Firefox 3 Beta 1

[withnail]

I installed the new Beta version of Firefox yesterday and thought it would be worth mentioning here that not only have I not noticed any bugs it also seems to handle encoding much better. The standard size for Thai fonts seems to be larger and therefore readable where before I often had to increase the font size. It also seems to be doing a better job at correctly choosing the encoding for a particular site.

Rikker's site for example was always very difficult to read using Firefox but is now displayed perfectly.

[DavidHouston]

I installed the new Beta version of Firefox yesterday and thought it would be worth mentioning here that not only have I not noticed any bugs it also seems to handle encoding much better. The standard size for Thai fonts seems to be larger and therefore readable where before I often had to increase the font size. It also seems to be doing a better job at correctly choosing the encoding for a particular site.

Rikker's site for example was always very difficult to read using Firefox but is now displayed perfectly.

Withnail,

I just downloaded Firefox 2, the last version. I just configured it to personalize. ภาษไทย is now much easier to type than in Explorer 7. Changing langauges within the Explorer environment was a two-step process. Here one is sufficient and the on-screen keyboard immediately reflects the browser language. I also can not access the SEAlang Library more easily with the Firefox browser, just as the site said it would.

Question: where does one find the beta version of Firefox? Thanks, Withnail, for your assistance.

[Tywais]

Question: where does one find the beta version of Firefox? Thanks, Withnail, for your assistance.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

One caveat though and that is if you use extensions, they may no longer work. None of my important ones work under it, but then it is Beta and as soon as the stable release is out the plugin developers will release the updates.

[withnail]

Two of my most important add-ons already work with this version and as yet I haven't noticed any bugs.

[DavidHouston]

Two of my most important add-ons already work with this version and as yet I haven't noticed any bugs.

What "add-ons" might be useful to us?

[withnail]

If you mean Thai related add-ons I can't think of any that still work although you can add Thai Wikipedia to your list of search engines.

[sgtpeppers]

The sealang extension for firefox beta 3 is working fine on my PC.

One thing I would like on firefox 3 is to be able to double click on a thai word and only the word is selected instead of the whole sentence. IE does this but not in firefox as far as I know.

[freitag1]

I once read a discussion about the problem of Thai fonts and that they are in general displayed so small. An extension to adjust fonts by language would be so awesome. Tahoma 16px for Thai fonts!

[mike_l]

I once read a discussion about the problem of Thai fonts and that they are in general displayed so small. An extension to adjust fonts by language would be so awesome. Tahoma 16px for Thai fonts!

I wrote one which does exactly that for Thai fonts, have a look at http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?sh...t&p=1177379 for information about it. You might need to disable extension compatibility checking to get it to work with FF3 though.