Mozilla's Patched Firefox 7 Breaks Sync

[alidan]

you know people who don't know anything about this beyond "my extensions don't work" and "they cant be doing anything in a 6 weeks period of time" realy shouldn't post in these articals.

 

[xerroz]

So far I've never had any problems. Most of these issues seem to be on the user errors...

 

[maddad]

No problems here at all, not on my Windows 7 32 bit desktop, my Win 7 64 bit laptop or the Ubuntu dual boot install on both machines.

 

[eddieroolz]

See what happens if you try to speed up the cycle without due care?

 

[AMD X6850]

[citation][nom]__-_-_-__[/nom]I did have sync problems until yesterday. all fine now, including add-ons.[/citation]

Yeah that was cos they were doing maintenance.

 

[Guest]

http/gs.statcounter.com/#browser-sa-monthly-200807-201110

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the story release... The sync error messages are constant. I'll just ignore them, I guess, until they fix it.

 

[del35]

FF 7 is a great browser, but they need to patch a few glitches. There is nothing worse than Shitfari that stupid jail.

 

[jtennison]

[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]you know people who don't know anything about this beyond "my extensions don't work" and "they cant be doing anything in a 6 weeks period of time" realy shouldn't post in these articals.[/citation]

Hey, dude, chill! This isn't the Firefox Developers Forum. If The Moz listened to more real end-users, they would never have gone to Rapid Release cycles. 95%+ of users are not developers, and do not enjoy life on the "bleeding edge". They are simply trying to get some work (or play) done. And if upgrades break things every 6 weeks or so, they are not happy campers. Stability is what makes for satisfied users. Most do not care whether the new version is X% faster that the previous one.

 

[bv90andy]

I say they should go to a daily release cycle... it seems they are really getting a hang of the fast releases.

Or even better, make it so that when a developer inputs a line of new code into their editor, the line automatically gets compiled and sent to our PCs.

 

[sailfish]

Who in Mozilla told THW that Fx 7.0.1 broke Sync? The Mozilla representative I heard from indicated that the problem had nothing to do with 7.0.1 but rather a larger than expected load on their servers.

Come on, THW, fess-up and reveal your Mozilla source.

 

[Guest]

Jeez, I was ever so happy with firefox until I downloaded 7! My acquitistion of link immediately slowed down to a crawl. MANY times I would watch the thinking symbol swirl around until I became exasperated and shut inet down. I am now using Explorer with google and it is outperforming firefox by 1000% I tried one of the firefox support (guruaid) who told me that I had numerous errors reported starting two months before (coincindentally when I downloaded ff7) and said they would fix it if I would subscribe to their service. I declined and started using Explorer instead. Problems solved!

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]jtennison[/nom]Hey, dude, chill! This isn't the Firefox Developers Forum. If The Moz listened to more real end-users, they would never have gone to Rapid Release cycles. 95%+ of users are not developers, and do not enjoy life on the "bleeding edge". They are simply trying to get some work (or play) done. And if upgrades break things every 6 weeks or so, they are not happy campers. Stability is what makes for satisfied users. Most do not care whether the new version is X% faster that the previous one.[/citation]

1) most extensions that work in ff4 work in the newest version, though my may have to forced it.
2) you don't have to upgrade every time they release a new version, this is a SHOCKING concept to MANY people.
3) just because the whole experience doesn't change doesn't mean there aren't improvements,

right now mozilla is going at it with an attitude of just do it, instead of lets put that it later.

 

[AMD X6850]

The biggest issue here is, Mozilla (and it might just be the one guy that wrote that who thought so) said they "may have" broken sync.
That is not that case for many people.
The title is misleading. It hasn't broken for most of us and I doubt it will for most of you.

 

[Guest]

I upgraded two weeks ago and had at least ten programs that were incompatible. I restored to a previous date and been gone since. They put the crap out so fast so the users can do the work for them and send in all the fix and bug reports. What was once a competant and reliable browser with unlimited potential is turning into a made in China POS. They're taking themselves right out of the market. It's almost like their being run by the Government!!