Re: [WSG] firefox 3 beta5

2008-05-20 Thread Felix Miata
On 2008/05/21 07:43 (GMT+1000) Korny Sietsma apparently typed: > Sorry, I didn't mean "if I had FF3 running" - I had it *installed* but not > running. And maybe I could have made it work, but I was under time > pressure. I just installed FF2 through Ubuntu's standard "apt" system, and > I'd hoped

Re: [WSG] firefox 3 beta5

2008-05-20 Thread Korny Sietsma
Sorry, I didn't mean "if I had FF3 running" - I had it *installed* but not running. And maybe I could have made it work, but I was under time pressure. I just installed FF2 through Ubuntu's standard "apt" system, and I'd hoped that it would be configured to install it completely independently. Whe

Re: [WSG] firefox 3 beta5

2008-05-20 Thread Felix Miata
On 2008/05/20 18:27 (GMT+1000) Korny Sietsma apparently typed: > I have had problems running FF2 on a machine also running FF3 - > specifically, and fatally for me, FireBug wouldn't install cleanly in > FF2 if I had FF3 running. Did you ever think to try closing the other long enough to get it to

RE: [WSG] firefox 3 beta5

2008-05-20 Thread Patrick Lauke
> Korny Sietsma > Release Candidate 1 is out now, so hopefully things will get more > stable when Ubuntu picks it up, but at the moment it's a world of pain > - at least for my configuration! Beta5 and RC1 have been rock-solid on my systems (WinXP). And, as far as I understand, RC1 is fairly fea

Re: [WSG] firefox 3 beta5

2008-05-20 Thread Korny Sietsma
I have had problems running FF2 on a machine also running FF3 - specifically, and fatally for me, FireBug wouldn't install cleanly in FF2 if I had FF3 running. I'd load FF3 in a vmware image, or maybe test it with an Ubuntu 8.04 live CD. Note that beta 5 at least is still rather unstable. I've m

Re: [WSG] firefox 3 beta5

2008-05-19 Thread Felix Miata
On 2008/05/20 15:13 (GMT+1200) Paul Bennett apparently typed: > Ack! > Anyone else had horrible problems installing FF3? No, but ... > My install crashes every time I open it, so I had to reinstall FF2.. I avoid "installing" applications whenever possible. In the case of unreleased Gecko produc

RE: [WSG] firefox 3 beta5

2008-05-19 Thread Paul Bennett
Ack! Anyone else had horrible problems installing FF3? My install crashes every time I open it, so I had to reinstall FF2.. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup

Re: [WSG] firefox 3 beta5

2008-05-19 Thread Michael Horowitz
If its a Beta I would say wait until its done before rewriting anything that is currently W3C CSS compliant. Remember beta means not done. If you are interested in judging beta releases test it an decide why its breaking. Are you currently fulfilling W3C standards. If you are and its break

Re: [WSG] firefox 3 beta5

2008-05-19 Thread David Dorward
On 19 May 2008, at 10:37, kevin mcmonagle wrote: Recently it was pointed out to me that a site I built is breaking in firefox 3 beta five. How close is this to release? RC1 just came out Do i need to worry about this? the site works fine in current browsers-firefox and otherwise. I'd b

[WSG] firefox 3 beta5

2008-05-19 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Recently it was pointed out to me that a site I built is breaking in firefox 3 beta five. How close is this to release? Do i need to worry about this? the site works fine in current browsers-firefox and otherwise. -thanks in advance kevin **