Firefox 3 and Aspire 8920

I bought my Acer Aspire 8920-6746 a few weeks ago from Newegg. It's running Vista 64-bit and I have two problems with Firefox 3.

1. The fingerprint reader is supposed to work natively with IE7 it looks like. Does anyone know any Firefox addons that would work? I've tried Fingerfox but it doesn't really do anything.

2. Some login screens just disappear after a few seconds for me. They'll come back after a few seconds but they'll do the same thing. I'm not sure what's going on.

There must be other people here using Firefox on their new computers so I'm wondering if anyone has some work arounds for these problems.

Also one hint that I found. If the CineDash console is acting imprecise, tap the + and - signs on the display and it will increment accurately. Also, FN-up and FN-down are supposed to change volume but haven't been working for me lately.

 

i've never loaded FF2 or 3,, but i recall a thread that talked about a PLUGIN for the print reader to work with FF3 (not sure if it was vista 64bit though..

try search for

FINGERPRINT ACER FIREFOX3 in the search box below

 

have you tried the 64-bit Firefox?

http://wiki.mozilla-x86-64.com/Download

(would that make a difference?)

 

Hi,

I have exactly the same problem with my Acer 6920G

1) I can't use the fingerprint reader with Firefox. Currently using FF3, but it's the same with FF2.

2) Whenever i tried to access my Sky Broadband Router, via it's IP address, the password box pops up....then dissapears for a few seconds then comes back....and so on. Sometimes it'll disappear & if you click anywhere on the screen it just beeps. You have to click the taskbar & back onto FFox to open it back up. Then the popup keeps doing the same, until you quickly close it.

After reinstalling to factory default & installing FFox again, all is fine. then when i install the Windows updates, about 21 of them, the problem comes back. It must be one of the updates that's the issue. So i'll have to re-install again & install the updates one by one.

Anybody any ideas or help on this? Is is so frustrating.

Many thanks

 

The thing here : http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=272553

http://www.upek.com/support/customersupport/techsupport/Topic.asp?ID_Topic=53

This does nothing for me.

Yes, using IETab is a solution and I'm doing it on one of the websites I know I would like to use the fingerprint reader on, but it's a work around, not exactly what I should have to do.

Maybe I'll write my own Firefox add-on that integrates with Acer Bio Protection.