FireFix

Name: FireFix
Rating: 4.4375 (5 reviews)

1.9

20 April 2006

Automagically updates Firefox to latest nightly build.

Overview

FireFix automatically updates Firefox to the latest nightly version. No user intervention is required, everything is fully automated.

Downloads Firefox nightly build from Web server
Mounts the disk image
Creates a backup of the previous version on disk
Copies the new nightly build to its default location
Option to launch the new version of Firefox
Option to undo latest install and revert to last version
Option to show the change log for past week
Preserves the user's search plugin settings
Makes backups of bookmarks and cookie files
Optionally installs Philippe Wittenbergh's OS X widgets

What's new in FireFix

Version 1.9:

Updated for new Minefield builds
Re-enabled disk image mounting on OS X 10.3.9 (untested)

33 FireFix Reviews

See all

I wonder why do people want to whine so much about something that is still under the ongoing developement. If it is good, they have to find something that they don't like, so they can whine about it. And of course, if it's bad, they will bitch all day. Don't forget, every developer puts up the warning as: "Use at your own risk". So you download the software, you use it, then bitch at yourself if it's not your liking. Get a life..........all those whiners out there.

Version 1.8

v.1.6. I´m using MacOSX 1.4.2. Just installed it and I tought it would not work at all, there was no "Choose your browser" dialog box. Then I started Exposee and realized that the dialog box was open, but not in the viewable rate of my monitor. It appeared by default somewhere at the bottom left of my monitor, in an unreachable region. I changed my monitor resolution to 1280*1024 but I´m still not able to click on it. Seems like a bug! Any workarounds or suggestions?

Version 1.6

1 answer(s)

Anonymous

06 November 2005

Delete the FireFix.plist file in your Preferences folder. That will center the window on screen and you will be asked to locate Firefox.

Version 1.6

Change the nightly build location under the preferences tab to: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-1.6a1.en-US.mac.dmg Working as of Oct 9, 2005 (10/9/2005, Version: 1.5)

Version 1.5

1 answer(s)

Paul Courtade

11 October 2005

Tried suggested update location change but FireFix gives and error finding update image disk. (10/10/05 10:16 PM)

Version 1.5

I've had no trouble with 1.4 until it stopped retrieving nightlies on 8/16. Saw no 1.0+ nightlies past 8/16 at Mozilla. They now seem to say 1.6a1 at: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ I'm wondering if that might be a little too bleeding edge, or if that's just where things are now. (G4 under 10.4.2)

Version 1.4

1 answer(s)

Anonymous

09 October 2005

Change the nightly build location under the preferences tab to: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-1.6a1.en-US.mac.dmg Working as of Oct 9, 2005

Version 1.5

FireFix v1.4 does absolutely nothing when I run it. There's no "Choose Your Browser..." dialog box, the prefs don't appear, and when I (attempt to) quit my system error beep sounds with nary a message to be seen. I'm running 10.4.1. ???

Version 1.4

1 answer(s)

Freese1

06 November 2005

Version 1.6

Using the 1.4 version, my Firefox does not get updated. The application downloads everything, mounts the deerpark image, but when Firefox starts, it is still version 1.0.4.

Version 1.4

I think that Deer Park may be causing some problems with FireFix - didn't seem to update properly today, and just left me with a mounted disk image. Hopefully this can be fixed before too long!

Version 1.3

At first, I could not believe the problems some people reported about errors. But I have now found out that the tar.gz files downloaded from .Mac are in fact corrupt. The sympton of this corruption is that there is a stray Readme file and the app generates the ominous 1708 error. I could not reproduce that, because the .tar.gz file I put on my local iDisk is just fine, only the version transferred to .Mac is broken (and it affects only files in the Public folder). This is a nightmare. Anyway, I just archived the files to .zip and changed the link on MU.

Version 1.3

FireFix

Overview

What's new in FireFix

FireFix Screenshots

33 FireFix Reviews