The latest installment of Firefox is now available. There are the prerequisite bug fixes of course, but the big deal with 2.0.1 is Windows Vista support. However, there are a few caveats:
- If the browser is installed in a non-default location, software updates may fail. You can reinstall the software to the default location, or to a non-default location as long as the install folder is named “Mozilla Firefox”. Alternatively, you can start Firefox by right-clicking on its icon and selecting “Run as administrator” from the menu.
- When you launch the browser after it has downloaded a software update, you may get a dialog asking to permit “updater.exe” to run. If you do not allow this operation, the software update will fail.
- Firefox can not yet be set as the default browser on Vista. See this bug for more information.
- When installing as a restricted-access user on a shared machine into a location that you can write to, there may still be negative side effects (default browser/other keys not being set correctly). When installing as a restricted access user do not attempt to install over an existing installation in a restricted-access/shared location as this may destroy that installation.
- Firefox may hang when closing after viewing a PDF file in some older versions of the Adobe Acrobat Reader plug in. If you experience this, make sure you are using the newest version of the plug in.
- The Update directory on Windows Vista is located under the user’s directory, in AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Updates\.
- Other known issues with Windows Vista can be found in the Vista tracking bug.
Click here to download Firefox 2.0.1.
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