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I'm just happy I could help. Enjoy your bird! :-D – Lenny, on June 22, 2009 10:07

Have you had a chance to try it out? If you have, how did it go?

did you try to just drop it in the playlist? – Lenny, on June 21, 2009 14:46

After you've installed the songbird dev tools, go to [tools] in the Songbird menu and select [enable profile manager].
Then restart Songbird and you should be prompted to create additional profiles once it loads again.

yes, then drag and drop the .xpi file onto songbird – Lenny, on June 21, 2009 14:16

If you feel uncomfortable with commands, you can install the developer tools in you songbird and select "enable profile manager" under "tools" in the menu and restart your Bird :-D – Lenny, on June 21, 2009 14:06

I'd recommend to create a new profile and see if that helps. – Lenny, on June 21, 2009 14:01

Yeah, I recon that might be the problem, no idea why though? – Lenny, on June 21, 2009 12:33

I myself have no problem running 1.2.0 on XP.
In your case guess it wouldn't hurt to try and download a nightly, even though i suspect it is a little too soon to hope for it to work.

The second thing you could try would be to nuke your current Songbird profile completely, alternatively create a second one. This will only have a chance of success if you used the same profile over the previous versions of Songbird though.

Whatever your decision, I'm here to help you out.

G'day,
I have a few comments about this.

Firstly, Songbird is based on the Firefox gecko engine which does not achieve 100/100 yet. When firefox achieves it, the code can be migrated to songbird and we will achieve it..

However, there is a few important things you should know about the ACID testing:
1) A lot of the ACID testing is about handling dodgy code. They are designed with MANY intentional and serious errors which are put in to simply ensure that browsers can handle errors well. That's ok, but developers shouldn't be intentionally putting such errors in their code anyway. So some major aspects of testing are nice, but doesn't say much about the browser

2) ACID1 and ACID2 were based on finalised web standards and so were genuinely useful, ACID3 is actually testing many DRAFT standards. These are standards which developers should not be using at all yet because they aren't finalised. In the past, everyone was rushing to support draft standards, and the end result was a dozen browsers which interpreted things in a different way. It caused massive compatibility problems in some cases. The worst part is that future versions of the browsers then often needed to keep the code to handle the dodgy standard to maintain compatibility

3) Furthermore, by promoting draft standards, it makes it more difficult for the standards to be revised and improved, because users will complain that the standard has changed and their precious browser doesn't pass.

4) One of the tests CANNOT be reliably passed. Its a performance test. Put any well multithreaded browser on a computer with a high clock rate, it will pass it. But put even safari on a 486, it fails. To me, it doesn't make sense to be proudly parading around a test that is dependant on hardware.

5) Finally, it barely tests anything. Believe me, it really is an incredibly small subset of tests. Its more important to chase bugs causing issues in finalised standards, then chase draft standards that can change overnight, and shouldn't be used yet anyway.

And yes, there are plenty of bugs in browsers handling finalised standards still! So if someone works on ACID3 support for Firefox, be aware it will mainly be to quieten Apple. But the tests at this time are useless, and there are so many more important things that should be fixed.

Whilst completion of projects like Mozilla Jetpack (which allows extensions to be added and removed without restarting) could benefit everyone (especially songbird), the reality is that any web developer who is using CSS3 and such already (which is probably tested in ACID3) on production sites, should be ashamed of themselves

Just my opinion.. I'm not an employee of POTI either, so not sure its shared by them. But just be aware that ACID3 is a gimmicky test that has been blown out of proportion by the web crowd somewhat. ACID2 was useful, but ACID3's usefulness is highly questionable.

Regards,
Andrew

Anyone with this problem who have tried to completely nuke their Songbird profile?

Hi there Naegling,

Have you used previous versions of songbird before? If yes, is this a problem that appeared with version 1.2.0 ?

Head over to this topic regarding the same issue.

Haha, xD – Lenny, on June 20, 2009 11:57

You can use F11 to go into a fullscreen mode.

I once had a similar experience: I figured out that it was a Flash-Video, that was running in the MashTape-Addon in the background.

I remember, that this was a very spooky experience, so I bet it's something like that in your case, too :-D

Check all your add-ons and your open Website-Tabs, and see if they play some kind of embedded media. Or disable all add-ons, that gather info from the web, and close all Tabs for testing, because it's possible that you don't even see the embedded media.