Re: [gentoo-amd64] Obligatory FF3 question.

[Beso <givemesugarr@gmail.com>]

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2008/6/19 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>>:
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> |
> |             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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as i've said i've just read about it some days ago and don't know if it
works but from what you're saying it seems that the article wasn't quite
reliable...
well, i'll just skip that for now if that's the actual state of art.

ps. when i've tried ff3-rc3 a site that opened with ff2 (javascript site)
won't open with ff3 of with konqueror3 or 4 with fake ff2 engine.


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dott. ing. beso

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