OSNews > Thread > "Using this on Fedora 9 Beta" by Bitterman

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd Apr 2008 19:57 UTC, submitted by Brunis

The fifth beta of Firefox has been released. "Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 5 has been released for testing. The fifth beta of the next major Firefox version offers over 750 bug fixes over Beta 4, including improvements in user interface, location bar autocomplete, bookmark backup and restore, full page zoom and other new features based upon user feedback."

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Using this on Fedora 9 Beta

by Bitterman on Thu 3rd Apr 2008 20:16 UTC

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2005-07-06

I'm using this right now and firefox is beginning to annoy me. So many sites render poorly. even OS news for instances i got all this blank space on both sides of the screen. All OSnews content is in the center of the screen, why doesn't it stretch out and use all real estate? Other sites have many problems aswell.

I'm thinking of moving to Epiphany cause it does a better job plus the zoom seems to be better on my laptop for tiny fonts.

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RE: Using this on Fedora 9 Beta

by Kroc on Thu 3rd Apr 2008 20:19 in reply to "Using this on Fedora 9 Beta"

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2005-11-10

OSnews' CSS tells the site to be in the centre of the screen, it has nothing to do with Firefox 3.

You need to elaborate on "other sites" and the compatibility problems you're having, I've found Firefox 3 to be faster and better in every way.

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RE[2]: Using this on Fedora 9 Beta

by Bitterman on Thu 3rd Apr 2008 21:34 in reply to "RE: Using this on Fedora 9 Beta"

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2005-07-06

How do i get OSnews to render full screen?

also i'll give you an example of the rendering i mean. this is two screenshots from foxnews.com you can see in epiphany all the words are visible but on firefox the last sentences are cut off only giving half the discription. not only that but the thumbnail pics are very distorted under firefox
Epiphany 2.20
http://i29.tinypic.com/246302s.jpg

Firefox b5
http://i27.tinypic.com/nd0b4n.jpg

There are examples of many other sites around the net that have txt overlapping other text and things like that. I'm not using noscript or any other plugins to block scripts or popups. just default.

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