RichardB Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Got a laptop here XP with Firefox 3.6 installed, can view anything, but cannot create a new posting (lets me click New Topic but not do anything else). Also cannot Reply to any existing post; just can't type into the main box. Weird. Any thoughts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted February 20, 2010 Author Share Posted February 20, 2010 Others laptops OK; the one I'm on now has Firefox 3.5.8 on it and, whilst, old and slow (like me) it works fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 Others laptops OK; the one I'm on now has Firefox 3.5.8 on it and, whilst, old and slow (like me) it works fine. I updated Firefox 3.5.8 to Firefox 3.6 about 2 weeks OK As usual with Firefox the upgrade was quick, smooth and problem free. My computer is running Windows XP and I use Firefox rather than IE8 for all my Sheffield History stuff. Not had any problems with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 It could be a fault caused by a Java add on if the ability to post uses Java applets. When I upgraded from 3.5.8 to 3.6 Firefox informed me on startup as 3.6 that it had disabled a Java version which was no longer compatible. This required a restart of Firefox and on restarting Firefox found a newer, compatible version of Java which it installed (requiring another restart) straight away and then worked normally. Has Java been disabled in Firefox because it is not a compatible version? Have you got the latest Java for Firefox? The latest one appears to be version 6.0.18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart0742 Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 Got a laptop here XP with Firefox 3.6 installed, can view anything, but cannot create a new posting (lets me click New Topic but not do anything else). Also cannot Reply to any existing post; just can't type into the main box. Weird. Any thoughts. I tried Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 whilst in Beta Testing last year, had similar problems, so reverted back to 3.5.8 Does 3.6 still have the daft name it had whilst in Beta ( NAMOROKA) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 I tried Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 whilst in Beta Testing last year, had similar problems, so reverted back to 3.5.8 Does 3.6 still have the daft name it had whilst in Beta ( NAMOROKA) No, it just says Firefox version 3.6 on the home page, although they do advertise with a daft name. The use of daft names is fairly common with free / open source and especially Linus applications. Each new update to Ubuntu seems to have a daft name as well as a version number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markbaby Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 Firefox 3.6 with Java 6.0.18 works OK for me on win2000 Also downloaded the flagfox add-on. Never realised that Sheffield History's server is in Turkey! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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