though things are a bit mixed up.
John
* Improved stability.
* Improved support for Mac OS X.
* International Domain Name support for Iceland (.is) is now enabled.
* Fixes for several memory leaks.
* Several security enhancements.
Odd, I visited an Icelandic website (and it didn't work) a week ago.
Firefox won't update from 1.07 to 1.5.0.1, only from 1.5 to 1.5.0.1 and later. Firefox 1.07 and 1.5 are on different "branches" off the development trunk, so there is no direct 'update' path from 1.07 and you have to remove 1.07 and download/install 1.5.0.1 (your standard config settings shouldn't be affected by doing this.)
In other words, this is an "upgrade" not an "update" from 1.0.7 to 1.5.0.1.
If upgrading breaks any of your installed extensions, you can look for a new compatible extension version first, and then if there isn't a newer version, you can try "forcing compatibility" using the "Nightly tester tools" extension. This basically just disables the compatibility check so Firefox will try to use the old extension; The old extension itself may or may not work, depending on how truly-compatible it is.
Jim
John
No, I've been using "Firefox" since it was called "Phoenix," and I've never lost bookmarks or config settings in all of those upgrades.
Was there anything at all unique about your installation? -- Did you always install to the default user and directories?
You might want to look to see if the latest installation might have created a new "user profile." If so, then your bookmark file may still be present under the old profile, and you can simply copy it over to the new profile.
In WIndows XP, the bookmarks are saved by default to the profile directory at:
C:\Documents and Settings\<Windows_username>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<named_profile>-or-<random_string.default>\bookmarks.html
Jim
C:/Program Files/Mozillla Firefox/defaults/profile/bookmarks.html (Default Firefox bookmarks)
Created: 26 September 2005, 09:56:47
Modified: 06 February 2006, 09:30:02 (Time when I updated to Firefox 1.5.0.1)
C:/Documents and Settings/<username>/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/<random_string.default>/bookmarks.html (One new bookmark)
Created: 26 September 2005, 09:56:57
Modified: 07 February 2006, 09:46:20
Just noticed a bookmarks.bak file in the Documents and Settings folder, but it’s the same as my new bookmarks file (only one bookmark).
Looks like my bookmarks ended up in the Program Files dir, which was overwritten when I updated yesterday. To answer your question jdMorgan, I installed the update to the default settings and there was nothing unique about my installation.
