Hi Alfred, Thanks for spending Sunday afternoon replying to my question. FF3 runs fine on SX, it was DP2 that I was having problems with.
The Chinese-language web page browsing problem was related to the lack of fonts in DP2; it was solved after I copied several Chinese fonts from another distro. Thanks again. > 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 > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org This message posted from opensolaris.org
