Stupid Firefox
So I booted up my computer today, tried to launch Firefox and was greeted by the Update window. Without thinking twice, I hit update and even skipped past the part where they told me some of my plugins would no longer work. I never really bothered to check that list because most of the plugins I have are disabled and the ones I actually use are the ones that are always updated because they’re used by everyone.
Unfortunately, I had completely forgotten about one of the plugins I use everyday called keyconfig. What it basically allows you to do is quickly change the keyboard shortcuts used within Firefox. There’s been a long standing bug with Firefox on the Mac whereby it doesn’t allow you to change any keyboard shortcuts from withihe System Preferences as every other program does.
For some strange reason, the moment I restarted Firefox with 3.0.7 installed, my keyboard shortcuts were acting weird, and it suddenly hit me that keyconfig no longer worked, which I found really strange. Why would a plugin not work after a simple 0.0.1 update? Turns out there was more to that tiny update than a usual minor update. So here’s a warning to anyone:
DO NOT UPDATE FIREFOX TO 3.0.7 IF YOU’RE ON A MAC AND USE THE PLUGIN “KEYCONFIG” AS IT WILL NOT WORK AFTERWARDS.
For those of you thinking “it’s no big deal”, ask around and you’ll find out how crucial keyboard shortcuts are to some of us. It really speeds things up even for the simplest tasks.
All in all, I have no idea why Firefox 3.0.7 causes this to happen on Macs, but Mozilla really has to fix this soon 