Firefox +1 Mega Thread

[lovinglinux]

I've installed an add-on, Mozilla Archive Format2.0.2, that will let me save web pages as .mht or .maff in addition to the usual defaults.

I'm more interested in the .maff format. But if I double-click on a .maff file to open it as a web page in Firefox, it does not open in Firefox but instead in Archive Manager which recognizes it as a .zip file (which it is).

I can open the .maff as a web page from within Firefox using Ctrl+O.

Is there some way to allow me to double-click on .maff files and have them open in Firefox the same way as if I had double-clicked on a .html file?

Edit: the solution should not affect the ability of other .zip files to be opened with Archive Manager!

I wasn't able to open in Firefox with double click, but you can use the "Open with" menu in the file manager or drag the file to a Firefox window.

[ericinwisconsin]

For reasons I won't go into here, I'm running Ubuntu 10.10. I have downloaded the tar file for Firefox 8 and installed it. I ran it as root and the upgrade went fine. However, only root is upgraded. The other users are still on Firefox 3.x. How can I upgrade the other users?

[drmrgd]

Rather than downloading and installing the package manually, why not add the Mozilla PPA for Firefox and use apt-get to install it? The PPA is here, and if I'm not mistaken you should be able to get and install the latest versions of Firefox much easier this way.

[ericinwisconsin]

I tried that, but it just reinstalled 3.x.

[crazy bird]

Best to do is adding the PPA of Firefox to your repositories:

- Open a terminal and type this command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable

- Then type:
sudo add-apt update

- Then type:
sudo add-apt remove firefox
- Then type:
sudo add-apt purge firefox*
(this will remove all firefox dependencies which are no longer needed)

To install Firefox 8:
- Type:
sudo add-apt install firefox

[teejay17]

A good article explaining that we won't have to wait too long in the future for Firefox updates: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/it...s-1386831.html

[mistacool]

Does this page display properly under FF8 for anyone? It doesn't on my system. A lot of sites seem to be off.

http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine

Chromium does display this page properly.

[huggs]

Does this page display properly under FF8 for anyone? It doesn't on my system. A lot of sites seem to be off.

http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine

Chromium does display this page properly.

That site displays fine for me on FF8

But I do have a problem with one site:

http://www.rushcard.com

It doesn't open instead it opens a download prompt window, treating the page as an .aspx file to download, and if I choose 'open with', and navigate to usr/bin/ and choose firefox, it opens some kind of super-simplified version of the page, like it's not interpereting it as HTML, but as like XML or something.

Don't know if that's the same kind of problem you're having, but I googled my problem, and can't seem to find a fix other than using Chrome for that site.

[Vaphell]

there is some sort of fail in the browser detection on that site. It recognizes your FF as a mobile browser and presents you with the mobile version of the website.

problem stems from the change in the user agent string from

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1

to

Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0

- install User Agent Switcher https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...gent-switcher/
- create custom entry without 'Ubuntu;'
- enable it as your user agent string

[lovinglinux]

A good article explaining that we won't have to wait too long in the future for Firefox updates: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/it...s-1386831.html

From what I understand, this was already happening.

Does this page display properly under FF8 for anyone? It doesn't on my system. A lot of sites seem to be off.

http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine

Chromium does display this page properly.

It displays correctly here on FF 9