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An Update

June 2, 2008 Tags:

It’s been brought to my attention — repeatedly — that I neglected to post anything for the last month and a half. Oops.

I upgraded my macbook to 10.5.3 earlier tonight. Upon reboot, everything was shiny till I attempted to launch Firefox. It did one little bounce in the dock and gave up. Attempting to run it from the terminal in safe mode was no better.

Of course, OS X does its best to insulate the user from the system, so finding useful logs was out of the question. All /var/log/system.log told me was that Firefox exited with error code 1.

In a fit of desperation, I deleted my version of Firefox and downloaded Firefox 3 RC1. After the install, it launched. So now I’m running that less-than-polished software.

I’ve been running the Firefox 3 betas on my Ubuntu machine at work since February or so. Each release seems to get progressively worse: they’re all of them unstable, slow, and have an annoying new address bar. Now that I made the mistake of updating the work machine to Ubuntu 8.04, I’m stuck with using Beta 5 everyday. (Dear Canonical: Please don’t ship stable releases with beta software. Thanks.) I’ve enjoyed coming home to the stable, usable, and speedy Firefox 2.

To be fair, my Firefox 3 experience up to now was limited only to the Linux versions, and I’d not used the release candidate on any platform. So far, RC1 on OS X doesn’t seem too bad.

4 Comments

  1. June 2, 2008 at 11:05 PM Permalink

    That’s weird. I updated to 10.5.3 and Firefox 2 still works for me. I heard that Firefox 3 is right around the corner too, but the Firefox 2 problem sounds weird. Did you try reinstalling it?

  2. June 3, 2008 at 9:54 AM Permalink

    No, I didn’t try to reinstall 2. I’m going to give 3 a shot for a while and see if the RC is any better than the betas.

  3. June 3, 2008 at 11:38 AM Permalink

    Does iceadvanced.net lag?

  4. June 3, 2008 at 11:45 AM Permalink

    It might crash Firefox.

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