Firefox:Firefox3FAQ

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Frequently Asked Questions about Firefox 3 on openSUSE

My Firefox always starts in offline mode

Firefox listens for the network status reported from NetworkManager. In certain cases that's probably not the complete truth. This behaviour can be changed by setting the preference toolkit.networkmanager.disable to false. (Please note that the name has changed from Firefox 2.)

Why is there no update to Firefox 3 for distributions older than 10.2 in the buildservice?

Firefox 3 needs at least Gtk+ 2.10 to work (and compile) correctly. There is currently no way to solve that.

Firefox is bugging me quite a lot when accessing SSL sites protected by a self signed certificate

Suggestion from the community is to set the following prefs: browser.ssl_override_behaviour = 2 and browser.xul.error_pages.expert_bad_cert = true

But I still want to use Firefox 2 instead of version 3

You should subscribe to the mozilla:legacy repository which provides the package firefox2. It's not possible to have both Firefox versions installed at the same time though.

Known issues

• Printing on openSUSE 10.2 crashes Firefox

  This is because of a bug in Gtk's CUPS printing module (Bug 374554). You can get an unofficial patched gtk2 package for openSUSE 10.2 from here

Another way how to get around is to unset CUPS_SERVER shell variable:

unset CUPS_SERVER ; /usr/bin/firefox

Using this method, you will be not able to print to CUPS printer directly. But you can print from forefox into file (either ps or pdf) and then using kpdf, you can print generated pdf file on CUPS printer.