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[brisalta]

By the way the XO  Browse activity is set to "layout.css.dpi" = 134.  You might want to try that value in Firefox as they both use gecko under the hood.
By the way about:config works in the Browse activity and the right-hand (o) touchpad button brings up a hover menu for editing a selected line in the Browse config. 

[samphilomath]

Do you run from the ctrl-alt-neighborhood command line, or the Terminal command line.  Whenever I try from the ctrl-alt-neighborhood line, I get an error of "Error: no display specified", and have to open through Terminal, which means I have to keep terminal open.  any suggestions?

I haven't tried it, but I have suggestions.

From the "ctrl-alt-neighborhood line":

DISPLAY=:0 firefox3 &

from Terminal:

nohup firefox3 &

Replace "firefox3" with whatever your binary is called.

I hope one of these works for you.

I cant remember what my firefox binary name is and I dont where know firefox is located on my XO. Its not in /home/olpc/firefox/firefox . I tried using the "find" command, still no luck.

When I typed firefox in the terminal it run fine, but I need to run it from ctrl-alt-neighborhood line. I do have a good reason for wanted to be able to do that. Will explain why later.


How do I find the directory where firefox is located  and the firefox binary name?

Please help.

[Heng]

Do you run from the ctrl-alt-neighborhood command line, or the Terminal command line.  Whenever I try from the ctrl-alt-neighborhood line, I get an error of "Error: no display specified", and have to open through Terminal, which means I have to keep terminal open.  any suggestions?

I haven't tried it, but I have suggestions.

From the "ctrl-alt-neighborhood line":

DISPLAY=:0 firefox3 &

from Terminal:

nohup firefox3 &

Replace "firefox3" with whatever your binary is called.

I hope one of these works for you.

I cant remember what my firefox binary name is and I dont where know firefox is located on my XO. Its not in /home/olpc/firefox/firefox . I tried using the "find" command, still no luck.

When I typed firefox in the terminal it run fine, but I need to run it from ctrl-alt-neighborhood line. I do have a good reason for wanted to be able to do that. Will explain why later.


How do I find the directory where firefox is located  and the firefox binary name?

Please help.

Sorry for the late response.

When "firefox" starts firefox then the binary name is "firefox". Yes, it's that simple.

You can find it's location with "type firefox".

I just noticed, that the ctrl-alt-neighborhood thingy gives you a root shell. It might be a major security risk to start a web browser as root.

If you still want to risk it, you probably have to disable your X server's access control with "xhost +"

Then "DISPLAY=:0 /path/to/firefox &" should work fine.

Hope this helps.

[apater]

OK, got firefox 3 installed on my Xo ...

How much space does it take up on the internal flash, and how much ram does it take to run?

[jdebay]

Just installed firefox 3 not beta, made changes to dpi. All looks good.

In a terminal session to start Firefox 3 and second terminal session to check still free 6700 bytes is what I get. As to amount of flash space not much taken 2% used on my system.

Well off to do more testing. Note: I have update.1 708 installed along with firmware Q2D16.

[anna]

I tried out the newly released Firefox 3 on 656 and it's less than stable.

Initially, it takes over a minute to start up.  At first I thought I did something wrong and killed the process, but then gave it another try.  Subsequent startups are quicker, but it still take longer than FF2.

The deal killer for me is that it freezes after awhile.  Not just FF3, but my entire system.  I have to hit Ctrl+alt+del to restart Sugar, which takes at least a couple of minutes to execute.

I've heard a report of the same behavior under 703.  Anyone else experience this?

[Sieghard]

I'm going to try to install it, too. It would be nice if there was an easy/official way to add it to Sugar.

[GregYohn]

Hello!

I use Fire Fox 3 with my desktop, since my computer crashes alot, since it overheats. FF3 allows me to recover my lost web pages that MicroSoft Explorer loses forever!

[teapot]

As I mentioned before, I have installed Firefox 3 release on my XO running Ubuntu. It seems to be faster than Firefox prereleases that are included with Ubuntu, and no longer has an annoying image corruption bug (I have only seen it on XO with Firefox prereleases on pages with multiple backgrounds such as this forum).

[Sarah Elkins]

I had quite a time installing this on my non-Opera'd XO.  I tried yum install firefox first, but that was giving me version 2.x.  Then, I couldn't figure out where the Browse browser put the file when I downloaded it from http://www.mozilla.com/.  Stupid Browse activity.  I understand the idea of a simplified browser, but I still see no value in crippling the ability to *see where a link will take you* (by hovering) or to *specify or at least identify the download location*.

So, I ended up downloading Firefox 3 onto the XO with Opera, onto the SD card (/media/disk), removing the card (wish I'd unmounted it first; anyone know how to get Journal to recognize it again?  at least the Linux system (Terminal) still recognizes it), and putting the card in the other (no Opera) XO.  Untarring it directly from the card didn't work (file corrupted?), but when I did the download again and copied the tar.bz2 file into my home directory (/home/olpc) and untarred from THERE, it worked fine. 

And I second the recommendation to set  "layout.css.dpi" = 134 -- that lets me see a normal amount of the page at one time, and if I want easier-read text, zoom (CTL++) works well.

So far, Firefox 3 seems faster on the XO than Opera.  I love me some tabs!  Opera lets me tab, too, of course.  But FFX3 seems faster on photos, too, and is holding up better on having 20-something tabs open.

[Sarah Elkins]

Alas, I'm experiencing the same stability problems, though my XOs are still on 650.  Sugar UI boot is sometimes insufficient (doesn't seem to register); have to cycle power.

[Miiu]

Firefox 2 was running great on Sugar. Speed,text.photos.

Installed Xfce today opened Firefox, slow, pages are skewed and the pages are teeny tiny.

I went back to Sugar - all better. I can ctrl ++ and I don't lose formatting or speed.

Xfce was not too easy for me to get going - I would really like  to enjoy it now that I have it going.



I have zipped files of FFx on the Xfce desktop - have no idea how to open them.

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