Firefox 3 (BETA 2 ) Known issues and how to solve some of them

To those who don't know and want to try out the BETA 2 release of firefox 3, here's a link to their download site
(DOWNLOAD FIREFOX 3)




First, Here's a list of lesser known issues, and tips on how to remedy them:

Extensions that don't work

Since firefox 3 is new, the old extensions are not made compatible (although it can work), this is because of a comapitibility check, this can be turned off in about-> config by changing this code:

extensions.checkCompatibility = false

do take note however, that compatibility checks are there for a reason; some extensions are not really optimized for firefox 3 yet so it wouldn't be suprising if it won't work.

Ctrl+mousewheel scaling

When you scroll the mousewheel while holding control, firefox changes the font size like before but it also applies scaling to images as well (which might seem uneccessary) problem is, when you scroll it down, instead of making it larger, it does the opposite; something people just aren't used to. to remedy this, set the following values in about ->config

mousewheel.withcontrolkey.action = 3
mousewheel.withcontrolkey.numlines = -1

the address bar

If you hate the new address bar you could always install the oldbar extension, available for download.



And now, these better known problems (taken from mozilla site)
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0b2/releasenotes/#issues

do note however, that firefox 3 is still in BETA and hopefully, these issues would be solved at it's official release.

Known Issues

This list covers some of the known problems with Firefox 3 Beta 2. Please read
this before reporting any new bugs.

All Systems

• Privacy > History > Remember visited pages to "0" has no effect (bug 366075)


• MathML does not render properly in Firefox 3 Beta 2............... (bug 324857)



• Yahoo! Mail will not work; users must use Yahoo! Classic Mail (bug 398381)


• Windows Live Mail will not work; users must use Hotmail Classic Mail (bug 396259)


• Cannot drag and drop folders in the Places Organizer, for now users must use cut and paste (bug 405198)


• The new Location Bar, Add Bookmark dialog and Download Manager Information popup behave inconsistently with Window-Eyes and JAWS 9.0. Using JAWS 8.0 is recommended for this beta. (bug 407359 and bug 393398)



• The malware and phishing protection feature is not getting new data quickly enough, and may not work as expected............... (bug 402469)


• The phishing protection blacklist is not currently activated


• Using the Internet Download Manager add-on will cause Firefox to crash; it should be disabled or uninstalled (bug 382356)


• Using the ChatZilla add-on will cause Firefox to crash; it should be disabled or uninstalled (bug 407034)



• Cannot create new profiles with the Profile Manager in Turkish localized builds, use command line arguments instead................ (bug 408199)


• Web feeds served as text/html won't load properly (bug 381357)




Microsoft Windows







• Crash reports cannot be sent from machines running Windows Vista (bug 390568)


• Non-administrator Vista users are unable to launch Firefox if Vista Parental controls are enabled (bug 396509)


• A Windows Media Player (WMP) plugin is not provided with Windows Vista. As a workaround, in order to view Windows Media content, you can follow these instructions. Note that after installing you may have to get a security update and apply it before you can see the content in the browser.







Mac OS X






• Placing the cursor in the location bar or text fields sometimes doesn't work (bug 354768)







Linux and Unix






• Restarting Firefox from the crash reporter doesn't work on Fedora 8 (bug 407229)


• Some GTK themes fail to properly render the disabled state of checkboxes and radiobuttons (see bug 388131)



• Some icons are missing on 64-bit Ubuntu installations.... (bug 402742)