On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:07:08 +0100 Chris G cl@isbd.net allegedly wrote:
Has anyone here moved from Firefox 2.0.x to Firefox 3.0 yet? If so are there any big (or small) issues?
Yes - I moved to 3.0 (beta) reluctantly by default when I upgraded my desktop Ubuntu install to Hardy. I wasn't (and I'm still not) wildly enthusiastic about 3.0 - particularly the fact that it was still in beta at the time. But I guess that Canonical didn't want to ship FF2 with a LTS release of Ubuntu.
My main problem is that my favourite add-on (Mozex) isn't available for Firefox 3.0 and looks like it may never be. There is an alternative (ItsAllText) but it's not so flexible and doesn't allow one Mozex facility that I do use (the ability to launch a local program from an arbitrary URL).
Lots of my addons broke. My favourite (trashmail) has only just been released for 3.0 and bookmark duplicator and whois are still broken.
One simple question occurs to me, can Firefox 3.0 be configured to call a text mode program (e.g. mutt in my case) on mailto: links?
It would seem possible to add mutt as the client in Preferences -> applications -> mailto, but I can't get it to work.
Mick
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