Firefox 2.0.0.5 Released (and 2.0.0.6)

MarcLister · 31 Jul 2007 at 18:42

Just updated mine. Thanks for the heads up tolien.

tolien · 31 Jul 2007 at 20:04

Jimmy1983 said:
still get the same message

The only FF process that was running iin TM was the FF browser which I closed.

Weird

If you keep retrying, it should eventually grab and try the full update.

Duke · 31 Jul 2007 at 21:33

Got it, ta. Good to see quick patching.

NickM · 1 Aug 2007 at 02:36

Just installed 2.0.0.6 (via Autoupdate) and now when I search google from the searchbar it doesn't give me the "pages from the UK" option .. its as if I searched from google.com. Any ideas?

Elston · 1 Aug 2007 at 10:39

Went to manually update this, but noticed that the 'Check for updates' option had a spinning wheel or cog next to it. I presume this indicates that it is downloading the update?

After 30mins i checked it again and it was still doing it (thought this must be a big update

). Restarted Firefox and clicked it manually and it download fine. But when i restarted it to apply the fix it failed to load, no error message or anything. According to task manager it was already running, so killed the process and it would take over 5 minutes before it would disappear from the process list.

Rebooted the machine and it seems to be working fine now. First time I've ever had any problems with the update. :confused:

tolien · 1 Aug 2007 at 11:37

Elston said:
Went to manually update this, but noticed that the 'Check for updates' option had a spinning wheel or cog next to it. I presume this indicates that it is downloading the update?

Yep. If the partial fails to download, it'll go off and download the full update (which is ~8MB).

NickM said:
Just installed 2.0.0.6 (via Autoupdate) and now when I search google from the searchbar it doesn't give me the "pages from the UK" option .. its as if I searched from google.com. Any ideas?

What does the text at the bottom of Help -> About $app say?

MarcLister · 1 Aug 2007 at 12:11

The partial download has NEVER worked for me. It'll try, fail, then download the full install.

Any idea why? When Firefox first became capable of this, I thought it was a brilliant plan to reduce the time it took to update FF but also reduce the server loads when new updates were released.

tolien · 1 Aug 2007 at 12:38

MarcLister said:
Any idea why?

Pass. The only reason the partial should fail is if
a) you're trying an update that there isn't a partial for (e.g. en-GB -> en-US, or skipping a step like 2004 -> 2006)
b) the partial fails to install (repeatedly trying it with a Fx process in the background would trip that)
c) the partial isn't available (trying the update before the partial makes it out) - you shouldn't see this one really, it's more of an issue with nightlies

This makes a good point about AUS:

Firefox is able to update about 90% of its massive user base to the latest version in less than a week. Based on independent data, which our data corroborates, Firefox users are more up to date than users of any other web browser. The only way to achieve that kind of success is with an automatic software update system.

(my empasis)
It would be nice if Opera would replicate such a system.

MarcLister · 1 Aug 2007 at 12:45

tolien said:
Pass. The only reason the partial should fail is if
a) you're trying an update that there isn't a partial for (e.g. en-GB -> en-US, or skipping a step like 2004 -> 2006)

Nope. 2005 > 2006.

tolien said:
b) the partial fails to install (repeatedly trying it with a Fx process in the background would trip that)

Don't think so.

tolien said:
c) the partial isn't available (trying the update before the partial makes it out) - you shouldn't see this one really, it's more of an issue with nightlies

Again, nah.

tolien said:
This makes a good point about AUS:

(my empasis)
It would be nice if Opera would replicate such a system.

Ooh nice read.

NickM · 1 Aug 2007 at 15:35

tolien said:
What does the text at the bottom of Help -> About $app say?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6 so it does appear to be UK edition

tolien · 1 Aug 2007 at 15:47

NickM said:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6 so it does appear to be UK edition

What about Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General -> Languages -> Choose?

See here too.

NickM · 2 Aug 2007 at 00:02

Excellent thanks the link in that thread fixed it.

Jimmy1983 · 3 Aug 2007 at 18:01

tolien said:
Weird

If you keep retrying, it should eventually grab and try the full update.

Finally found out the problem, needed to disable the tea timer in Spybot S&D

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=572292