My problem is gone and hopefully yours will be too ?. My device rebooted, it looked like reboot after firmware update (with child reading under tree and progress bar, it took something about 30s+-), then Kindle started with clean list of books but don’t worry, it will load them all in few seconds ? just wait and you will see, but the orientation was gone and maybe some other small settings that I just didn’t realized yet. Thank you Jen, didn’t knew that there is this submenu. Kindle went through a complete restart, loaded up, problem solved. Went into menu from the home screen, clicked settings, menu again, clicked restart.
I had the same problem but I already had the latest software so couldn’t update. I also checked the firmware version, I have the latest… Then I found this post : The article was gone from queue (no pending articles), it looked like problem of my device. ? I also investigated on Amazon’s My Kindle page, nothing. But the article was gone from our local news page, or it changed name but I wasn’t able to find it. Hmm, now what? I found one forum with someone with same problem, the advice was to resend same thing. crdownload file remains as a partial file with the word. Should the download fail for any reason, including pausing it, the. I often read articles from our local web magazines or development articles with help of this tool : Kindle It, really good Firefox plugin.Ī week ago I accidentally downloaded (well it looks like that) the same article 2 times, or maybe this isn’t the case here, but anyway one article was stuck in a way that is was still in the queue for download, with 100% completed, but it was still there in View Downloading Items menu. When downloading files with any Chromium-based browser (Google Chrome, Brave, Microsoft Edge, Opera, Vivaldi), including videos, documents, apps, music, and more, the file appears in the folder you downloaded it to. If this does not work for you, download the latest Firefox exe file from Mozilla website and update it manually. When User Account Control asks for permission, hit Continue.
Since I have version without 3G, I am downloading everything via WiFi at home. To do so, hit Windows Start Menu, type firefox in the search box, and when Firefox appears, right click > Run as administrator. If you’re interested in the more complicated hack, let me know by comments and I’ll add it here.I am happy owner of older Kindle Keyboard (without 3G, it should be 3rd generation of Kindle readers).
There is also another hack to force an upgrade, that involves removing a few update-related files from various folders in the Firefox install directory, but it would be easier to just use one of the two above methods, so I am not listing it here.
To do so, hit Windows Start Menu, type firefox in the search box, and when Firefox appears, right click > “Run as administrator”. To ensure Firefox is completely killed, open Task Manager and look for any firefox.exe processes and kill them (there shouldn’t be any left if you closed all Firefox windows anyway). Fixing Firefox update bugįollow these steps to get Firefox to update to a newer version that you downloaded already via “Check for Updates”: quit it completely) and restart it for the upgrade. The error message tells you to ensure that Firefox is not running on your system (ie. Every time I restarted Firefox, I would get the above mentioned error stating that software update has failed. However, restarting Firefox did not update it to the newer version. When a major Firefox version was released, I hit About > Check for Updates and let the download finish. Windows Vista users seem to have encountered the same Firefox update bug too. Please make sure there are no other copies of Firefox running on your computer, and then restart Firefox to try again” error. For the last two major versions of Mozilla Firefox on Windows 7, I have been getting a “Software Update Failed.