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Anyone figured out Firefox 3?

#1

With each new version of EagleFiler, I install Firefox 3 and try it again. I understand the problem lies with Firefox, but I still hope. With EF 1.4, I tried a bare installation of FF3 with no extensions - no go. Even worse, after I removed FF3, FF2 failed to import too, until I wiped all vestiges of FF off my system and reinstalled FF2.

Of course, on a Mac I do NOT use as my main machine, FF3 works fine with EF.

So… Has anyone figured out a pattern to the installations of FF3 that work and the ones that don’t? Has anyone had a “bad” installation go “good”?

#2

I haven’t, except that I’ve never seen it not work on a clean Mac OS X installation with a bare installation of Firefox. My hope is that the new bookmarklets will make Firefox 3 a bit more pleasant to use with EagleFiler if you happen to have one of the “bad” installations.

#3

<sigh> Maybe I’ll have to with until OS X 10.6. I cannot imagine going through a clean Leopard (re)install and upgrade. The bookmarklets are great, but they do not do the option-F1 trick to let me tag and comment on the fly.

#4

Forced to FF 3
Firefox just forced me to upgrade to v3, so I may have to try to figure this out. I really really really miss the ability to tag imports as I grab them.

#5

I recently read that the Firefox problem may be related to Default Folder X.

#6

Yes! - Default Folder X is the culprit
If I uninstall Default Folder X and restart, the capture key works! Turning DFX off is not enough - a restart is necessary. This is with the very latest build (4.1.1d6) on the St Clair Software web site. I have sent a note to St Clair.

#7

More information here. It’s possible for the Firefox bug to manifest itself with the new Default Folder X, and even without Default Folder X, but updating to Default Folder X 4.1.1 should solve the problem for most people.

#8

It works!
I am not sure upgrading to Default Folder X 4.1.1 is necessary, because that alone was not enough in my case. But adding Firefox Default Folder X’s exception list, as mentioned in the hint, did the trick. Finally!