Nightly Troubleshooting InformationThis thread is intended to be used by the nightly builds testers to post resolutions to some of the more common and not so common problems that arise from testing the official nightly trunk and branch builds.
Please feel free to add your own posts with advice and resolutions to the problems you have run across. Needless chatter and the like will be split at a moderator's discretion. It is proper to ask a question related to a specific post in this thread due to errors or misunderstandings. Problems with specific branch or trunk builds should be posted in the current branch or trunk nightly discussion thread. Please try and keep this thread as clean as possible to maintain its usefulness.
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he eats for a lifetime.
I like poetry, long walks on the beach and poking dead things with a stick. Please do not PM me for personal support. Keep posts here in the Forums instead and we all learn. Problem:
Minefield crashes when accessing certain pages (notably ebay search results) when Adblock Plus is installed Solution: Install the most recent development build of Adblock Plus: http://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/ Firefox 1.5 style tab close buttons...
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.tabs.closeButtons Extension compatibility checking override... http://kb.mozillazine.org/Extensions.checkCompatibility Running two or more versions of Firefox simultaneously... http://the-edmeister.home.comcast.net/a ... -file.html The batch method is not required anymore. FF2 and above support the -no-remote command line switch which replaced the environment variable.
Simply make a short cut with the command line 'firefox -no-remote -P "my_profile"'. Think for yourself. Otherwise you have to believe what other people tell you.
A society based on individualism is an oxymoron. || Freedom is at first the freedom to starve. Constitution says: One man, one vote. Supreme court says: One dollar, one vote. ^Well, shiver me timbers! How did I miss that? So, trolly (or anyone who knows), is this a correct example?
"C:\Program Files\3.0\firefox\firefox.exe" -no-remote -p "3.0" If you have a profile named "3.0" ...
Think for yourself. Otherwise you have to believe what other people tell you.
A society based on individualism is an oxymoron. || Freedom is at first the freedom to starve. Constitution says: One man, one vote. Supreme court says: One dollar, one vote. Is there a solution to Minefield setting itself as the default browser when updating?
Cusser, I've never had that happen. You're on XP, right? I couldn't find a bugzilla bug for that.
I would like to know that as well. That started happening some time back for me on XP. Now I have to keep "Always check to see if Firefox is default browser on startup" enabled in all my 2.0.0.3 profiles or they try to open with Minefield, even though I have my Minefield shortcut pointing to a specific profile.
Pretty sure that's caused by the workaround for the Vista bug where Firefox couldn't be made default browser Last edited by malliz on April 18th, 2007, 9:19 pm, edited 1 time in total.
What sort of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
"Terry Pratchett" It is. If someone posts a workaround they've found suitable, that would be great.
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he eats for a lifetime.
I like poetry, long walks on the beach and poking dead things with a stick. Please do not PM me for personal support. Keep posts here in the Forums instead and we all learn. On OS X, running both Firefox 2.0.x and a Trunk nightly build together is rather easy.
Quit the browser it is running. Open Terminal.app, and paste the following:
Firefox 2.0 will launch with the profile manager, and your default profile selected. Create a new profile or rename the default one if you wish. Make sure you uncheck the 'Don't ask at startup' box. Launch Firefox. Now you can launch Minefield as well, just like you would always do. The profile manager will open and you'll be able to select a new profile or create one for usage with Minefield. notes * The command above assumes you have Firefox installed in its standard location: the 'Application' folder. * You only need to run that command once. For all subsequent launches, the profile manager will open. Themes BREAK FAYT (Find As You Type)
If FAYT is failing for you or producing weird behaviors, uninstall/disable your custom/3rd party theme. I believe a lot of themes have to have the code dealing w/ FAYT updated so they can work accordingly. This issue is not new and has been around since the beginning or early stages of Minefield. Current: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007112000 Minefield/3.0b2pre
For kicks: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6 Here are my notes about getting nightly updates. I hope they're useful, please replace these with something more accurate. I'm not sure if these belong as a top-level post, or maybe additions to http://kb.mozillazine.org/Software_Update . http://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Update#Links has links to a lot of technical details of software update.
If you're using a trunk build, you may want to set Firefox's Help > Check for Updates to check for nightly updates. In the Minefield program directory, the file defaults/pref/channel-prefs.js specifies what channel to check, change this to "nightly". More details are in the KB article http://kb.mozillazine.org/Software_Update There are other settings for updates that you can view and change using about:config, all starting with "app.update." The browser gets information about any available updates by requesting the URL stored in the preference app.update.url, as of June 2007 this is https//aus2.mozilla.org/update/2/%PRODUCT%/%VERSION%/%BUILD_ID% /%BUILD_TARGET%/%LOCALE%/%CHANNEL%/%OS_VERSION%/update.xml The browser substitutes values for '%VARIABLE%', e.g. https://aus2.mozilla.org/update/2/Firef ... update.xml , and when you manually choose Help > Check for Updates it tacks ?force=1 on the end. (AUS stands for Application Update Service.) You can use an extension like Live HTTP Headers to see the Help > Check for Updates request. If successful, the server response is an XML file describing available updates. Note that in the case of any errors the default XML packet from the update server is an empty XML <updates></updates>, not an error message or 404. If there's no update available for a build... ??! What next? I just check the "Official [trunk] build" thread to see if anyone mentions problems, and keep retrying Help > Check for Updates. http://update-watch.localgho.st/ serves as a monitor for the nightly update system. Its first link takes you to a nightly update monitor that shows the state of the update for several product+version combinations:
If there is an update available, the XML file will have an update entry describing it. This usually has a URL for the patch, e.g. http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... -04-trunk/ firefox-3.0a6pre.en-US.win32.complete.mar. A patch update ends in .mar (for "Mozilla ARchive"). If the updates XML file is empty but there is a .mar file and you're sure you know what you are doing, it is possible to download the .mar file and do a manual patch; see http://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Update ... a_MAR_file Last edited by spage on December 10th, 2008, 4:01 pm, edited 5 times in total.
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