Following the Mozilla Firefox 3.5.4 update that we talked about last week here at SoftSailor, Mozilla now releases the Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5 update.
This time we are still not enjoying any new features, nor we get any security issues fixed (probably no serious security problem was found), but the Firefox 3.5.5 update does fix a number of bugs. 3 of these bugs have been considered critical, with one of them being introduced by the 3.5.4 update (the GIF decoder in Firefox 3.5.4 for Windows caused the browser to crash quite often). In addition, a problem with the fonts that caused frequent (compared to the total number of Firefox crashes) Firefox crashes at startup was also fixed.
The update will be delivered by the auto-update feature included in your Firefox. If that did not happen, you can always go to the Help menu and click on “Check For Updates”.
If you did not have any version of Mozilla Firefox installed on your computer but want to get the browser with the Firefox 3.5.5 update included, click here for a free download.
Funny…I just updated to 3.5.5 and it crashes so often its unusable.
I’m having probems with 3.5.5. Wish I had 3.5.4 back.
I had some weird problems with it.
everything was working normally with the previous session,
when i opened firefox the second time there were all kinds of problems:
there was a “Well this is embarrassing”
page showing and when i clicked the home button the page wasn’t the one in the home page setting, then i noticed the scrollbar was on the left, furthermore i couldn’t scroll with my mouse wheel. When i typed something in the search form i got a warning message that the connection isn’t secure and when i clicked send anyway nothing happened.
Does anybody have an idea on what could have caused that?
The 3.5.5 upgrade also eradicated my home page.
After I type in a URL, hitting enter has no effect (i.e. pages don’t load)
Restarting gives me a “well this is embarrassing page.”
Some of the windows I’d previously had open did not come back.
Clicking on “options” brings up an empty dialog.
etc., etc.
I’m not sure what I’ve done to tickle these problems, but until it’s resolved I recommend avoiding the 3.5.5 upgrade
Brent,
Are you using Norton Antivirus by any chance? I was testing the beta of their latest version and it installed two firefox plugins that were causing the crash. All I had to do was disable those…
Andy, thanks for the reply.
My problems turned out to be related to the SwitchProxy Tool 1.4.1 add-on. Based on the comments at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/125, it looks like this add-on is not compatible with 3.5.5
With the SwitchProxy add-on disabled, firefox is working for me again.
Others experiencing problems after the 3.5.5 upgrade should try disabling add-ons.
Ref: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_%28Firefox%29
Been away for a week, but yeah i think there’s definitely
an add-on problem. I installed a fresh copy of firefox
“without any add-ons” and every thing was working normally.
Did previous firefox versions had such problems?