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Old 02-23-2007, 10:46 PM
Scott
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NOTICE: Firefox users...

Mozilla just released security and stability updates to versions of
Firefox. Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2 and 1.5.0.10 have been released [1].

If you've got Firefox set to check for and install updates
automatically, you'll find it won't work properly due to a Vista-related
bug. It checks, downloads the update and notifies you to install, but
the installation will fail without notice [2].

I know of two ways around this:

1). Close Firefox. Right click on it's shortcut icon and select "run as
administrator". When you get Firefox up and running go to the help menu
and select "Check for updates". Follow the prompts from there. After
Firefox has closed and restarted close it again and re-start as a normal
user.

2). Do a full install of the latest version over the previous version [3]

[1] [url]http://mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=20520[/url]
[2] [url]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352762[/url]
[3] [url]http://getfirefox.ccom[/url]


I just thought I'd share....



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Old 02-24-2007, 12:15 AM
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Re: NOTICE: Firefox users...


The Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2 update just downloaded and after restate it
worked just fine for me without any problems.



"Scott" <geekboy@angrykeyboarder.comatose> wrote in message
news:%23TOxV89VHHA.1180@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Mozilla just released security and stability updates to versions of
> Firefox. Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2 and 1.5.0.10 have been released [1].
>
> If you've got Firefox set to check for and install updates automatically,
> you'll find it won't work properly due to a Vista-related bug. It checks,
> downloads the update and notifies you to install, but the installation
> will fail without notice [2].
>
> I just thought I'd share....
>
> Scott [url]http://angrykeyboarder.com[/url]
>
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> NOTICE: In-Newsgroup (and therefore off-topic) comments on my sig will
> be cheerfully ignored, so don't waste our time.[/color]



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Old 02-24-2007, 02:31 AM
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Re: NOTICE: Firefox users...

ghstbstr wrote:[color=blue]
>
> The Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2 update just downloaded and after restate it
> worked just fine for me without any problems.[/color]

Same here.

Alias[color=blue]
>
>
>
> "Scott" <geekboy@angrykeyboarder.comatose> wrote in message
> news:%23TOxV89VHHA.1180@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> Mozilla just released security and stability updates to versions of
>> Firefox. Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2 and 1.5.0.10 have been released [1].
>>
>> If you've got Firefox set to check for and install updates
>> automatically, you'll find it won't work properly due to a
>> Vista-related bug. It checks, downloads the update and notifies you
>> to install, but the installation will fail without notice [2].
>>
>> I just thought I'd share....
>>
>> Scott [url]http://angrykeyboarder.com[/url]
>>
>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>> NOTICE: In-Newsgroup (and therefore off-topic) comments on my sig will
>> be cheerfully ignored, so don't waste our time.[/color]
>
>
>[/color]
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Old 02-24-2007, 03:01 AM
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Re: NOTICE: Firefox users...

Same here.

"Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote in message
news:%23AVEj5$VHHA.192@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> ghstbstr wrote:[color=green]
>>
>> The Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2 update just downloaded and after restate it
>> worked just fine for me without any problems.[/color]
>
> Same here.
>
> Alias[color=green]
>>
>>
>>
>> "Scott" <geekboy@angrykeyboarder.comatose> wrote in message
>> news:%23TOxV89VHHA.1180@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>> Mozilla just released security and stability updates to versions of
>>> Firefox. Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2 and 1.5.0.10 have been released [1].
>>>
>>> If you've got Firefox set to check for and install updates
>>> automatically, you'll find it won't work properly due to a Vista-related
>>> bug. It checks, downloads the update and notifies you to install, but
>>> the installation will fail without notice [2].
>>>
>>> I just thought I'd share....
>>>
>>> Scott [url]http://angrykeyboarder.com[/url]
>>>
>>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>>> NOTICE: In-Newsgroup (and therefore off-topic) comments on my sig will
>>> be cheerfully ignored, so don't waste our time.[/color]
>>
>>[/color][/color]
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Old 02-24-2007, 03:16 AM
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Re: NOTICE: Firefox users...

Scott wrote:[color=blue]
> Mozilla just released security and stability updates to versions of
> Firefox. Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2 and 1.5.0.10 have been released [1].
>
> If you've got Firefox set to check for and install updates
> automatically, you'll find it won't work properly due to a Vista-related
> bug. It checks, downloads the update and notifies you to install, but
> the installation will fail without notice [2].
>
> I know of two ways around this:
>
> 1). Close Firefox. Right click on it's shortcut icon and select "run as
> administrator". When you get Firefox up and running go to the help menu
> and select "Check for updates". Follow the prompts from there. After
> Firefox has closed and restarted close it again and re-start as a normal
> user.
>
> 2). Do a full install of the latest version over the previous version [3]
>
> [1] [url]http://mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=20520[/url]
> [2] [url]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352762[/url]
> [3] [url]http://getfirefox.ccom[/url]
>
>
> I just thought I'd share....
>
>
>
> -
> Scott[/color]

There's an update for Fire Fox but I don't see one for Thunder Bird,
either using the update feature in Thunder Bird or going to Thunder
Bird's home page.

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Old 02-24-2007, 03:30 AM
Jonathan Schwartz 2
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RE: NOTICE: Firefox users...

Scott,

Double NOTICE for Vista users.

Do NOT *ever* install Firefox and Vista will never experience conflicts.

The best method for preventing user induced troubles and conflicts while
using Windows Vista; keep that in-secure nightly-build crap as Firefox far
away from Vista.

What you have factually accomplished; corrupted and polluted our worlds most
state-of-the-art OS, Vista.

Question for you; would you install Yugo parts inside a new Rolls Royce and
then complain how the new Rolls Royce no longer properly functions?
--
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Become Part of The Legacy!



"Scott" wrote:
[color=blue]
> Mozilla just released security and stability updates to versions of
> Firefox. Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2 and 1.5.0.10 have been released [1].
>
> If you've got Firefox set to check for and install updates
> automatically, you'll find it won't work properly due to a Vista-related
> bug. It checks, downloads the update and notifies you to install, but
> the installation will fail without notice [2].
>
> I know of two ways around this:
>
> 1). Close Firefox. Right click on it's shortcut icon and select "run as
> administrator". When you get Firefox up and running go to the help menu
> and select "Check for updates". Follow the prompts from there. After
> Firefox has closed and restarted close it again and re-start as a normal
> user.
>
> 2). Do a full install of the latest version over the previous version [3]
>
> [1] [url]http://mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=20520[/url]
> [2] [url]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352762[/url]
> [3] [url]http://getfirefox.ccom[/url]
>
>
> I just thought I'd share....
>
>
>
> -
> Scott [url]http://angrykeyboarder.com[/url]
>
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> NOTICE: In-Newsgroup (and therefore off-topic) comments on my sig will
> be cheerfully ignored, so don't waste our time.
>[/color]
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Old 02-24-2007, 03:31 AM
Alias
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Re: NOTICE: Firefox users...

Jonathan Schwartz 2 wrote:[color=blue]
> Scott,
>
> Double NOTICE for Vista users.
>
> Do NOT *ever* install Firefox and Vista will never experience conflicts.
>
> The best method for preventing user induced troubles and conflicts while
> using Windows Vista; keep that in-secure nightly-build crap as Firefox far
> away from Vista.
>
> What you have factually accomplished; corrupted and polluted our worlds most
> state-of-the-art OS, Vista.
>
> Question for you; would you install Yugo parts inside a new Rolls Royce and
> then complain how the new Rolls Royce no longer properly functions?[/color]

According to your "logic", one shouldn't install anything that isn't
made by Microsoft? If so you are sooooooooooooo wrong!

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Old 02-24-2007, 03:45 AM
Max
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Re: NOTICE: Firefox users...

May we quote you on that?
By golly, I just did!

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------

"Jonathan Schwartz 2" <JonathanSchwartz2@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:A6B7EDF5-B2A0-4030-B3A7-B19DE2E0AF16@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Scott,
>
> Double NOTICE for Vista users.
>
> Do NOT *ever* install Firefox and Vista will never experience conflicts.[/color]

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Old 02-24-2007, 04:15 AM
Scott
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Re: NOTICE: Firefox users...

ghstbstr spake thusly on 2/24/2007 1:03 AM:
[color=blue]
>
>
> "Scott" <geekboy@angrykeyboarder.comatose> wrote in message
> news:%23TOxV89VHHA.1180@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> Mozilla just released security and stability updates to versions of
>> Firefox. Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2 and 1.5.0.10 have been released [1].
>>
>> If you've got Firefox set to check for and install updates
>> automatically, you'll find it won't work properly due to a
>> Vista-related bug. It checks, downloads the update and notifies you
>> to install, but the installation will fail without notice [2].
>>[/color]
>
> The Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2 update just downloaded and after restate it
> worked just fine for me without any problems.[/color]

That it would, but did you happen to look at "About" under the help menu
to see what it says?

Does it tell you it's "2.0.0.2" (assuming you were using 2.0.x
previously). Mine still said 2.0.0.1 (till I fixed it, that is).

I'd read about this bug before which is why I checked after the update.
And as expected, the update failed (but you wouldn't know that - not
right away anyway).

--
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
NOTICE: In-Newsgroup (and therefore off-topic) comments on my sig will
be cheerfully ignored, so don't waste our time.
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Old 02-24-2007, 04:15 AM
Scott
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Re: NOTICE: Firefox users...

Alias spake thusly on 2/24/2007 3:27 AM:[color=blue]
> ghstbstr wrote:[color=green]
>>
>> The Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2 update just downloaded and after restate
>> it worked just fine for me without any problems.[/color]
>
> Same here.
>
> Alias[/color]

See my reply to ghstbstr


--
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
NOTICE: In-Newsgroup (and therefore off-topic) comments on my sig will
be cheerfully ignored, so don't waste our time.
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Old 02-24-2007, 04:15 AM
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Re: NOTICE: Firefox users...

Bobby spake thusly on 2/24/2007 3:57 AM:
[color=blue]
> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote in message
> news:%23AVEj5$VHHA.192@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> ghstbstr wrote:[color=darkred]
>>>
>>> The Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2 update just downloaded and after restate
>>> it worked just fine for me without any problems.[/color]
>>
>> Same here.
>>
>> Alias[/color]
>
> Same here.
>[/color]

See my reply to ghstbstr


--
Scott [url]http://angrykeyboarder.com[/url]

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
NOTICE: In-Newsgroup (and therefore off-topic) comments on my sig will
be cheerfully ignored, so don't waste our time.
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Old 02-24-2007, 04:15 AM
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Re: NOTICE: Firefox users...

Vista has no conflicts here, with Firefox installed. A release version of
course, not one of those 'nightly-builds'.

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"Jonathan Schwartz 2" <JonathanSchwartz2@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:A6B7EDF5-B2A0-4030-B3A7-B19DE2E0AF16@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Scott,
>
> Double NOTICE for Vista users.
>
> Do NOT *ever* install Firefox and Vista will never experience conflicts.
>
> The best method for preventing user induced troubles and conflicts while
> using Windows Vista; keep that in-secure nightly-build crap as Firefox far
> away from Vista.
>
> What you have factually accomplished; corrupted and polluted our worlds
> most
> state-of-the-art OS, Vista.
>
> Question for you; would you install Yugo parts inside a new Rolls Royce
> and
> then complain how the new Rolls Royce no longer properly functions?
> --
> Windows Vista
> Become Part of The Legacy!
>
>
>
> "Scott" wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Mozilla just released security and stability updates to versions of
>> Firefox. Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2 and 1.5.0.10 have been released [1].
>>
>> If you've got Firefox set to check for and install updates
>> automatically, you'll find it won't work properly due to a Vista-related
>> bug. It checks, downloads the update and notifies you to install, but
>> the installation will fail without notice [2].
>>
>> I know of two ways around this:
>>
>> 1). Close Firefox. Right click on it's shortcut icon and select "run as
>> administrator". When you get Firefox up and running go to the help menu
>> and select "Check for updates". Follow the prompts from there. After
>> Firefox has closed and restarted close it again and re-start as a normal
>> user.
>>
>> 2). Do a full install of the latest version over the previous version [3]
>>
>> [1] [url]http://mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=20520[/url]
>> [2] [url]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352762[/url]
>> [3] [url]http://getfirefox.ccom[/url]
>>
>>
>> I just thought I'd share....
>>
>>
>>
>> -
>> Scott [url]http://angrykeyboarder.com[/url]
>>
>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>> NOTICE: In-Newsgroup (and therefore off-topic) comments on my sig will
>> be cheerfully ignored, so don't waste our time.
>>[/color][/color]

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Old 02-24-2007, 04:15 AM
Scott
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Re: NOTICE: Firefox users...

Jonathan Schwartz 2 spake thusly on 2/24/2007 4:16 AM:[color=blue]
> Scott,
>
> Double NOTICE for Vista users.
>
> Do NOT *ever* install Firefox and Vista will never experience conflicts.
>
> The best method for preventing user induced troubles and conflicts while
> using Windows Vista; keep that in-secure nightly-build crap as Firefox far
> away from Vista.[/color]

Funny, I thought most regular Firefox users were running released
versions and not nightly builds.



--
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
NOTICE: In-Newsgroup (and therefore off-topic) comments on my sig will
be cheerfully ignored, so don't waste our time.
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Old 02-24-2007, 04:16 AM
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Re: NOTICE: Firefox users...

Jonathan Schwartz 2 wrote:[color=blue]
> Scott,
>
> Double NOTICE for Vista users.
>
> Do NOT *ever* install Firefox and Vista will never experience
> conflicts.[/color]

What about the post I looked at earlier today that spoke of problems with
Roxio software?

What about MSN Messenger - not Firefox, causes problems with Vista.

Ooops. Thanks for playing.


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Old 02-24-2007, 04:16 AM
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Scott wrote:[color=blue]
> ghstbstr spake thusly on 2/24/2007 1:03 AM:
>[color=green]
>>
>>
>> "Scott" <geekboy@angrykeyboarder.comatose> wrote in message
>> news:%23TOxV89VHHA.1180@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>> Mozilla just released security and stability updates to versions of
>>> Firefox. Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2 and 1.5.0.10 have been released [1].
>>>
>>> If you've got Firefox set to check for and install updates
>>> automatically, you'll find it won't work properly due to a
>>> Vista-related bug. It checks, downloads the update and notifies you
>>> to install, but the installation will fail without notice [2].
>>>[/color]
> >
> > The Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2 update just downloaded and after restate it
> > worked just fine for me without any problems.[/color]
>
> That it would, but did you happen to look at "About" under the help menu
> to see what it says?[/color]

Yes, it says 2.0.0.2 on three machines.

What I *don't* see is an update to Thunder Bird.

Alias[color=blue]
>
> Does it tell you it's "2.0.0.2" (assuming you were using 2.0.x
> previously). Mine still said 2.0.0.1 (till I fixed it, that is).
>
> I'd read about this bug before which is why I checked after the update.
> And as expected, the update failed (but you wouldn't know that - not
> right away anyway).
>[/color]
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