My reading about Tab Candy is that it is: -highly experimental -in very early stages of development -may or may not become a part of Firefox in the future -is not/will not be an extension but, if adopted, will be "part of Firefox" itself -is available in only ONE SPECIAL pre-beta version of Firefox

Maybe you need to turn off automatic updates for nightlies and check the one download link to see when a new build is available. In fact, there is a "bug report" proposal to build an update channel for it mentioned here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574803

I have the same problem, had Tab Candy yesterday, don't have it today. Didn't notice any updates while using Firefox.

OP here, I wanted to add that I was running from the extracted zip file in the FTP site. Would that make any difference?

I have since used the Minefield installer from the FTP site and am running that..will report back if the problem persists.

TabCandy is only avaliable on try-server builds, which gets overwritten by nightly builds the next day. If you wish to keep using the TabCandy build change app.update.channel in about:config to something invalid, so updates don't get fetched.

Updated to 4.0b3pre and Tab Candy disappeared.

Unfortunately, the Tab Candy build of Firefox points to the wrong URL for updates. Thus it installs a vanilla build of Minefield instead of a Tab Candy build of Firefox. You'll need to refrain from updating (or manually getting another Tab Candy build, which we manually updated). Sorry for the inconvenience. When we land in the nightly builds, this won't be a problem anymore.

-- Aza

I just ran into this today for the first time. I'm running the latest greatest Snow Leopard on my late 2009 13" Macbook Pro. I developed this great big sweet tooth for tab candy and now it's gone!  :( I'm dropping from my sugar rush - how do I get those sweet tabs back?

I am right behind Jennifer. I've been dinner on tabcandy bliss all day, and logged on today to find an empty jar. Tell me how oh how do I get this sugary goodness back in my belly? What do I do to get them back?

Hey Sean,

Uninstall it and grab the alpha file again (see link below).

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tryserver-builds/edward.lee@engineering.uiuc.edu-15284adb0a68/

Do NOT update this with one of the nightly builds as they don't include the candy (instead there's little goblins in there to eats up all your goodies)!!

I'll be a happy pig when this gets to full release!!

YYYYYYYUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Jennifer.

You knew way to my heart is through my tummy.

You are officially hot.

Thank you for the heads up, and make that 2 happy pigs upon release!

This is an awesome feature. I have updated twice now and have had to reinstall.

I can't seem to find where updates are turned off. A poster above mentioned about:config, but I looked under help:about minfield and did not see config as an option. Nowhere in tools:options can I find an option to turn off updates (or set the update server to nonsense) as well.

try in options->advanced->update lol

If you're on a PC I'd think you should be able to go to Tools>Options>and from there navigate to where those settings are. I can check this when I get home (at school right now). If you're using a Mac you can turn off automatic updates for Minefield by going into Minefield>Preferences>Advanced tab>Updates tab and adjusting your settings there.

See picture.

Is there a keyboard shortcut to activate tabcandy?

If you have tab candy in your Minefield, you can toggle it with ctrl+space.

Thanks for the info. See the screenshot to see how to disable automatic updates for Minefield on PC.

Thanks Jennifer for giving me my Tab Candy back :)

AneesYounis,

That doesn't actually disable the automatic updates, if the notification window notifying you of the availability of an update times out because you didn't see it or you ignore it for too long, the update will be automatically downloaded. IMO, you are better off un-checking Minefield, as is shown in Jennifer's screenshot.

Thanks for that the-edmeister! I understand that I should really uncheck Minefield so that it stops automatically checking for updates. Me, being the idiot that I am, I would probably update without even realising.