I'm sorry to say this but the 3.6 beta series of FF is a disaster.
None of the three of them are working properly. It is flooding with chrome errors even if all extensions are disabled.
I'm talking about the upgrade situation from version 3.5.5 and I'm not going to do a fresh install because I don't want to reinstall and reconfigure all of my about 40 extensions.
And furthermore it keeps constantly messing around with extensions.ini. 9 out of 10 times it doesn't recognize the path properly and then I have to set it manually in that file.
I don't see why that file is useful in the first place. Without that file it recognizes all extensions always except that they don't work.
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As this is a beta release, it should *NOT* be used as your everyday browser. It's designed so you can test things out. Only 1/2 of extensions have been updated to support it.
So you should not be using it to upgrade a 3.5.5 install. You can install it alongside to test it out and try some of your favorite extensions and see what work. That's the reason it defaults to FirefoxPortableTest instead of upgrading an existing FirefoxPortable install.
Basically, it's a "beta" for a reason.
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It is to be expected to have problems, since these are not a final release and are meant for bug finding.
And most of the extensions at the moment are not tested for 3.6, so don't expect them to work out of the box.
And having 40 extensions installed is certainly not helping.
I know it is a pain to reinstall the extensions, especially with that amount, but it will give you an insight of which extension cause problem.
I'd suggest to install the beta to another location as suggested by the installer to avoid modifying your normal installation and see what happen when you install your extensions.
It is beta as both previous posts have stated. On the other hand, all my extensions work beautifully, and I haven't had one issue with FF3.6 beta at all. Typically it's due to a configuration issue in your profile when you see these errors.
Thanks for your reactions.
Unfortunately it's too late for me.
There's now something seriously wrong with my installation, because somehow I can't deinstall whatever extension. Firefox says it does so but nothing happens and the extension remains active.
Probably I now have to do a fresh install anyway.
It depends on what you've done. For me, I just copied my profile from my FirefoxPortable install to the 3.6 Beta, installed the add-on compatibility Reporter and all is happy and fine here.
Well, the most annoying problem at the moment for me seems to be that the extensions.ini file has a tendency to disappear for unknown reasons in between sessions on different computers. This renders the extensions in the profile useless.
However I've found a solution on the internet.
It says that you need to delete these files from your profile:
extensions.cache
extensions.ini
extensions.rdf
And if you do so Firefox will recreate them at the next startup.
I've tried this and it works always, even if extensions.ini has disappeared on its own. The only drawback is that startup takes a while longer.
May be John can integrate this as a feature. I know that it is not allowed to physically alter the distribution of Firefox due to licensing reasons, but may it can be integrated as a switch to the Firefoxportable.exe file or otherwise in an ini-file.
I doubt it would be integrated, as your case seems to be an isolated one. I, for one, have never had an issue like this.