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[Makoto]

If it was my only system and I was using Firefox on the Puppy system more than SM, maybe. I'm not at my Puppy system right now, so maybe I'll try some of the checks later, when I can.

I've heard the update checkers in Firefox/Thunderbird also do some additional checks to see whether or not you can run a certain update for other reasons (hardware/software, such as stopping Win9X/ME users from updating FF past a certain point). Maybe there's another reason other than some sort of block at the update servers for my FF not 'seeing' the newer versions. v17-19 do act very strange on my Puppy setup, after all, though it's surprising it never throws any sort of error message.

I'd think if it was a matter of being unable to access the update server, Firefox would at least display a simple error message, in that regard. (Also, wasn't there an extension to change the update server, or was that just to switch update channels?)

Edit: Okay, semi-long day.

Here's the app.update.url value:

[Semme]

63.245.217.44 should've been among those results.

Did you add that bit to your hosts file?

Where does https://aus3.mozilla.org/ take you, FF?

Redirect to http://www.mozilla.org/*

With extensions disabled: firefox -safe-mode

[Makoto]

Yes, I added "127.0.0.1 aus3.mozilla.org" to hosts, like you asked.

Before, https://aus3.mozilla.org/ would load, then redirect to www.mozilla.org. With the hosts entry in place, it just throws the Unable to Connect error, now.

As for Safe Mode, you can also use Help > Restart with Add-ons Disabled..., right? But, no, it won't connect to https://aus3.mozilla.org/ then, either (and the update check still thinks 16.0.2 is up-to-date).

[Semme]

Say Makoto- are you using your old *.default profile when you fresh install? Have you tried with a clean one?

[Makoto]

Yeah, I've tried it with both a default/blank profile and my regular profile, when I was trying to get v18 to work. No change.

[Semme]

Makoto- you use private browsing mode or keep a cache and hang onto cookies?

[Makoto]

The latter. Never really tried private-browsing mode.

[Semme]

Ha! Stale cookies.. Remove all aus2.mozilla.org and aus3.mozilla.org entries and I'll bet update loads..

[Makoto]

No. I said above that I tried it with a completely new/blank default profile (and nothing else in the .mozilla directory except my Seamonkey profile data; recreated my FF profile afterward), and it didn't work, remember?

[Semme]

Sure do.. Had to be sure. I can only think of your save file at this point..

[Makoto]

Nah. It's just that for some reason, Firefox thinks my setup isn't worthy of the more recent versions.

Everything else works fine (including Firefox, in general), and it's not really a big issue, so... (Although technically, I should be running Puppy 5 on this hardware, over Puppy 4.3.1. Someday, maybe. Probably five months after Puppy 6 is released. )

[nooby]

The surprising thing is that it do say that my FF17 is the latest.

I tried to make a screeny of it but that failed.
But reading it and manually retelling it says.

"17.0 Firefox is up to date.
You are currently on the default update channel."

and I delete all cookies each time I shut it down
so ???

What could mess it up would be that I have the .mozilla
manually moved to /mnt/home/.mozilla and that way
maybe it look in wrong place? But it has worked before
on other puppy. Lupu updated from 12 to 16 to 17 and
I had that one on the mnt home too.

How bad is it to drive with 17 instead of 19?

[Semme]

Is moved to /mnt/home/.mozilla via symlink? And no, 17's not a biggie so long as....

[nooby]

I tried to do as kickstart recommended in his thread here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=84780
Running Firefox from outside Save file [solved]


And it worked well. FF19 even updated to a recent FF19

then I realized that my save file will grow so I moved the .mozilla file
to /mnt/home/ and then made a symlink back to root directory.

Lo and behold now Firefox says it is FF17 again.

so it somehow pick that up from my older install
despite me renaming those to dozilla and nozilla that did not help.

So not sure what to do now. Took me hours to restore all addons
and bookmarks and passwords and now I am back on Square One
or Get Go and nothing changed I only lost the cute Bookmark tool bars I had. all else is the same

So I need some other solution for to get FF19 going.

Maybe that Slacko update to a version with FF19 in it.

[Semme]

Having mimicked your setup- update loads. Did you ice these cookies?

Where's the bulk of your FF install reside?