Blair’s Brain And Other Unfocused Things

Well. it’s OK, but now https://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/ checks only Flash, Java and Windows media plugins. Other plugins, like VideoLAN, is not checked.

Could you not fix the SSL cert error? It would be good to send this around the office so that people can check if their plugins are up to date.

It lists only Shockwave & Java (which are both up to date).

It doesn’t list these ones that I’ve got installed:

- Flash
- Acrobat
- Silverlight
- Windows Media
- A few others (e.g. Microsoft Office, Windows Presentation Foundation)

Running Firefox 3.5.3 (en-gb) on Windows XP.

Ian: You’ll notice the address is on a staging server, since it’s still being tested. When it’s rolled out to production it will have a valid SSL certificate.

This is an awesome Fx feature. I think it will really help improve the quality of the browsing experience when popular plugins are kept up to date.

@Ian – Flash should be detected properly, can you give your OS, Flash version, etc https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=addons.mozilla.org&component=Plugins

Part of testing is where capturing “unknown” plugins to bootstrap the database. Thanks for helping.

Hi. Firefox 3.6 beta 1 has been released. The “Welcome to Firefox 3.6 Beta 1″ page points to this page.
http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.6b1/whatsnew/

Many people will see this page, follow the staging server link, and encounter the “Untrusted Connection” warning.

I suggest replacing the staging server link in this blog post with
http://www.mozilla.com/plugincheck/

you are the best thank you mozilla

Dear All,

many thanks for your valuable ideas which are fully workable and interesting.

Thanks / Samadi

just going to try 3.6

I am having trouble with the adobe flash and it is asking me to close the firefox. And I can’t to figure out how to do that. All because I need to download the adobe flash on my desktop. But yet I was successful to download the latest version of firefox 3.6. any idea help please

it seems good. I have been working of Safari for last 5 years. It will take some more time to get used to its goodness compared to Safari.

mozilla is superb &faster i like it

tanks

just try …

so, am I able to use “old” plugin in 3.6?

good

The uploading to FireFox 3.6b1 English (US) has been quite smooth and older version FF3.5.5 add-ons are intact. Yes it is wonderful to get the warning to update older version of say Adobe Flash as that could effect in secured and safe browsing. But would have been more pleased if the update link was provided, though would not search for that link and update the same manually after searching.

First impression is that inspite of FF3.6b1 being Beta it has got lot accomplished already and do look to give feedback as get using it more frequently.

I think that is a good idea featuring versions include a new feature; a compatibility mode for plug-ins not compatible with last versions.

Is this the only fucking information from mozilla how to fix a plugin that worked until 3.5? Are you fucked up at mozilla, not to provide ANY information about how to pass your bullshit plugin check besides some foreign bullshit blog? damed…

Blair,
I have recently downloaded 3.5.7 and I have been having problems with:

1. SSL Certificate Error Messages and “Warning: Contains unauthenticated content” on the Yahoo Login page where before I upgraded Firefox, this Login page showed the Lock symbol on the Status Bar.

Now it shows a Lock symbol with a Red Exclamation Mark with the Warning message!

If I go to another webmail site, I would have to view the SSL Certificate on that page and select corresponding SSL Certificate. This gets pretty annoying. Will SSL Certificate be updated?

2. When I click on the Out of Date button on the Plugin-Checker page, it opens a Google search results page rather than what you mentioned above. Or is this a new feature applicable only to 3.6?

3. My Bookmarks that I added with the One-Click Icon on the Address Bar are not being bookmarked at all. The same happens when I select Bookmark This Page as well.

Thanks so much.

Getting off the subject just a little,but I have been using Firefox for quite a while and it has always been better than IE, but just barely. I liked the add- ons and extras that firefox provides. The speeds on my 10mbps dsl connection up to version 3.5 of firefox have been just OK, with adblock and better privacy installed. I tried faster fox and all of the tweaks with not much improvement. I switched to the test version of 3.6 and it blew me away with the speed and fast page loading. Now that it seems to be out of the test stage, I uninstalled 3.6 test and reinstalled 3.6 and I am getting the same results, The pages just snap into place instead of a so so loading. I hope that it helps others and that you can see a difference. I’m ecstatic, and hope that a future version of firefox won’t be over developed and hamper this improved speed. THANKS!!! DEVELOPERS this version rocks.

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It was disappointing to install FF3.6 and discover that over 75% of the Plug-Ins that I use, like, and rely upon are “incompatible” and simply will not work in 3.6; according to the onscreen messages. I had no choice but to uninstall 3.6 and put 3.5 back on. I am simply too busy to deal with an additional hassle trying to re-learn what does and does not work right with my web browser.

I assume you are not screening and deleting any comments that are not totally complimentary, although it is odd what an incredibly high percentage of effusive praise and worship is being expressed with a notable absence of critique, or [dare I say it?] criticism…

That said, as a programmer and [no foolin'] Internet pioneer, I still find it a major pain to get stopped and sidetracked every time I open a browser, application, etc. to do a job and get hit with “you need to STOP what you are doing and DO WHAT WE SAY before you can do the WORK you came here to do”. This is one of the most annoying things about Windows, especially if you are a person who had been using X for almost 20 years when Windows was invented – and it’s worse than ever now….

In trying to improve the World’s best browser (IMHO) be mindful to allow update SUGGESTIONS to have an OVERRIDE CHOICE unless the security issue is a calamitous “show-stopper” of a problem, else you will run the risk of becoming as annoying, nannyish, and dictatorial as so many of the M$ apps and features that derail the task at hand.

A word of warning about how many add-ons will be disabled by the installation of 3.6, PRIOR to download and install, would be a courteous touch as well. After STOPPING and reading up on why the upgrade was so disruptive, I understand why so many add-ons are not re-written; now if I can just remember what it was I was doing when I innocently decided to take 3 minutes to upgrade to 3.6 and wound up killing the last part of the day…… I understand the price of progress is sometimes higher than usual, but a “heads-up” about 3.6 would probably be appreciated by those used to quick, easy, compatible upgrades of Firefox, which 3.6 ain’t. In a month, this should be a dead issue, but for those eager early adopters like me….. Thanks and keep up the great work!
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