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. 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. 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/古人西辭黃鶴樓煙花三月/ I don't know why this is so, any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! 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. 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. :-) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
