Firefox 2 on Windows Vista

Benjy Grogan

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Sep 28, 2006, 6:55:04 PM9/28/06

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Hello,

What is the state of affairs of Firefox 2 on Windows Vista RC1? I
installed beta2 of Firefox 2 on Windows Vista RC1 a couple weeks ago,
and today I let Firefox 2 download the update from beta2 to rc1 as an
Administrator on the system. All went fine, and I followed Firefox's
advice to restart the browser but nothing changed. It still said Beta
2, in the title bar and the About dialog. In the Update History it
lists the update to rc1 as 'Install Pending'. I rebooted the system,
and tried all manner of different accounts / logging in and out to no
avail.

I finally got Firefox 2 rc1 on Vista by simply reinstalling it, and
then afterwards removing beta2 because it was listed alonside rc1 in
the Program Manager.

When I do install Firefox 2 as a beta2 or rc1 it will ask me do I want
to continue, which I figure it should also ask if I were to do an
update for Firefox 2 (but it doesn't). Is this a UAC problem, or some
kind of Vista permissions thingy?

Benjy

PS: Other than that Firefox 2 running smoothly on Vista.

Robert Strong

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Sep 28, 2006, 7:40:19 PM9/28/06

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We are working on it. See
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352420

Robert

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Benjy Grogan

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Sep 28, 2006, 9:00:39 PM9/28/06

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On 9/28/06, Robert Strong <rst...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> We are working on it. See
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352420

Is the failure to update from beta2 to rc1 on Vista known? I couldn't
find it before when I did a search of the bugzillas.

Benjy

Robert Strong

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Sep 28, 2006, 9:05:45 PM9/28/06

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The following is at least in part if not entirely responsible for the
upgrade problem on Vista
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354226

Benjy Grogan

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Oct 5, 2006, 6:39:34 PM10/5/06

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Is there a support group out there for users running Firefox 2 on
Vista? I've also had difficulties (read no go) getting Quicktime to
work on Firefox and it runs nicely on IE7.

Will Vista support slowly make it's way into Firefox 2.x, or is it
more scheduled for Firefox 3? Or both?

Benjy

Robert Strong

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Oct 5, 2006, 7:03:32 PM10/5/06

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Benjy Grogan wrote:
> Is there a support group out there for users running Firefox 2 on
> Vista?

No. The forums are a good place to ask for support though
http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php

> I've also had difficulties (read no go) getting Quicktime to
> work on Firefox and it runs nicely on IE7.

Please file bugs on items that don't already have bugs.

>
> Will Vista support slowly make it's way into Firefox 2.x, or is it
> more scheduled for Firefox 3? Or both?

Firefox 2.0.0.x support is being evaluated as we make progress with
adding support for Vista. Support on Firefox 3.0 is a given IMO

Chris Ilias

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Oct 5, 2006, 7:58:04 PM10/5/06

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_Benjy Grogan_ spoke thusly on 05/10/2006 6:39 PM:

> Is there a support group out there for users running Firefox 2 on
> Vista?

mozilla.support.firefox on this server, is for Firefox user support.
(any OS, any version)

The equivalent mailing list is at
<https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-firefox>

For a listing of all Mozilla newsgroups, see
<http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums.html>.
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Chris Ilias
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Mozilla links <http://ilias.ca>
(Please do not email me tech support questions)