Firefox in Hardy looks iffy.

So I'm loving me some hardy except firefox is bugging the crap outta me. I've taken a screenshot which shows exactly how my firefox looks like. Other websites aren't too much of a deal, it's mostly NBR, but still. I have a feeling it is firefox related.

Scweeny

It's not cool lol.

 

Font problem?

 

Try fiddling around in the preferences.
Also, is this FF final or FF3 Beta?

 

I tried almost every font. Maybe I shouldn't let NBR override browser settings. Lemme try that.

@Thomas: Hardy's default is FF3b5. So it's that.

Edit: Hmm, now it's far better, although I do think it could nicer. I can live though. Thanks, both of you for confirming my font suspicion .

 

I'm having problems in firefox with youtube. If I try to open a video, it crashes probably 3/4s of the time.

 

Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me about it - youtube works most of the time, but gametrailer fails. Also, so does this website called "www.cosmodeonline.com" - scroll down to the bottom of the page and there should be "A little something to tease your pallette". Whatever is there just doesn't load for me .

 

Why don't you install Minefield and see if it fixes the problems? It's like the beta's but constantly updated. That way you can report problems to help out too.

 

Hmmm....

It's an Adobe Flash animation, so how's your flash plugin?

 

about lugins say that it is installed =\

 

Does it say Adobe 9? Because I think that's what I saw when I looked at the properties...

 

Yeah, I don't think including Firefox 3 Beta 5 as the default browser was a wise choice: it still has a lot of issues. However, there is a package called "firefox-2", and that's what I installed on my Kubuntu Hardy install.

 

Weird, youtube works fine. But cosmodeonline doesn't. I'll get firefox-2 and see how that goes.

Actually, youtube is kinda choppy. Firefox as a whole is. I'm not impressed with FF3b5. I know this is RC, but RTM better be better. I'm talking purely on the linux side - it performs better on Windows, except that it crashes every now and then. FF3b4 was more stable (for Windows).

Update: firefox-2 was terrible. It was slower, no back and forward buttons, and just overall purely clunky. .

 

That happened to me. Has anyone tried Opera?

 

Actually, I just might. Will get back to you on how that works. Maybe it's all coz I'm running RC 8.04 and not RTM

Update: Weird, I installed it, but it won't run =\

 

Install this: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13470096/nspluginwrapper_0.9.91.5-2ubuntu2_i386.deb it will prevent flash from taking firefox down with it. More info here.
How do you prevent nbr from overiding your ff settings? It looks horrible.

 

Go to Edit -> Preferences -> Content -> Click on "Advanced" next to fonts -> Uncheck Allow pages to choose their own fonts.

Go back, and set the defualt font to "Nice" (size - 16) - it is actually the most favorable offering. 'Course, if you do find another font that plays better, do let me know .

 

Yeah, 8.04 Beta came with both FF 3.5 and FF 2. Just install FF 2 for work-related tasks until they polish up FF 3

 

Like I said, FF2 fails hard on my computer .

 

Yeah, I've been having some problems too in terms of installing add-ons for both.

 

I haven't gotten around to testing FF3 yet but so far I'm not happy that Adblock plus is disabled, thats a big security hole right there. Not to mention an annoyance.

I understand they want to be bleeding edge on a new release but its kinda pushing it.

 

Adblock plus work fine, just download it directly from the mozilla website.

 

Adblock works in FF3. I've been using it for 1-1.5 week now. The big caveat with 3.0b5 is that many extensions do not work in it. (About 1/3rd of my extensions are disabled because of incompatibility. Adblock is *not* one of them.) Also, it does crash more than FF2 at this point.

 

This summarizes my feelings regarding what Ubuntu is doing with ff 3:

 

I experience a lot of crashes with FF3 with Adblock Plus, just get rid of it and FF3 will never crash again.

 

@viking: That's a lame "DO NOT WANT" picture .

@Calvin: Nuuuu, I want me some ABP. D:

 

Better?

 

Let's keep it on topic ...

On a different note, I just installed Hardy last night and am not really feeling FF3, either. We'll just have to fool with it and do the best we can until all the bug are ironed out.

 

Just installed Xubuntu last night, the whole thing looks fine to me...

 

Hey David, how are those plugins working for you? I don't like the big "PLAY" icon that I have to click on to actually see the flash animation.

Another thing that I'm having trouble with, is game trailers. That website just doesn't work for me.

I'm not liking the fonts either, everything just looks terrible. I demand a better browsing experience.

 

FF 3b5 with Adblock plus on Hardy is working fine for me after using it for a day.

 

I found a fix for FF3 on Hardy.

1. Go to synaptic
2. Uncheck / un-install Firefox 3.
3. Check / install Firefox 2.
4. Wait for final FF3.

There, fixed!

 

Hmm. FF3 doesn't look so hot on Hardy, does it?

 

Well, Beta 5 did, I've been using it...

 

It looks fine to me in Xubuntu...maybe it varies.

 

Does anybody knows how to change the dpi of the nvidia driver? Everything looks like it's in bold and it's extremely annoying...

 

I know the feeling...it is annoying...

 

hmm....I changed my default FF3 font to Segoe UI size 16, changed fonts under advanced to same where I could, left sizes alone there, and unchecked 'let sites use their own fonts' and it looks much much nicer!