Journal smooth wombat's Journal: Mozilla takes a page from /. 3
Installed a new PC for one of the higher ups and was going through the process of configuring the newest version of Firefox (3.6.11). I wasn't able to do a copy and paste into the new, empty, profile directory of the users profile so I had to create one from scratch. After that, I figured it was easier to just go to the four web sites and rebookmark them rather than trying to do a copy and paste.
However, in my travels, I found that the option to not submit crash reports would not stay unchecked. I would uncheck it, click OK then come back in and it was rechecked.
I don't want to submit crash reports from this user's PC. They wouldn't know what to do with them anyway.
So I went to look for the 3.6.10 version. Found the ftp link but get this server message:
ISA Server: extended error message :
200 Switching to Binary mode.
200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
550 Permission denied.
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If one follows Mozilla's own directions on how to get an older version, you can't (at least I can't). Add in the fact that a simple checkbox won't stay unchecked and that when you delete some of the extraneous entries in the bookmark directory you are still left with lines, one begins to wonder if Taco and Company are giving advice to the Mozilla folks.
No, I'm not submitting a bug report. I'm not creating ANOTHER account somewhere just to let them know. This is my bug report. Anyone with connections or who has an account can submit it for me.
And more P.S. Taco
Your journal system still sucks. Having to turn on javascript is asinine. Get off yours and drop this nonsense!
Apparently not a bug (Score:1)
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Breakpad [mozillazine.org]
"Mozilla Crash Reporter is enabled by default and there is no user interface to disable it."
Instructions for disabling crash reports follow that text in the link.
Many versions, checked 3.6.10 and it was there
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/ [mozilla.org]
Re: (Score:2)
Thanks, but that then begs the question, why is the checkbox there which gives the impression that you can turn it off? If you can't turn it off through the user interface, why not remove that option and let people change it through about:config (like so many other hidden options)?
I'll have to check my 3.6.10 install because I thought it did work correctly.
Also, I'm still not able to download the 3.6.10.exe file. I can get to it, just not download the file. It doesn't matter if I use Fx or IE. Both will
Re: (Score:1)
I searched bugzilla and found 3 bugs that look the same issue
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580592 [mozilla.org]
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577221 [mozilla.org]
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558561 [mozilla.org]
No idea why you can't get 3.6.10 - won't it just ask to update anyway?