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Thu, Aug 06, 2009

[Icon][Icon]Updating Firefox

• Post categories: Omni, FOSS, Technology, Helpful

I know that most of the people who read this blog use Firefox. That's expected.

I *also* know that most people aren't using the latest version, the 3.5 releases. Far more people are on one of the 3.0's

I know that sometimes it's better to take your time upgrading because then your extensions are likely to work. But I also know that it can take a long time for Firefox to actually give you the alert that there's a new release and prompt you to upgrade it. Even worse, it can do so so fleetingly that you don't actually get time to click the thing.

So just in case it'll be helpful, I thought I'd pass along this tip: When checking for updates to extensions, you head to the "tools" menu. But when you think there's a more recent version of FF itself, go the to Help menu and click "Check for updates"

And then you can see if FF 3.5 is worth all the fuss people have been making over it ;o)

3 comments

Krazy Kitty
Comment from: Krazy Kitty [Visitor] · http://amrhaps.net/english
If you got your Firefox bundled with Ubuntu, you cannot actually directly update it until they are ready for it. But you can install it from source, alongside with 3.0, see here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxNewVersion for Jaunty/Karmic.

(I've just done it and... boy... something's wrong with the anti-aliasing.)
07/08/09 @ 07:38
Krazy Kitty
Comment from: Krazy Kitty [Visitor] · http://amrhaps.net/english
(Apparently it was hinting, not anti-aliasing. Anyway, it's solved now, by removing the files /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-* if anybody wonders.)
07/08/09 @ 07:50
oneandoneis2
Comment from: oneandoneis2 [Member] · http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/
Fonts used to break for me all the time when I upgraded FF on Gentoo - bugged me a lot until I found a work-around. It's in the blog archives somewhere, I think I over-rode the fonts so that an anti-aliased font was used in place of a non-AA one..

Haven't got any Ubuntu installs to have a play with at the moment, sadly..
07/08/09 @ 09:04

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