Dear Fedora Developers, I've noticed some funny problems with Firefox on Fedora. Nothing catastrophic but not as user friendly as Firefox on Windows XP. I list the problems below. But I think it would be a good idea to have Firefox 2.0 test releases available in an experimental repository for FC5 so that they could get testing before Firefox 2.0 is released in September. This idea is similar to the AIGLX repository available for AIGLX's testing, and also similar to the inclusion of Gnome development branches in rawhide. I've been trying unsuccesfully to get a CVS build of Firefox to work on FC5, but for whatever reason after all is done it redirects to Firefox 1.5.0.1. But here are the minor nuisances I've experienced with Firefox 1.5.0.1 on FC5: 1) The middle button on the mouse doesn't allow the scroll button to appear, so that I can navigate up and down long web pages. 2) The middle button on the mouse doesn't allow other tabs to be closed simply by middle-button-clicking the tabs. 3) Certain keywords, such as 'wp linux' to look up Linux in Wikipedia don't work. 4) If I drag selected text into the search box at the top of Firefox it will automatically begin to search for that text in the current tab. In fact, I actually want to go to another new tab before beginning the search, and from that new tab I will activate the search box. This isn't a problem on Windows XP. 5) Occasionally web sites unintentionally become draggable. Then the only thing to do is drag the draggable to the tab where it is already shown. I think it happens because you click on a new tab, and then accidentally drag the new tab outside of it's place. For whatever reason, this never happens to me on Windows XP. So Firefox doesn't have the same polish as Windows XP, but overall it's highly functional. I think it's more important to have test releases of Firefox 2.0 available to testers so that all those nasty bugs that can only be rooted out by long term use of a test release are in fact rooted out. Benjy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
