Hi Wayne, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > Thanks. I installed FF3 beta4 on Indiana DP2. Here are some of my quick > observations: > > 1. It started OK, but for some reason I crashed my GNOME desktop. I had to > kill the xwindow (control-alter-delete) a couple of times to get my GNOME > desktop back. > I've been using Firefox 3.0 b3 on DP2 since I installed it. It works fine for me, without crash. Well, I didn't enable any extensions/plugins(Flash/Java). Any detail for the crash? core stack? specific web causes the crash? > 2. FF2 looks really ugly on DP2. To make browsing pleasant (& FF2 can > indeed look quite pleasant), I always have to set the default font to > sans-serif with a minimum font size of 17. FF3 is much better in this > regard. Although there is some jaggedness with the serif font, but the web > page looks much better even with the serif font. > The detail for this font issue can be found here: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=513. > 3. The system (DP2) would slow to a crawl when (& only when) I tried to open > Chinese-language pages, for example: > > http://news.chinatimes.com/ > > http://www.people.com.cn/ > > However, I don't have problem with e.g., the following page: > > http://www.nomadicminds.org/blogs/2008/04/06/???????????/ > > I don't know why this is so, any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! > Just a guess: marquee? flash? The pages are fine with my current FF 3.0b5(Nevada), without enabling Flash Plugin. > 4. One of the key improvements of FF3 over FF2 is the "full page-width" > feature. My mother always complained that her Fidelity.com (FF2 on S10u4) > page looks different from her friends' (IE7), i.e., the "fixed income" button > was missing from her Fidelity.com panel. I believe she will be very happy > with FF3. > The new bookmark/history management and the URL auto-completion is quite helpful for me:) With several key words, the URL can be found really quickly. > 5. My BIGGEST complaint, of course, is that how could have we forgot about > the java plug-in? Unlike the Flash plug-in, which can be installed on the > fly, there is no easy way to install the java plug-in. I did a quick and > dirty soft link of the file /usr/lib//firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so to > the plugins sub-directory of the installed directory. I am sure this is an > oversight, but, hey, this is "the" java plug-in that we are talking about. > :-) The current OJI based Java plugin seems to be buggy. The Java team is working on the new Java Plug-in which is based on the Mozilla NPRuntime Plugin API. It'll only be available for Firefox 3.0, not 2.0. Anyway, since we've included jre in the LiveCD, the Firefox plugin should also be enabled.
Cheers, -Alfred
