Re: Firefox 17.0.1

[passingby]

I have been using google chrome for about a year now. It saves TW changes if there is a Tiddlysaver file there. Firefox is such a memory hogger, I took to using it only sparingly. But recently my firefox installation upgraded itself to 17 and it stopped saving TW changes. I did not like it at all and decided I did not need latest Firefox in the first place itself. I uninstalled FF and then downloaded FF14 and did an install. It saves changes as before. Additionally I configured it to not download upgrades at all. I don't think I need any upgrade.

I plan to continue using chrome for daily use. I use FF only because chrome often fails to display Indic character correctly, which I need off and on. I am not technically sound on browser thing but as a lay person I cant see why I should move onward from FF14 if everything is working okay.

On Sunday, December 9, 2012 6:14:48 PM UTC+5:30, juan lobo wrote:

Hi all,
I've been using TiddlyWiki several years, and I'm super happy ... so far, good at first when I went to save new changes tells me the following:

It´s not possible to save changes. Possible reasons include:
- Your browser doesn´t support saving (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera all work if properly configured)
- the pathname to your TiddlyWiki file contains illegal characters
- The Tiddlywiki HTML file has been moved or rename

The browser I use is Firefox 17.0.1, but ... I tested with other browsers, Safari, Chrome ... and I get the same error. I changed to version 16.0.2 and it works.

Is there any chance of working with the new version?


I would appreciate help,
Thank you very much.

[Corey S]

I still haven't figured out why Mozilla insists on a roughly 6 week upgrade cycle. Business won't go for it. Most (large ones anyway) need a couple months to make sure there aren't any kinks in the new program. Mozilla gets a huge amount of money from Google (US$360 million last year I think), it wouldn't surprise me if they picked up the update timing from them.
We need a seperate browser, one that is nice and light, that can run all the time.
Or maybe Mozilla should fix the *&^% memory leaks. Been a problem since at least FF3.

[PMario]

no comments, just links.
http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/browse_thread/thread/98d8ade76381ad1f?hl=en#

On Dec 10, 11:30 am, Corey S <corey.l.schm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I still haven't figured out why Mozilla insists on a roughly 6 week upgrade
> cycle.

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all.html

> We need a seperate browser, one that is nice and light, that can run all
> the time.
> Or maybe Mozilla should fix the *&^% memory leaks. Been a problem since at
> least FF3.

https://areweslimyet.com/faq.htm
https://areweslimyet.com/

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink

[Jeremy Ruston]

If you're having problems with Firefox 17.x I'd recommend trying out the new beta of TiddlyWiki 2.7.0:

http://tiddlywiki.com/beta/empty.html

Best wishes

Jeremy

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Corey S <corey.l...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you for this information. Lots of reading to do I guess. :)

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[srk]

Hello all,

I have tested the new beta  2.7.0 using Firefox 17.0.1, TiddlyFox 1.0alpha8 on WinXP. I get the same error messages as the original poster. The same thing happens with all my other Tiddlywikis. In the Firefox tools menu, the TiddlyFox extension appears in red text, and when I select this item, I get the little dummy popup but no way to confirm that I want to edit.

Any advice appreciated.

Steve Kirk

[Kosi2801]

Hi,

thanks for the hint, but TW 2.7.0 still throws error upon trying to save in the recent Firefox 17.0.1

Thanks,
 KOsi

[tiziano de togni]

Il 12/12/2012 13:04, Jeremy Ruston ha scritto:
> If you're having problems with Firefox 17.x I'd recommend trying out the
> new beta of TiddlyWiki 2.7.0:
>
> http://tiddlywiki.com/beta/empty.html
>

Maybe there could be a nice, temporary, workaround
for FF17.x and maybe FF18.

Today, reading the answers to this question:
http://support.mozilla.org/it/questions/943216

I found this link:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Site_Compatibility_for_Firefox_17#Security

That says:
----
Changing the value of a hidden pref
security.enablePrivilege.enable_for_tests to true can test this feature,
but of course it's not recommended. You should find a workaround like an
add-on where privileges are actually required.
----

Actually I have not a FF17 to verify it,
if someone could try and tell if this is true that would be very
interesting,

regards
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tiziano de togni
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[Kosi2801]

Still does not work, at least not for me :(

It may be interesting to note, that this was no behavior introduced with FF 17, but with the update 17.0.1

br,
 Kosi