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fthieme

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Registered: 2008-12-30

Posts: 16

Firefox upgrade 3.0.5-1 breaks brief

After this update brief is simply blank as shown here: http://brief.mozdev.org/drupal/node/317

According to the developers brief is working great with 3.0.5

BTW: Why is firefox still saying Gran Paradiso?

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Firefox upgrade 3.0.5-1 breaks brief

To answer your Grand Paradiso question:

Arch can't ship the official branded Firefox because of licensing issues. It is 99.99% exactly the same as Firefox. You have some choices here. Either you can go into about:config and set
general.useragent.extra.firefox to Firefox/3.0. This will tell the world what browser that you're using. Or, you can install Firefox branded from AUR (if it will build):

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18019

fthieme

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Registered: 2008-12-30

Posts: 16

Re: Firefox upgrade 3.0.5-1 breaks brief

I guess it doesn't fix the brief issue, as it worked before the update...

I don't care about the cosmetical things, but I want to use brief

enrique

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Registered: 2005-10-25

Posts: 95

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Re: Firefox upgrade 3.0.5-1 breaks brief

There is a bug report about it: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10968

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Kind regards, enrique

fthieme

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Registered: 2008-12-30

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Re: Firefox upgrade 3.0.5-1 breaks brief

Ahh, I see - it never occured to me looking at the error console...

skottish

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Re: Firefox upgrade 3.0.5-1 breaks brief

I wanted to post this here because I thought that someone may find this interesting. I tried to install brief just to see if it worked on my system (before we knew what was happening). Some, possibly all, of my other extensions, as well some, if not all, of my privacy settings were overwritten. I first noticed that oldbar wasn't working. After I removed brief, it went back to normal. It wasn't until later that I realized that cookies weren't being deleted at the end of my session like they should be. I don't know if it was because brief failed, or if it's up to no good.

skottish

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Re: Firefox upgrade 3.0.5-1 breaks brief

Bump to update.

That extension left all sorts of files in ~/.mozilla even after I removed it. Firefox has been behaving very strangely ever since I installed it (changing settings on cookies management and such). I deleted my .mozilla folder in order to get rid of all traces of this extension. I'm going to file with Mozilla to look into it. Yikes!