Mozilla Fire fox 9.0 Final

All 42 addons I had installed are compatible with the new Firefox 9 (I use NoSquint and it's working ok).

 

The problem lies with "Addon Compatibility Reporter.xpi" and not with other addons.

Best regards,

KOR!

 

NoSquint or a similiar is built into Firefox now, and NoSquint is no longer required.

Go to View > Toolbar > Customize ... and the - + is there.

Best regards,

KOR!

 

It doesn't have the number of options NoSquint has.

 

I clean installed works well on W7 64 bit, noticeably faster and easy on resource impressive.

 

For anyone interested I did get it working on the laptop. I started Firefox in safe mode (which requires holding down the "Shift" key while launching since the have removed the menu shortcut) and disabled all of the add-ons. It then started up normally and I proceeded to enable them back one at a time. I expected to eventually find the one causing the problem, but all of them are now enabled and it still works.

 

8.0.1 is the latest.

 

I don't really trust that 'About Mozilla Firefox' window much to be honest. I had to update to 8.0.1 from Mozilla's site as it kept telling me 8.0.0. was up to date.

 

8.0 and 8.1 are the same, aside from 8.1 having a stability fix that only affected Firefox being run on Apple computers, or something like that.
So 8.0 is up to date (aside from 9.0 now being released) for the vast majority of users.

 

Did they seriously jump from 8.1 to 9?

 

OK thanks, that makes sense. Still no sign of Fx 9 ...

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#Version_release_table

 

It's not that weird really. A number is a number, and it looks like version 8 was one of the less problematic releases in a while, so there was no need for 8.2 and so on. Btw, I agree with you in regards to Chrome fiddling around with features whilst Firefox is getting their performance record spruced up.

 

It's not like Firefox is without bugs haha they have loads of open bug reports.

Maybe I just haven't used a stable browser in a while. I get multiple updates throughout the month with Beta/Dev.

 

There is no browser without bugs, lol, that wasn't the way I was trying to put it. At least with Firefox I know things aren't going to wildly change from one release to the next, lol. With Chrome, I never knew what to expect, and their stable feels like being on a Beta/Dev to me

 

Really? That's interesting, I feel so far the opposite.

Chrome's UI has been fairly stagnant, with only the addition of themes and an area allotted for extensions whereas Firefox's UI has been going through major revisions within the last year.

Chrome adds extra features but they don't really effect anyone unless they go looking for them.

 

Actually, I figured out the problem, it was caused by Norton Internet security 2012 add-ons. I was searching for the Firefox v9 crash and found this link. So, before upgrading I disabled both Norton addons in v8.01, upgraded to v9, now firefox starts fine. I have left Norton addons disabled for the moment. Hopefully, Norton will release an update soon that will be compatible with Firefox 9.

See, if you also have Norton product installed. Just disable Norton's addons and leave the compatibility reporter installed and enabled. It is not the cause of the crash.

 

Your Norton internet security 2012 is causing the problem. Just disable those addons and v9 will start fine.

 

Yes, you are right NoSquint is not required, but I am used to it so I keep it. It also provides more functionality than the basic built in zoom functions of firefox. I usually stick with the products I use, as long as they don't cause me problems.

 

I think that it's not necessarily the main UI that feels like an ongoing experiment, but the behind the scenes things, whether that be the settings or "unseen" tweaks to the nuts and bolts. I don't know Hungry, I've at least attempted to use every Chrome version since 10, and it's just never a good experience. It never feels stable to me. Firefox on the other hand, yes, there have been some UI changes this year (I'd hardly deem them radical though), but for the most part things underneath have stayed settled. The only "problems" I've seen since about v 4, have to do with addons. No weird crashes, no stuttering performance, no one day it's this, the next day its that.

 

I think that update is for other operating systems (i.e. Mac). Mine still says 8.0 and up to date.

 

The Norton Toolbar support for Firefox 9 was announced about 5 hours ago. http://community.norton.com/t5/Nort...efox-9-Support-for-Norton-Toolbar/td-p/615563

 

The UI changes, while I think are great, seem fairly radical to me.

Chrome's backend has actually been changing somewhat - I think there's a new garbage collection policy either for HTML5 or Javascript that can give some fair performance improvements.

But for the most part the changes have consisted of adding new features, definitely.

I think Chrome 17 and 18 will be the next versions to implement significant performance changes.

 

Thanks.

Just updated Norton and now it is compatible with Firefox v9.

You know if I had just waited for the official release of firefox v9, I would not have encountered any problems

 

I have no issues in that department. I'm just hoping (in vain, I believe) that they'll see fit to add some sort of bookmarks sidebar, that can be pinned to the left side of the screen, pretty much like *every* other mainstream browser already contains. It's a feature that has been requested to be added to Chrome for years but Google has, somewhat inexplicably, given such requests short shrift.

I would seriously consider using Chrome as my primary browser if it had such a sidebar. Until that time, I'll be sticking to Firefox and using Chrome only occasionally.