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Firefox 3.6.8 problems
I'm posting this here to keep track of things as I'm temporarily (I hope) without access to my beloved Firefox browser, and feel like I'm locked out of my home and office. Hadn't realised just how much I rely on using it...
Twitter and LJ clients (Tweetie and XJournal, respectively) are working fine. It's a bit like looking at the world through a back-to-front telescope, though - everything's very small and distant.
Firefox crashed at 7:45pm. On re-starting, I briefly saw the "updates installed" message - and then it crashed again. For the first few attempts, I thought something on the "restore your tabs" or "Firefox updated" pages was causing the problems. I've successfully Quit the program now (before it crashed), and can now go straight to the home page when loading the program.
It still crashes within about 5 seconds of starting up, though. It has also crashed when starting the program in "safe mode" - so presumably the problem isn't caused by any add-ons.
I managed to grab the following report IDs from about:crashes in the brief window between startup and the latest crash. There aresixnine report IDs from tonight, though I haven't reported every crash: the real number is ~20.
Submitted crash reports (from ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Crash Reports/submitted)
bp-9ce99ea1-5755-4387-972d-2121d2100809 9/08/10 11:20 PM
bp-fc27e8cf-0527-43b6-abb9-ff9102100809 9/08/10 11:17 PM
bp-490b0dd1-29db-43f8-8275-4cf082100809 9/08/10 10:35 PM
bp-e14a2528-f928-45bd-85f6-e831a2100809 9/08/10 10:31 PM
bp-39f0a91c-068f-4704-8ee1-4ceb22100809 9/08/10 8:51 PM
bp-9197117c-8f0a-4da1-b42e-baa592100809 9/08/10 7:55 PM
bp-e0f0ea43-3554-4fc4-85e7-0ab6b2100809 9/08/10 7:47 PM
bp-984c105b-914d-4198-b249-753392100809 9/08/10 7:46 PM
Pending crash reports (from ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Crash Reports/pending)
7A9BDE01-476D-4D1B-9DF4-1A413774AEA0 9/08/10 7:45 PM
Operating system: OS X 10.5.8
Firefox version: 3.6.8
Add-ons: Delicious, Zotero, PDF viewer.
Twitter and LJ clients (Tweetie and XJournal, respectively) are working fine. It's a bit like looking at the world through a back-to-front telescope, though - everything's very small and distant.
Firefox crashed at 7:45pm. On re-starting, I briefly saw the "updates installed" message - and then it crashed again. For the first few attempts, I thought something on the "restore your tabs" or "Firefox updated" pages was causing the problems. I've successfully Quit the program now (before it crashed), and can now go straight to the home page when loading the program.
It still crashes within about 5 seconds of starting up, though. It has also crashed when starting the program in "safe mode" - so presumably the problem isn't caused by any add-ons.
I managed to grab the following report IDs from about:crashes in the brief window between startup and the latest crash. There are
Submitted crash reports (from ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Crash Reports/submitted)
bp-9ce99ea1-5755-4387-972d-2121d2100809 9/08/10 11:20 PM
bp-fc27e8cf-0527-43b6-abb9-ff9102100809 9/08/10 11:17 PM
bp-490b0dd1-29db-43f8-8275-4cf082100809 9/08/10 10:35 PM
bp-e14a2528-f928-45bd-85f6-e831a2100809 9/08/10 10:31 PM
bp-39f0a91c-068f-4704-8ee1-4ceb22100809 9/08/10 8:51 PM
bp-9197117c-8f0a-4da1-b42e-baa592100809 9/08/10 7:55 PM
bp-e0f0ea43-3554-4fc4-85e7-0ab6b2100809 9/08/10 7:47 PM
bp-984c105b-914d-4198-b249-753392100809 9/08/10 7:46 PM
Pending crash reports (from ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Crash Reports/pending)
7A9BDE01-476D-4D1B-9DF4-1A413774AEA0 9/08/10 7:45 PM
Operating system: OS X 10.5.8
Firefox version: 3.6.8
Add-ons: Delicious, Zotero, PDF viewer.
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I haven't installed many add-ons, but the two that get used often (Zotero and Delicious) are indispensable. Having the address bar know exactly which page I'm after (from the first 1-3 characters) also speeds things up - I've put a lot of time into training Firefox over the past year and a half.
While using Safari last night, I really noticed the lack of support for multi-touch gestures (which is weird, as Safari is part of the operating system...). Learning a new set of keyboard and trackpad shortcuts would be a bit painful at the moment, given how many different things are in the "finish this yesterday" basket.