webrep plugin vs firefox v6!

[=SKY=]

Hi guys,

as I wrote in another thread to the problem:

In german avast!-forum you can find this way to use WebRep with FF6 (edit the install.rdf (with notepad) as you see in that post after you have deactivated the self protection from avast!):

http://forum.avadas.de/threads/3411-Mozilla-Firefox-6.0-Release?p=31480&viewfull=1#post31480

After editing the install.rdf, activate the self protection of avast! again.

Start FF6. Ready!

[Tinsby]

After the install of FF v 6 yesterday, all 7 of my Java Console add-ons were rendered INCOMPATIBLE with v6! Of course so was Avast WebRep. No one in the FF forum had any ideas other than to install the compatibility program and run it. LOL heck I can see these programs aren't compatible without it!

I ended up re-installing v 5.0.1 of FF and turned OFF the auto updates. The plan is to have new versions of FF coming out so fast no one will ever be able to keep up with them.

Sad to see a trusted browser become such a problem after using it for so many years.

J T

[warlock]

No one in the FF forum had any ideas other than to install the compatibility program and run it. LOL heck I can see these programs aren't compatible without it!

If you actually bothered to install that compatibility addon, you would be running v6 with WebRep and your Java fully functional right now.

Sad to see a trusted browser become such a problem after using it for so many years.

That has nothing to do with Firefox, it's entirely a problem of avast, there were 6 weeks of time to test and update the addon, more than enough time to get it updated before Firefox 6 was out.

[=SKY=]

Sad to see a trusted browser become such a problem after using it for so many years.

Yes, the "version-race" of firefox seems more important for mozilla...

[DavidR]

Which doesn't make a whole lot of sense when you consider from FF7 08 FF8 they want to dispense with displaying the firefox version (crazy), so not in Help, About, but will be buried deep in one of the about:xxxxxxx pages (not about:config which most know about).

I mean why the version race if they are going to hid the version.

[Gopher John]

After the install of FF v 6 yesterday, all 7 of my Java Console add-ons were rendered INCOMPATIBLE with v6! Of course so was Avast WebRep. No one in the FF forum had any ideas other than to install the compatibility program and run it. LOL heck I can see these programs aren't compatible without it!

I ended up re-installing v 5.0.1 of FF and turned OFF the auto updates. The plan is to have new versions of FF coming out so fast no one will ever be able to keep up with them.

Sad to see a trusted browser become such a problem after using it for so many years.

J T

For the vast majority of Java end-users, Java Console is not needed at all.  I routinely remove even the latest from Firefox after a JRE update, and Java still works fine in Firefox.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2145701

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2175305