Firefox3Beta

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If you're testing Foxmarks on Firefox 3 Beta, here are some things you should know.

• The current version is 2.0.46.10. If you have a problem and you're running an earlier version, please be sure to upgrade before proceeding; we may have already repaired the problem you're having. (Upgrades are available here.)
• If Firefox crashes during your use of Foxmarks, please allow Firefox to submit a crash to report to Mozilla.
• If you encounter a problem that isn't addressed below, please email us and let us know.

Known Bugs and Limitations

• Seeing installation errors? Make sure you have either enabled 3rd party cookies, or created an exception for foxmarks.com. See the detailed instructions.
• The "Unfiled Bookmarks" folder is sometimes duplicated.
• If you sync Firefox 3 data with Firefox 2 using a version of Foxmarks prior to 2.0.44.1, Foxmarks generates a sync error. Solution: upgrade to Foxmarks 2.0.44.x (Firefox 2 or Firefox 3) or 2.0.45 (Firefox 2)
• Foxmarks doesn't yet sync tag descriptions.

Fixed Bugs

• If you set tags using Firefox 3, you can't yet view them in My Foxmarks. [Fixed!]
• If you try to sync a bookmark that contains a url that Firefox doesn't think is a url, Foxmarks generates a Synchronization Error [Fixed in 2.0.44.4]
• Foxmarks crashes if it receives an invalid (unparseable) icon string [Fixed in 2.0.44.6]
• The Foxmarks menu appears in the wrong place in Firefox 3 Beta 4 [Fixed in 2.0.44.6]
• Merge sometimes produces spurious separators [Fixed in 2.0.44.6]
• Merge sometimes produces duplicate Livemarks [Fixed in 2.0.44.6]
• Firefox displays a download size of 4 GB when downloading the Foxmarks extension. (This is believed to be a Firefox bug; the Foxmarks extension is actually about 240k.) [Fixed! This was a Firefox bug but we've worked around it.]
• Foxmarks crashes when creating a bookmark with an invalid url. [Fixed in 2.0.44.7]
• Foxmarks crashes when changing a bookmark to have an invalid url [Fixed in 2.0.44.8]
• Occasionally synchronization takes an abnormally long time, during which there is lots of disk activity. The next sync is really fast. [Fixed in 2.0.44.10.]
• Initial synchronization is sometimes excruciatingly slow [Fixed in 2.0.44.13]
• Some bookmarks are duplicated in initial merge [Fixed in 2.0.44.13]
• Foxmarks crashes during merge of bookmarks with no name [Introduced in 2.0.44.13, fixed in 2.0.44.14]
• Foxmarks sometimes hangs during initial merge [Fixed in 2.0.44.15]
• The Foxmarks settings dialog on initial display is slightly clipped at the bottom on MacOSX. [Fixed in 2.0.44.16]
• On Linux platforms, the text below the pane selectors in the Settings Dialog is not visible. [Fixed in 2.0.44.16]
• The Settings dialog is not wide enough in some locales (e.g., zh-CN, ru-RU) [Fixed in 2.0.44.16]
• Microsummary name change sometimes generate conflicts [Fixed in 2.0.44.16]
• Downloads fail for users who use Foxmarks with their own servers [Fixed in 2.0.44.18]
• A work-around for the Firefox 3 crasher bug [Fixed in 2.0.44.19]
• A work-around for a Firefox 3 display bug [Fixed in 2.0.44.20]
• On initial sync (or regular sync of large change sets), Firefox sometimes crashes. [A work-around was deployed in 2.0.44.20. The bug was fixed in Firefox 3 RC2.]
• Tag folders dragged into the bookmark hierarchy don't sync properly [Fixed in 2.0.47.1]
• Foxmarks menu is black on black background within Places view on Vista [Fixed in 2.0.47.1]

Other things you should know

• Firefox 3 supports more data types and special features than does Firefox 2. In dealing with this situation, Foxmarks follows the general precept of "do no harm" -- while special features from Firefox 3 won't work in Firefox 2, Foxmarks makes every attempt to preserve data. Thus you will see that Smart Folders generated in Firefox 3 turn up as ordinary bookmarks with funny url's in Firefox 2. Tags don't appear at all in Firefox 2. Syncing with Firefox 3 will produce a folder called "Unfiled Root" in Firefox 2 containing your unfiled (Firefox 3) bookmarks. Etc.
• When you install Foxmarks for Firefox 3, the Setup Wizard will run even if you have already configured Foxmarks to run on this computer in this profile with Firefox 2. Foxmarks considers Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 to be independent installations even within the same profile; this allows you to switch back and forth between the two versions of the browser and use Foxmarks to sync changes between them.