Preview in Dreamweaver

I have not updated Firefox since 3.someting. I am a web designer and use Preview in browser from Dreamweaver all the time and it has not worked since the last 3.someting version of Firefox. I just upgraded to 5.0 thinking this problem would ben solved, but I can still not get it to work? I work on a Mac Pro in CS3 - is there something I can do to make it work or is this a problem I will have to learn to live with?

Just hade to set preview to work from a tem file
Yes, that's correct.
seems that page changes do not get saved after clicking preview in browser.
What do you mean? After each page change, you would save the page. Then you have to preview again. Is that what you mean? Leaving frames behind would be a good move at this point....

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Hi all,
I'm on a mac and have migrated over to a new computer. Air has decided it won't preview from dreamweaver.
I'm 99% sure this is due to a path issue /usrname vs /newusrname with dreamweaver exten finding the ADL or whatever the exten calls to preivew, but I'm not sure how to change it.
Any ideas?

Problems such as yours are sometimes caused by files that should belong to you but are locked or have wrong permissions. This procedure will check for such files. It makes no changes and therefore will not, in itself, solve your problem.
First, empty the Trash.
Triple-click the line below to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):
find ~ $TMPDIR.. $ -flags +sappnd,schg,uappnd,uchg -o ! -user $UID -o ! -perm -600 -o -acl $ 2> /dev/null | wc -l
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear.
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Photoshop jpegs work everywhere else but won't preview in Dreamweaver

Ok, I have a dreamweaver question, and I’m
hoping you can help me solve the trouble.
I am creating some images using photoshop. Building a site
locally and trying to see the images in dreamweaver.
They are standard RGB images, jpgs. When I pull them directly
into browsers, they all work great. For some crazy reason I
can’t get them to preview in dreamweaver. They show up as
broken links.
I have covered a few trouble shooting basics here, and still
haven’t figured it out.
1) the images are definitely RGB, and work in normal web
browsers, just not in dreamweaver.
2) In fact, when I preview the html in a browser via
dreamweaver the links seem to work. They are only broken in
dreamweaver itself.
3) I have pulled random jpegs off of the web, dropped them
into that same folder linked them up the same way and they work
fine. Only the jpegs I'm creating in photoshop seem to be causing
the trouble.
4) I have tried various options in the site management dialog
box including making links relative to the document or the site
root. Nothing changes.
5) I have exported the jpegs a number of different ways from
photoshop, via the normal “save” and also “save
for web”
6) When I save the jpegs as a gif instead, they work fine.
7) I have reset the root site several times, and rebooted
several times. No dice.

Post a link to one, please.
Which DW? Which OS?
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Ok, I have a dreamweaver question, and I?m hoping you
can help
> me
> solve the trouble.
>
> I am creating some images using photoshop. Building a
site locally and
> trying
> to see the images in dreamweaver.
>
> They are standard RGB images, jpgs. When I pull them
directly into
> browsers,
> they all work great. For some crazy reason I can?t get
them to preview in
> dreamweaver. They show up as broken links.
>
> I have covered a few trouble shooting basics here, and
still haven?t
> figured
> it out.
>
> 1) the images are definitely RGB, and work in normal web
browsers, just
> not in
> dreamweaver.
> 2) In fact, when I preview the html in a browser via
dreamweaver the links
> seem to work. They are only broken in dreamweaver
itself.
> 3) I have pulled random jpegs off of the web, dropped
them into that same
> folder linked them up the same way and they work fine.
Only the jpegs I'm
> creating in photoshop seem to be causing the trouble.
> 4) I have tried various options in the site management
dialog box
> including
> making links relative to the document or the site root.
Nothing changes.
> 5) I have exported the jpegs a number of different ways
from photoshop,
> via
> the normal ?save? and also ?save for web?
> 6) When I save the jpegs as a gif instead, they work
fine.
> 7) I have reset the root site several times, and
rebooted several times.
> No
> dice.
>

Just Upgraded to Firefox 8.0.1 and now cannot use Firefox preview in Dreamweaver CS5.5...any one else have this issue? I have seen this before in previous version of Firefox but got fixed.

Not able to use firefox browser preview in Dreamweaver CS5.5 after upgrade to version 8.0.1. Now can preview only in Safari.

Don't know if there is an option make the download window stay up, but you can bring it back with Ctrl+J then right-click on the download to open the folder it was downloaded to.
* keyboard shortcuts -- http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/keyboard.htm
Where files get downloaded to is in your '''about:config''' settings.
* [http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config About:config - MozillaZine Knowledge Base]
* [http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries About:config entries - MozillaZine Knowledge Base]
check out variables beginning browser.download.

Preview mode Dreamweaver CS3/CS4 not compatible with Firefox 3.6.8

I found a post about this issue, which was marked 'solved', but it isn't! To use Firebug, I had to upgrade Firefox and since I did, I can't use the 'preview' function in Dreamweaver (It works only once, when Firefox is closed, but I don't like to close and re-open Firefox every time I want to preview a page). Downgrading is not an option, as I can't use Firebug and I really not think Adobe has to solve a problem caused by Firebox, as suggested in the previous post.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened

There is a fix available for Dreamweaver, so it works in Firefox 3.6+ versions:
http://solutions.marketingmedley.com/
There is a $5.00 fee for that Dreamweaver fix. That website and the fix are not associated with Mozilla in any manner. Support for that fix is provided by that that website via email.

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Im sure this question has been answeredmany times but i cant seem to find any solutions. Here it is:
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