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[clevin]

By now you probably know that firefox will require gtk 2.10+, which stock EEE doesn't have. And before ASUS take any responsibility.

Here is a work around

1. download gtk 2.10

wget http://apt.linex.org/linex/gtk-2.10/libgtk2.0-0_2.10.13-2~bpo.1_i386.deb

2. extract it to a folder, e.g., gtk2-10

dpkg-deb -x libgtk2.0-0_2.10.13-2~bpo.1_i386.deb gtk2-10

3. download firefox 3 (now in beta 5) http://www.mozilla.c...x/all-beta.html

4. extract firefox 3 in file manager

5. go into the firefox folder, open firefox ( scrip file in the folder, about 3.9KB in size) with text editor.

6. add "
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/user/gtk2-10/usr/lib" after first line. the file should look like this

#!/bin/sh
#
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/user/gtk2-10/usr/lib" 
...
...

7. save the file, double click it to start firefox 3.

PS. the UI might not be fully adjusted, but better than nothing, since I truly believe firefox 3 is a very significant update, and probably will be the best browser when final comes out.

Edited by clevin, 05 April 2008 - 01:54 PM.

[mkrishnan]

I just went from 3b3 to 3b5 yesterday... it's coming along very nicely. In between the two betas, though, for whatever reason, I did find that b5 did not like my b3 profile. It kept forgetting preferences on restart. Oddly, there were some write protected files in my .mozilla folder when I tried to nuke the whole thing. Anyway, though, I just deleted the whole .mozilla folder and redid my add ons and settings (actually didn't take long at all), and I'm back up to speed. :)

So just as a warning, if you do not have a backup of your bookmarks at least, go do it before you upgrade.

Adblock Plus and DownloadStatusBar work if you use dev builds / nightlies. Fullerscreen doesn't appear to be available at this time.

It's crazy fast. :)

[clevin]

Its really especially good for EEEPC 701.

we all complain about screen resolution being too small and we need to drag the horizontal scroll bar for most webpages. With firefox 3, full page zoom, it feels like you have a in-browser screen res adjustment. ctrl+-

Edited by clevin, 05 April 2008 - 10:27 PM.

[mkrishnan]

So is there an extension that automatically causes pages to zoom to fit width like on the iPhone?

[clevin]

not yet, but with such a potential, i would expect somebody will make it very soon.

at the same time, firefox 3 will "remember" zoom setting for each website, so if you shrink one webite to fit the screen, next time you visit, it will be at that size automatically.

Edited by clevin, 05 April 2008 - 10:41 PM.

[solenostomus]

I would like to switch to FF3 for its pagezooming coolness.

Can someone check how much diskspace it eats up? (new gtk + FF3)

I have a permanently mounted 8GB SD-card - could I install FF3 to that and save internal diskspace?

Cheers

[clevin]

gtk package, after de-compress, is 4.48MB, firefox 3, after de-compress, is 24.5MB, together they are 29MB.

I wouldn't recommend put it on external SD, just for the speed.

You can goto firefox's preference->advanced->network, reduce the disk cache to 20, or 30MB. That would reduce the disk usage.

Also you can shrink the cache size for firefox 2 as well. save quite a bit space.

[mkrishnan]

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at the same time, firefox 3 will "remember" zoom setting for each website, so if you shrink one webite to fit the screen, next time you visit, it will be at that size automatically.

Thanks! I noticed that when I went to the NYT today, having zoomed it out yesterday. :) Could use some better smoothing, but very functional. Hopefully, someone indeed will make an autozoom tool, which will make it much better.

[solenostomus]

Thanks for the installation guide. I downloaded, extracted and ran FF3 from my SD-card mounted user-partition and had no problems. The fullscreen mode rocks. It is exactly what the EEE needs - how the top section just fads out is plain magic!!!
I am very excited for it to go out of beta!!!

No I just need to figure out to convince Yahoo Mail that screen isn't too small. Why do I have to see the stupid resolution warning screen every time when it looks perfectly OK on a 800x480 screen. Any ideas? Yahoo customer service is of no help (been playing email ping pong with them for weeks and they still ask me to clear my cookies and my cache :-#) Sorry that rant should really go in a different thread...

[cjdshaw]

Funny. I don't get the Yahoo Mail resolution warning any more

[Grimmy]

Did any of you get Flash working? If so how did you do it? Symlink to the already installed version?

[solenostomus]

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Did any of you get Flash working? If so how did you do it? Symlink to the already installed version?

while I was still on FF2 I upgraded flash to the latest version (download and install .deb package from adobe.com)
when I upgraded to FF3 it was already there and I didn't have to install it again. I can't say why it worked in FF3 - it just did.

[clevin]

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Did any of you get Flash working? If so how did you do it? Symlink to the already installed version?

I copied /opt/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so to firefox/plugins/ works fine so far..

PS. firefox 3 zoom out/in flash video as well...

Edited by clevin, 09 April 2008 - 07:50 PM.

[Grimmy]

Thanks for the replies... I'll try downloading the latest version first, as I'm guessing it fixes one or two security flaws :)

[Grimmy]

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while I was still on FF2 I upgraded flash to the latest version (download and install .deb package from adobe.com)

Do you know what version of Flash you are using?

I looked on Adobe.com and could only find a tar.gz and a RPM package. I grabbed the RPM and converted it to deb using alien, but it depends on various libraries that are newer than are available on the eeepc. I tried adding debian unstable to get the latest libraries but it gave me warnings that it really wasn't a good idea so I chickened out.

[clevin]

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while I was still on FF2 I upgraded flash to the latest version (download and install .deb package from adobe.com)

Do you know what version of Flash you are using?

I looked on Adobe.com and could only find a tar.gz and a RPM package. I grabbed the RPM and converted it to deb using alien, but it depends on various libraries that are newer than are available on the eeepc. I tried adding debian unstable to get the latest libraries but it gave me warnings that it really wasn't a good idea so I chickened out.

there is really only one file needed for firefox, libflahplayer.so

You can jut download tar.gz, extract it, and copy libflashplayer.so to firefox/plugins/

UPDATE: no, new version I got from adobe seems to crash firefox 3 beta5..

Edited by clevin, 09 April 2008 - 10:19 PM.

[Grimmy]

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You can jut download tar.gz, extract it, and copy libflashplayer.so to firefox/plugins/

UPDATE: no, new version I got from adobe seems to crash firefox 3 beta5..

I just grabbed the tar.gz and extrcted the .so to plugins and it seems to be working fine for me.

Now I just need to sort out this fugly theme if possible.

Edited by Grimmy, 09 April 2008 - 11:08 PM.

[clevin]

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You can jut download tar.gz, extract it, and copy libflashplayer.so to firefox/plugins/

UPDATE: no, new version I got from adobe seems to crash firefox 3 beta5..

I just grabbed the tar.gz and extrcted the .so to plugins and it seems to be working fine for me.

Now I just need to sort out this fugly theme if possible.

run from terminal indicates that firefox can't find clearlooks engine, so it draws plain widgets. I can manage it with personas tho.
http://labs.mozilla....as-for-firefox/

[geekguyandy]

i did those steps, and it runs, bu it opens shell every time. is there a way to avoid that? some command for the startup maybe?

[clevin]

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i did those steps, and it runs, bu it opens shell every time. is there a way to avoid that? some command for the startup maybe?

if u are running full desktop mode, you can right click desktop and create an application launcher.

if you are running easy mode, which I do, what I did is to first enable "home" icon ( http://wiki.eeeuser....nu_in_easy_mode ), then edit the icewm menu and add firefox 3's path to the menu (e.g., http://wiki.eeeuser....rtmenutemplates ), such that I can run firefox 3 from icewm menu, no terminal....