Firefox 40 Released

[Puffnstuff]

Well 40 hasn't crashed on me yet (fingers crossed).

 

[Sandro_16]

I've been having this bug since 39 on Windows 7 and 10.

Sometimes the sound of notifications/chat messages wont dont work but if I the page isnt refreshed it all goes back to normal, both chat/sounds and the text on the chat window.

Here is an example



Any help would be appreciated

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Thought maybe you got it from EFF site as i didn't see it on Mozilla's extension site.



My problem with Wikipedia is fixed. It was ImgLikeOpera not playing well with that site.

Well I was wrong about the 64-bit beta install and still had a shortcut pointing to the 32-bit .exe. That's why my warning went away. Updating to 41 did disable it outright, but here's how to get any unsigned extensions back:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Addons/Extension_Signing
Looks like then a hard lock from 42 on.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Hmm so if there is a hard lock, then HTTPS everywhere won't work since it's not on the mozilla addons page. I really hope EFF is working on getting it on there!

 

[nemesismk2]

my version of firefox just updated to firefox 40 and no crashes yet and i have activated hardware acceleration.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Hmm so if there is a hard lock, then HTTPS everywhere won't work since it's not on the mozilla addons page. I really hope EFF is working on getting it on there!

It's still unsigned for whatever reason, but it's on there (and I'm pretty sure has been):
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/https-everywhere/

 

[MontyAC]

Looks like an update on version 40 is up on FileHippo but not via auto update on FF:

http://filehippo.com/download_firefox/

 

[Ketchup]

Looks like an update on version 40 is up on FileHippo but not via auto update on FF:

http://filehippo.com/download_firefox/

http://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-4001

 

[MontyAC]

The new update is now 40.0.2.

 

[Dahak]

Noticed that too, here are the release notes
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/40.0.2/releasenotes/

Enabled API allowing Windows 10 users to open settings dialog (1193196)
Fixed

mozalloc.lib was missing from the xulrunner package (1168291)
Fixed

Fix a startup crash with some combination of hardware and drivers (1160295)

 

[pcslookout]

Hmm so if there is a hard lock, then HTTPS everywhere won't work since it's not on the mozilla addons page. I really hope EFF is working on getting it on there!

Yep.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Thanks for the update.

 

[WebDesigners]

Updated yesterday.
No bugs yet, so far so good!

 

[Engineer]

Well, thought all was well until I started getting severe lag on pages loading. Newegg pages take 30 seconds or more to load at times. The same page on IE open in a second or two. The indicator just spins and spins within FF.

Might need to reset to a fresh setup and try from there. I'll try FF in safe mode to make sure...

Edit: Restarted FF in Safe Mode and it was fast and responsive. Restarted in regular mode and it was fast and responsive. Maybe something is building up over time. Will have to monitor it and when it occurs again, maybe I can disable add-on's without restarting FF to see if I can track it down.

 

[Ketchup]

Remember that 10 is very good at updating things in the background, such as One Drive, Windows Updates, and anything else that might be needed for your account (if you logged in that way). Glad you hear things are getting better.

 

[mikeymikec]

Please could a few people here fire up Process Explorer and monitor GPU usage while scrolling in Firefox (with hardware acceleration enabled of course). My 750ti seems to be routinely hitting about 30% every time I do it even for very simple page layouts. I'm not sure what older versions of FF were like in this respect, but some changes have been made to v40 in that department. Seamonkey seems pretty similar though (which AFAIK hasn't been updated recently).

 

[nemesismk2]

40.0.2 has just crashed on me so disabled hardware acceleration.

 

[Ketchup]

40.0.2 has just crashed on me so disabled hardware acceleration.

Are you still running XP? I wonder if it is due to having an older video driver. That or an add-on.

I have about 6 machines running Firefox in the house (virtual and not-virtual) and haven't had a crash since a really buggy version of Flash a couple years ago.

 

[nemesismk2]

Are you still running XP? I wonder if it is due to having an older video driver. That or an add-on.

I have about 6 machines running Firefox in the house (virtual and not-virtual) and haven't had a crash since a really buggy version of Flash a couple years ago.

yes i am still using windows xp and all drivers have been updated so using 14.4 for my video card.

 

[Steltek]

Well I was wrong about the 64-bit beta install and still had a shortcut pointing to the 32-bit .exe. That's why my warning went away. Updating to 41 did disable it outright, but here's how to get any unsigned extensions back:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Addons/Extension_Signing
Looks like then a hard lock from 42 on.

The hard lock for unsigned extensions that can't be overridden went into place on a Nightly alpha update last night (The Nightly alphas are currently at 43).

Up to now, I had been running Nightly with few problems; however, I backed down to the most recent ESR release (38.8) so my extensions will still work. Looks like I will be running this ESR version for a long while.

 

[nemesismk2]

yes i am still using windows xp and all drivers have been updated so using 14.4 for my video card.

firefox only crashes when i am online. the problem is that i can use google chrome or even microsoft internet explorer v8 and there are no crashes. this makes me believe that firefox has the problem. i think i will have to just use google chrome in instead of firefox.

 

[Puffnstuff]

I'm happy to report that firefix 40 has not crashed on me one time where the previous versions would have done so multiple times.

 

[nemesismk2]

I'm happy to report that firefix 40 has not crashed on me one time where the previous versions would have done so multiple times.

thats good but i will use something else like chrome or opera until i test that firefox works better for windows xp and doesn't crash

 

[Iron Woode]

firefox isn't crashing for me but now wikipedia is giving me - sec_error_ocsp_invalid_signing_cert.

lovely.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

I just checked and i'm getting it too! WTF!?
Is it related to the fact they're using a wild card certificate?

firefox isn't crashing for me but now wikipedia is giving me -
sec_error_ocsp_invalid_signing_cert.

lovely.