Re: [gentoo-amd64] Obligatory FF3 question.

["Dustin C. Hatch" <admiralnemo@pyrocufflink.net>]

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Beso wrote:
| 2008/6/18 Mark Haney <mhaney@ercbroadband.org
| <mailto:mhaney@ercbroadband.org>>:
|
|     Beso wrote:
|
|         2008/6/18 Mark Haney <mhaney@ercbroadband.org
|         <mailto:mhaney@ercbroadband.org>>:
|
|             M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
|
|                 Mark Haney wrote:
|
|                     So, how's it working?  Anyone emerged it yet?
|
|                      The binary is working ... the mirrors are hosed on
|                     the source version,
|
|                 though. They have the binary version and the checksums
|                 don't match.
|
|             I was able to get good source.  It built and it absolutely
|             hauls the
|             proverbial ass.
|
|
|         have you tried it with the new gnash plugin and the new icedtea
|         (the free
|         openjdk java plugin that seems to be compatible at 90% with
|         java6 ) on amd64
|         arch?
|
|
|
|
|     No I haven't.  How is it?
|
|
| well, icedtea, from the latest news in my possession has merged with
| openjdk ad java plugin and it supports nearly 90% of java around (this
| means that there's no need for a 32bit wrapper for java with firefox).
| gnash is now fully compatible with flash v7 and has about 50% of flash 8
| and 9 serie. now with the opening of the flash format specifications
| gnash should progress much faster than it was before. for example i've
| read that with firefox 2 with gnash and java youtube (usually a quite
| bad site for flash players and which has also some java code included,
| for my knowledge) is playing well (more than 85% of videos work well and
| the remnants just need to use the gnash controls to work).
| but as i've said, i haven't tried it yet so i don't know if these
| assertions are reallly true.
|
|
| --
| dott. ing. beso

I literally just tried this and I cannot get a single flash video on
youtube to work. Not even their silly "see what's playing now" banners
load. All I get is a gray box and some garbage on the command line about
~ SWF8 not being supported. Advertisements like shoot the terrorist, win
a laptop, however, seem to be working fine...

I have been using FF3 though since alpha 1 and beginning with beta 2, I
haven't had a single issue. Sites load fine (even those that say they
will not work in FF3, like my college's online component), and the
browser is pretty stable. Only crash was actually the fault of VMWare,
not Firefox.

All in all, a great leap forward for Mozilla!

Dustin C. Hatch
theNeverFading
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