Password Manager compatibility issue with FireFox 5

[JameZ]

@All,

Patch is on test cycle right now till end of this week if no bugs are found, the patch should be up by next week.

//JameZ

[VW_Lupo_TD]

thank you JameZ !!!

you guys rule - this forum is the main reason why i have been on my fourth or fifth thinkpad....

[ettubrute]

Thanks JameZ!

Will you please post a link here?  Thanks in advance!

[JameZ]

Definitely post the link here as I myself need the patch for my FF5 to. I had to re-roll my FF5 to FF 4.0.1 as I don't like the "Java" error everytime I use FF.

//JameZ

[mjdl]

I ran into this problem and solved it by 1) uninstalling Firefox 5, 2) reinstalling Firefox 4.0.1 and making sure that auto-updating for Firefox itself was de-selected in the Firefox "Advanced" tab in the "Options" dialog. So I'll remain at Firefox 4.0.1 for as long as I can--no great problem, since Firefox 5 brings very little new.

Mozilla is really shooting itself in the foot with its accellerated Firefox browser update tempo by not having first settled on stable standardized interfaces to the various components of the browser toolkit which don't go missing in browser updates (which is what the error message of this thread's OP is about), so that addon developers can rely on their presence and stability for browser extensions (both Javascript and binary) over several versions of the browser. Not very clueful software development practices by Mozilla, and I don't see how Lenovo could really keep up-to-date in the circumstances.

[VW_Lupo_TD]

how are we looking on this ?

any chance it will be up by the weekend ?

or is further testing / debugging required ?

[PiotrR]

Lenovo needs to do something about it.
I do not believe that so much time it takes to update patch for FF5.
This is generally the idea of ​​software for business people and can not be this hole in the support.
What I have now for 3 weeks to do as I have 100 passwords?
Shift on the LAST PASS? Then cancel the Access Connections and right when you buy a new laptop will not be an argument on the plus to choose Lenovo mashine.
Hire one more employee for 4000 Euro / month, and we are be happy a we pay at 1 euro per person. Perhaps even earn.
Is this problem now will appear every time?
Support was promised after the weekend, I'm already on 6.00 work and play with passwords and authorization.

I greet.

Dissatisfied Thinkpad user.
In the time IBM had no such problems.

[mjdl]

As a Lenovo ThinkPad user, your frustration is justified. I really like the fingerprint-authentication of browser passwords too, and the ThinkPad is, after all, supposed to be a premium product

But as I wrote in my posting earlier in this thread, Mozilla Firefox is software over which Lenovo has no control: Mozilla changed or eliminated a software interface in Firefox 5.0 on which the Password extension depends, without much thought about maintaining compatibility with existing Firefox extensions that use this interface.

There are millions of users of Firefox and thousands of extensions in use. Mozilla Firefox has to "get a clue" and give external extension developers good documentation and some assurance about which interfaces they can use and depend on, and for how long a particular interface version will remain usable--this is particulary true for extensions with binary components. Otherwise the new accelerated Firefox development schedule just creates chaos for external developers, as we see here.

[chang_iro]

I agree that Mozilla needs to take responsibility for this. While the FF5 upgrade has good (and maybe necessary) intention, Mozilla takes a path not very kind to the users. It shows very little concern about backward compatibility to many software. When it upgrade to FF5, I lost not only password manager but also Skype extention and Adobe Acrobat extention.

[PiotrR]

In total, it is not of interest to me and Mozzila FF5 problems.
And I do not want to talk about technical issues and the whole story of Adam and Eve.
I am interested in Lenovo's only response, which I am a customer and no one will persuade me not so much that it must continue even if the FF had to change every month.
Sixteen days no longer support, and probably knew about Lenovo's new version much earlier.