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Firefox 3.0 RC2 News

Started by lazy, 2008.06.06, 11:24:55

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lazy

http://www.os2world.com/content/view/18081/2/
QuotePosted by Martin Iturbide - Sunday, 01 June 2008


Unfortunatel. .. .

If I understood it right, there will be no new PmwFx'es so we've got the only browser for OS/2.

Ben

Quote from: lazy on 2008.06.06, 11:24:55
If I understood it right, there will be no new PmwFx'es so we've got the only browser for OS/2.

I haven't heard that one floating around, but surely it's bad news. :-\

Who/what's the source?

DavidG

Quote from: lazy on 2008.06.06, 11:24:55
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/18081/2/
QuotePosted by Martin Iturbide - Sunday, 01 June 2008


Unfortunatel. .. .

If I understood it right, there will be no new PmwFx'es so we've got the only browser for OS/2.

Martin

You are talking about Peter's builds.  Why don't you email him and ask him?

mozilla {at} Weilbacher {dot} org

David

BigWarpGuy

Quote from: David Graser on 2008.06.06, 21:58:56
Quote from: lazy on 2008.06.06, 11:24:55
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/18081/2/
QuotePosted by Martin Iturbide - Sunday, 01 June 2008


Unfortunatel. .. .

If I understood it right, there will be no new PmwFx'es so we've got the only browser for OS/2.

Martin

You are talking about Peter's builds.  Why don't you email him and ask him?

mozilla {at} Weilbacher {dot} org

David

I sent him an e-mail about an OS/2-eCS version of Firefox 3.0.

BigWarpGuy

I received a reply from the porter of it to OS/2-eCS. He said there is one. I will give the pre-test one a try.  ;D

BigWarpGuy

"Yes, sure there will be an OS/2 version. It will even contain all of the
enhancements that I shipped with my PmW-* releases (except MNG). If
you want
to test a pre-release, please take a look at the latest nightly:
   
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/contrib/latest-trunk/


The biggest problem is:
- Instead of crashing when printing, as a workaround, we now always print
to a PDF file (by default on the Desktop). It should then be possible
to print that using GSview, Lucide, or Acrobat. (I still hope that we
can fix that problem for real for one of the Firefox 3.0.x releases.)

Best wishes,
Peter.
"
I received permission to post this. I like using FireFox.

lazy

I've always using Pmw-Fx branch of FireFox so Peter's answer about cancelling this branch is very sad for me :(

RobertM

#7
I dunno... it sounds almost like he has contributed his efforts towards the main OS/2 build and is assisting with it... read the email again and tell me what you think. Specifically these parts (emphasis mine):


"Yes, sure there will be an OS/2 version. It will even contain all of the
enhancements that I shipped with my PmW-* releases (except MNG)
. If
you want
to test a pre-release, please take a look at the latest nightly:
   
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/contrib/latest-trunk/


The biggest problem is:
- Instead of crashing when printing, as a workaround, we now always print
to a PDF file (by default on the Desktop)
. It should then be possible
to print that using GSview, Lucide, or Acrobat. (I still hope that we
can fix that problem
for real for one of the Firefox 3.0.x releases.)

Best wishes,
Peter.
"


I've been up for a day straight getting ready to go on a trip... so I could definitely be misreading/misinterpreting the meaning though.



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ivan

I have tried the various versions of ff3 and rejected them for one simple reason - everything  in the menus and bookmarks is double spaced!!
If anyone knows a way round this I would like them to share it.

Other than that It appears reasonable but much of the vaunted advantages appear to rely on parts OS/2 does not have i.e flash etc.


The Blue Warper

#9
Quote from: ivan on 2008.06.13, 00:47:47
I have tried the various versions of ff3 and rejected them for one simple reason - everything  in the menus and bookmarks is double spaced!!
If anyone knows a way round this I would like them to share it.

Try to change the default font.  This is from the FF3b5 readme:

«Firefox cannot make use of OS/2 fonts like WarpSans and others which are not available in Type1 or TrueType format. It is therefore recommended to install the "Workplace Sans" font from
http://www.cs-club.org/~alex/creative/fonts/
or
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=wpsu_ttf
which Firefox will use as a replacement of WarpSans.»

I hope this solves your issue.

Carlo_Warp

I confirm the same problem: the space between bookmarks is too big. When I click on the bookmarks menu, the menu itself is not contained in the page and I have to scroll down. It doesn't happen with PW Firefox, which I am using now.

Quote from: ivan on 2008.06.13, 00:47:47
I have tried the various versions of ff3 and rejected them for one simple reason - everything  in the menus and bookmarks is double spaced!!
If anyone knows a way round this I would like them to share it.

Other than that It appears reasonable but much of the vaunted advantages appear to rely on parts OS/2 does not have i.e flash etc.



BigWarpGuy

"
Btw, saw the thread on os2world.com, but lost my login some time ago.

Just to clarify: Even for the official Gecko 1.8.x releases (SeaMonkey 1.1.x,
Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0.0.x) I was already one of the main contributors.
For the Gecko 1.9 release (i.e. Firefox 3.0) I am the main developer of the
OS/2 backend (this was previously called the "port owner" and was done by Mike
Kaply in the past). Releasing a separate PmW-* version wouldn't really make
sense any more.

As explained before, I am not yet completely happy with the functionality,
which is partly because only very few users wanted to test the new version
up to now, so many bugs are discovered only now. But this has nothing to do
with not publishing a separate PmW-* edition.

Feel free to forward this to the forum or whatever...
   Peter.
"
Posted with permission from the sender.

Carlo_Warp

He said "Only few users wanted to test the new version up to now". Users should give better feedback about the tested products, shouldn't they? And Pw Firefox is a nice browser.

jep

#13
Hello,

and that has to be done in the mozilla bugtracker?


//Jan-Erik
__________
Please develop ONE wheel, once, not a million wheels a million times.

Saijin_Naib

I never had any issue with the PWM Firefox that I felt was necessary to report. Just the usual crap with FLASH 7 instability, IFE instability, and yeah, thats all. Nothing I felt he needed to hear because they aren't his issues to fix.