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I got the new version and it does seem to crash intermittently with the old IPC.  It is relatively inconsistent.  I did find that a workaround is to disable FireFTP and then you can switch back if it won't let you.  I had it crash quite often on the older one.  Anyways I found some small typos and cosmetic issues with the new version.

#1: On the first warning dialog it says "If you click on 'Yes', FireGPG will try to access to the old library, but it's may crash Firefox."

There are actually 3 errors. There is no "Yes" button.  Just either OK or Cancel.  There is a grammatical error.  ...will try to access to the... should be ...will try to access the... (an extra "to" there).  it's probably should just be it (no apostrophe s).  There is a second case of that last one earlier in the dialog too.  There is a gender reference where I wouldn't of considered it needed. (Why reference the IPC library as a 'She'?)

#2: On the second dialog it says "Perfect, if you can read this message, firefox didn't crash ! I will always use this way to access to gnupg in the futur."

It is better stated... "Perfect, if you can read this message, then firefox didn't crash! I will always use this way to access gnupg in the future."
Add additional word "then"; remove errornous space right before exclamation mark; remove errornous word "to"; correct typo of "futur" to  "future"

#3: The key list at the bottom of the options screen is too small.  Can't select any other keys easily.

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As I stated previously it worked fine with 0.52 (and since that one is not available I can verify with 0.5).  There are no plugins that should be blocking access to external applications however I think your path indicated that you are on a linux or unix based system.  I think that is the key and that it is working fine on the linux front but not on windows.  I'll verify in a bit.  Anyways I compared settings as listed in about:config for both 0.5 and in 0.6 and I found the following two keys to not be set after an initial load.

extensions.firegpg.gpg_path
extensions.firegpg.xpcom_state

To me it would seem that it is not detecting gpg at all and is not checking my path statement in 0.6 where in 0.5 it autodetected it properly and populated the first one.  The second one would refer to xpcom which if I read the notes right is no longer being used in 0.6.

Output of gpg --version

gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.9
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Home: C:/Documents and Settings/shinji/Application Data/gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224

EDIT: Well it definitely works on linux.  I tested it under Ubuntu 8.10 Beta and it worked fine.  I generated a test key (one month expiry) and checked and it works fine.  Maybe it is one of the extensions that I have installed so I will disable all of them and check for that.

On that note here is a list of extensions, themes, and addons that I have configured in Firefox...

Generated: Fri Oct 17 2008 18:47:54 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3
Build ID: 2008092417

Enabled Extensions: [28]
- Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.1.3: http://www.pierceive.com/
- Adblock Plus 0.7.5.5: http://adblockplus.org/
- Better Gmail 2 0.7: http://ginatrapani.org/workshop/firefox/bettergmail2/
- Cert Viewer Plus 1.4: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/1964/
- DownThemAll! 1.0.3: http://downthemall.net/
- Firefox Companion for eBay 1.6.6: http://www.ebay.com/
- FireFTP 1.0.2: http://fireftp.mozdev.org
- FireGPG 0.5: http://www.getfiregpg.org/
- Flagfox 3.3.3: http://flagfox.servehttp.com/
- FlashGot 1.1.2: http://flashgot.net
- FoxyProxy 2.8.9: http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org
- Greasemonkey 0.8.20080609.0: http://www.greasespot.net/
- IE Tab 1.5.20080823: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/1419
- Image Zoom 0.3.1: http://imagezoom.yellowgorilla.net/
- Java Console 6.0.05: http://www.google.com/search?q=Firefox%20Java%20Console
- Java Console 6.0.03: http://www.google.com/search?q=Firefox%20Java%20Console
- Java Console 6.0.04: http://www.google.com/search?q=Firefox%20Java%20Console
- Java Console 6.0.07: http://www.google.com/search?q=Firefox%20Java%20Console
- meebo 1.1: http://www.meebo.com/
- MR Tech Toolkit (formerly Local Install) 6.0.1: http://www.mrtech.com/extensions/
- PayPal Plug-In for Firefox 2.1.55.0: http://www.google.com/search?q=Firefox% … %20Firefox
- PDF Download 2.0.0.0: http://www.pdfdownload.org
- Personas for Firefox 1.0a6: http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/personas/
- Sage 1.4.2: http://sage.mozdev.org
- Stylish 0.5.7: http://userstyles.org/stylish/
- Tab Mix Plus 0.3.7pre.080816: http://tmp.garyr.net
- Ubiquity 0.1.1: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity
- Woot Watcher 1.0.6: http://www.google.com/search?q=Firefox%20Woot%20Watcher

Installed Themes: [2]
- Default: http://www.mozilla.org/
- Whitehart 3.4: http://dongato.dyndns.org/whitehart/

Installed Plugins: (22)
- 2007 Microsoft Office system
- Adobe Acrobat
- Google Update
- IE Tab Plug-in
- iTunes Application Detector
- Java(TM) Platform SE 6 U7
- Keyring Plugin
- LogMeIn, Inc. Rescue Console 5.1.0.388
- Microsoft

Ok.  Continuing on.  I have updated to 0.6.1 but now I get the follow error.

FireGPG is unable to access the gpg executable.  Make sure GPG is installed or specify the path in the preferences.

I have specified the location manually and made sure gpg is installed there but still get the error.  It worked fine in 0.5.  I had just done a downgrade earlier to verify.  If you want to send me a test version before release then let me know.

Somehow this seems like it started happening after the IPC change.