Firefox Upgrade 3.5

On Sunday, I visited Mozillazine, after a very long time, and I was surprised to know that Firefox 3.5 has been released. While Ididn’t notice any change in my firefox. Looking at the features of Firefox 3.5, I checked my version of Firefox, its 3.0.5. Oh My God! Auto Upgrade Option has to be off, I thought. I went to Tools->Options->Advanced->Update to check the Auto Update option, to my surprise, it’s already on.

I was clueless on what went wrong. I tried running the help->upgrade option for the third time. Its all failure, the funnier part of the error is that the upgrade runs fine, and on completion on upgrade, it prompts for restarting Firefox as if the update is completed successfully, but after restarting Firefox, the browser starts again on 3.0.5.

Moreover, Firefox supports auto upgrade only in linear fashion, i.e., it progress from 3.0.5 to 3.0.11 to 3.5, so i have to reach 3.0.11, before go to 3.5.

As I have no solution for this mysterious error, I assumed that some extension might have corrupted the Firefox. So, as per my precognition, I went on to the next step of uninstalling firefox 3.0.5 and installed the freshly downloaded Firefox 3.5.

Before I could celebrate the success in the Firefox 3.5, installation of extensions keeps failing. On analysis with the help of Google, I find that there were registry entries one of Extension “PC2Synchronisation” has been corrupt in my Firefox which causes the Firefox to fail in all extension upgrade.  So I manually deleted this extension in Windows Registry (Regedit32)

Voila! My Celebration has begin with Firefox 3.5. Now, its Fast-Forward on to Internet.

Well! thats a day debugging on the Firefox 3.5 Upgrade