Tenfourfox

Forget about the conundrum linked above, it appears to be solved.

Mrs H

BDAqua wrote:

did you check the song link I provided for you?

I did, but too deaf to hear any of it.

but it checks compatibility of add-ons each time it opens. I think that's because the HD has another Ff version on in -

Try this... Firefox>Preferences>Advanced>Updates... Automatically check for updates check boxes. 🙂

Deaf - you jest, right? or not? 😟

At least you were able to look at the lovely animations. (I have trouble recognizing humour sometimes...)

The external isn't conveniently open now and I'm currently on Ff 3.6.23, but I have it checked here as Automatically check for updates for all 3 - Ff, addons and search engines. I think it reads the same in v7. In any case, it's not that it's checking for updates, it's checking compatibility of addons.

I found the following about same but on earlier version - I haven't perused it well enough to figure out the solution here and hope it's easier than that:

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/810895?s=check+compatibility+on+start up&r=7&as=s

Mrs H

BDAqua wrote:

Deaf - you jest, right? or not?

Not jesting, not totally deaf, just very close to it.

Ah yes, good find, I think you've solved that one yourself.

Sorry to hear that...well, at least the pix is cute.

Solution? I found it on my own! 🙂

Do you think - am I reading this link correctly? - once I download Ff 7 to the iMac and am not accessing the pref file for another version since the other version will be gone, it'll not check for compatibility further? I hope so. (I do plan to keep a copy of 3.6x but in a separate folder not the app folder, perhaps in docs, so it'll be hidden from v7 🙂. but just there if v7 proves iffy)

Mrs H

BDAqua wrote:

Yes, as long as that setting gets updated, or you change it now to the version you use.

Last 2 replies here...

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/810895?s=check+compatibility+on+start up&r=7&as=s

I thought the last 2 sounded good, BUT the path that's shown (C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\yourprofilename directory you will find a file called "user.js") looks like a Windoze path to me - in any case, I couldn't find many of the folders mentioned - nor the end point doc, user.js. Maybe its there, but I know not where.

Hoping when I update the 3.6x and hide its dup copy out of the app folder that it'll resolve itself. Otherwise, I'll start whining again.😢

Mrs H

Still off topic 🙂 -

How does this look for my purposes? http://www.nirmaltv.com/2011/03/29/disable-add-on-compatibility-checks-in-all-ve rsions-of-firefox/ as long as I enable it each time I do an update...

Lion? I got it free as a downloadable uptodate item with my new iMac. I took the download and filed it in the I'm not going there file!

Mrs H

FYI, and FYI for anyone else who is reading this boring conversation we have had, once I installed Ff7.0.1 on the iMac and put 3.6.23 in a separate folder to isolate it just in case I wanted to revert, the annoying checking compatibility of add-ons stopped.

All is well.

Now if I could just figure out how to posit the NoScript icons, which used to appear in the lower right corner and which now appear only in the toolbar, back somewhere easy to see separate from the toolbar stuff I'd feel more secure.

Mrs H