Re: [indiana-discuss] FF3 on DP2 (Was: Status for Firefox 3 in Solaris)

2008-04-13 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> 3. The system (DP2) would slow to a crawl when (& > only when) I tried to open Chinese-language pages Well, I am relieved to report that this problem has been (kind of) solved; it was (most likely) related to the frugality of fonts included in DP2. Everything (wrt to browsing Chinese-language

Re: [indiana-discuss] FF3 on DP2 (Was: Status for Firefox 3 in Solaris)

2008-04-13 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
g5 (traditional Chinese, ROC) > character set, while the second uses GB2312 > (simplified Chinese, PRC). These are two of the most > popular Chinese web pages (but I have experienced > similar slowness problems in other Chinese-language > pages). This is way beyond my league, but perhaps > someon

Re: [indiana-discuss] FF3 on DP2 (Was: Status for Firefox 3 in Solaris)

2008-04-13 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> > 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.or

Re: [indiana-discuss] FF3 on DP2 (Was: Status for Firefox 3 in Solaris)

2008-04-12 Thread Matt Ingenthron
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > 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

Re: [indiana-discuss] FF3 on DP2 (Was: Status for Firefox 3 in Solaris)

2008-04-12 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
I had to kill the xwindow > (control-alter-delete) a couple of times to get my > GNOME desktop back. Oops, it should be control-alter-backspace. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.or

[indiana-discuss] FF3 on DP2 (Was: Status for Firefox 3 in Solaris)

2008-04-12 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
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 brow