581791 - When automatic update installs, tab candy "disappears"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Graveyard :: Panorama, defect)

Description

[Frank]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b3pre) Gecko/20100724 Minefield/4.0b3pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b3pre) Gecko/20100724 Minefield/4.0b3pre

I installed FireFox b4pre3 and I was able to use tab candy.  Later, when I installed FireFox automatic updates, tab candy is no longer available.  OPT-SPACE does not invoke it and there does not appear to be any other way to do so.  When I reinstalled: firefox-4.0b3pre.en-US.mac64.dmg that I originally down loaded, tab candy is available.  So something in the automatic update "disables" it.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

The auto-update installs the normal nightly build which doesn't have tab candy.
tab candy is only a try-server build AFAIK

Comment 2

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

You'll need to redownload:

http://azarask.in/projects/tabcandy/build.php

Comment 3

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

We might be able to provide builds from our maple project branch that may update to a newer build with bug 534954. But the maple branch doesn't produce nightlies anyway.. ?

Comment 4

[Frank]

Okay, I think what happened is that I downloaded the Tab Candy build and then I later accepted an automatic update that stomped the Tab Candy buid .  I have downloaded from tryserver again and all is well.  

On a side note, I think if you get Tab Candy dialed in right, it's going to be a significant step forward in terms of quality UI design.  It's an excellent concept!

Comment 7

[rick70433a]

Question - How do we get the 'latest and greatest' version as you continue to develop Tab Candy?  Is there a place I can register to get notified when an updated Tab Candy build is available?

Comment 10

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

I've posted a discussion about the 'try updating to minefield' issue at http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/browse_thread/thread/e2e4590914bd9a3c#

My guess is that we will stop doing that, but I don't have any good options for updating Tab Candy builds. We're just not tooled up for that.

Comment 11

[Frank]

Not a problem.  I turned off automatic checking for updates in prefs.  Actually, I now think it's really better that way.

Comment 13

[Rev BLK]

Just wanted to note that I have duplicated this bug as well. I have reinstalled the prerelease available here:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tryserver-builds/[e-mail]-2e4c476a50d0/
and have turned off automatic updates so as to curb this problem in the future.

Comment 14

[Aaron]

When will be tab candy available in the official beta? Are there any plans for now?

Comment 16

[Anthony R. Thompson]

I'm still having this isssue; used to have Tabcandy, upgraded to the latest Minefield, and Tabcandy disappeared - now all my tabs are in one gigantic window :(  There is no menu option at View -> Tab View, no icon on the right end of the tab bar, and Ctrl-E does nothing :(

Comment 17

[Anthony R. Thompson]

Forgot to add, my build is:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b4pre) Gecko/20100810 Minefield/4.0b4pre

I got Minefield off the "Download now" link on Aza's TC page at http://www.azarask.in/projects/tabcandy/ and it's dated 10-Aug-2010 05:31 (tryserver-win32)

Comment 18

[Aza Raskin [:aza]]

We are looking at Tab Candy being in Firefox Beta 4. No promises, however. That should also solve your problem, Anthony.

Comment 19

[(no longer active)]

Mass moving all Tab Candy bugs from Mozilla Labs to Firefox::Tab Candy.  Filter the bugmail spam with "tabcandymassmove".

Comment 20

[Anthony R. Thompson]

Aza, I upgraded to FF beta 4 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b3) Gecko/20100805 Firefox/4.0b3) and still don't see TabCandy.

Do I need to go back to using one of the Minefield builds?  If so, which one?

There used to be a win32 build off the Download Now link at http://www.azarask.in/projects/tabcandy/ but now it appears to be gone - there's just win32-debug.  I don't know what Maemo4 is - is that what I should use to see TabCandy again? (thanks)

Comment 21

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

TabCandy is integrated with Firefox trunk, so when you get an update to a nightly build, it'll have tabcandy.

Comment 22

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

You'll probably want this win32 installer:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-4.0b4pre.en-US.win32.installer.exe