firefox update 1.5.0.1

Be carefull. I applied this update, about 750kb, and it slowed down FF so that
pages were taking 10/11 seconds to load.

Finally, i went back to previous version.

savagcl

 

Did you do the update from Help|check Updates?
I will try it, but, most important I want it to be stable.

 

I have autoupdate turned on and it notified me.

Interested to see if you have simular problem.....

savagcl

 

Wow! I did the update as you mentioned, and, wow! is it fast. It lost the Roboform, which I got earlier today, for 1.5. But it has speed to burn.
And it is not as bad in memory usage, about 48MB, instead of the customary nearly 60. Now, I will be taking it for a spin.
By the way, 1.5 is supposed to be much slower than 1.0.7. I do not make much of the initial loading, but it renders fast after that. I start with 6 tabs, and four of these are pretty intensive, including msnbc.com in the IE mode.

 

Clif,

I would download the offline installer: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5.0.1rc1/win32/en-US/

Uninstall the current version, and then install 1.5.0.1rc1. I find it incredibly fast, certainly faster than 1.5.

I don't like the online upgrades and never have, plus I usually have an excellent experience with a clean install, i.e., uninstall exsisting version, program files, and reboot before installing upgraded version...

 

I did the online update, expecting the worse, but this is a good thing. Fast (only Opera beats it) and much less of a memory hog. And, it has not crashed on shutdown, yet.

 

I have not noticed any appreciable change in memory usage.
One thing I did notice is that I INSTALLED to a NEW separate directory and it honked up the add/remove section of Control panel.

Only showed ONE Mozilla FireFox 1.5 ( I previously had and still have -FF 1.5 Final).....
add/remove points to uninstall for the 1.5.0.1 install.....ergo - looks like no way to uninstall FF 1.5 Final via control panel.

regards:captjlddavis

 

My Add/Remove had Mozilla Firefox 1.5, and it is now Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1.

 

Ff 1.5.0.1

Just installed on-line. No problems. Results:

Way FAST!! Memory usage down to HALF! Didn't time load up but it's simply screaming now. Very impressed so far.

Bob

 

Interesting to see all the different results. I find it very fast, and page rendering seems to be instantaneous.

Westside,

You say that Add/Remove lists Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1? On my system it is listed as 1.5, and I did a clean install...

 

Ineresting!

I did as you suggested Ramona and now its working fine. So much for the
auto-update process. I will ignore it from now on.

thanks,
savagcl

 

No clean install here, and, I have 1.5.0.1 in the Add/Remove, matching what was said in Help|About Mozilla Firefox.
I am using now a beta version of K-Meleon1.0, also based on 1.5.0.1.
The original 1.5 was installed in a folder of its own, and I am using the original 1.5 profile. By the way, it did bring up Talkback after installing an extention, and restarting the program. I can't remember if 1.0.7 ever did that my 1.5 did it once, and 1.5.0.1rc1 did it on every exit. That's why I went back to 1.5. So, I was having my trepidations.

 

clif,

Good to hear that all is well. I don't know if you remember in the old days of Netscape Communicator 4.xx, there was a "SmartUpdate" which is the equivalent of the Fx autoupdate component. It rarely worked and caused a lot of headaches for users.

 

I never had a Smart Update work in NS4.x, as well as the stub installer. I kept getting messages that connection was closed "by peers ". (not my peers!)

 

Just to muck up the waters. I did forget to mention that I tried autoupdate and it went thru its --whatever it does and reported that it could not complete the installation.

Checked "about firefox" and sure enought it noted the version to be 1.5.0.1. So did the Add/Remove listing.

It's still screaming along -- so far very stable.

Bob

 

Bob,

Weird that you and Westside are seeing the 1.5.0.1 in Add/Remove. Remind me, do you run Windows XP?

Thanks!

 

Yep, XP SP1. SP2 hates my notebook.
Bob

 

I, also have XPHome SP1. I learned from a friend of mine, when SP2 came out, to stay away from it.
My 1.5.0.1 is still coming up with the Quality Feedback Agent, on exiting. This started with 1.5.0.1rc1. I got it once with 1.5, to which I went back from the rc1, and once with this build. A total of six times. There must be something wrong, but I cannot see a pattern. It did it twice at this website, once at my bank website, and once after installing an extention. I did my report. It is not so bad to have it once in a while, but I wish I knew why. Everything goes smoothly when I am in the browser.

 

Ramona,

Yes, I do remember "SmartUpdate ". I guess the word "Smart" was supposed
to mean something, anything except "Smart ". I stopped using it after the first
attempt since i found out it was the opposite of smart.

Interesting, my add/remove shows as: Mozilla Firebird (1.5).

savagcl

 

I think that we should take a Census.
As for the "smart" update, I had dubbed it dumb update. But what is happening here is somewhat insane.
I am sure of one thing, i.e. that 1.0.7 will remain my default browser, and, if anything I may use Seamonkey1.0.