Versions 00 through 09
Application Details:
| Version: | 00 to 09 |
| License: | Open Source |
| URL: | http://www.mozilla.com/firefox... |
| Votes: | Marked as obsolete |
| Latest Rating: | Platinum |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 5.0.4 |
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What works
Installing, theming, utilizing most plugins (flash included), downloading, secure sites, and Windows Vista mode to get the Vista theme. Firefox also responded and performs well with a msstyles theme installed, which in my case an aero theme to match closer to KDE 4.
Text editors work too...I am submitting this report with Windows Firefox 3 as I type.
EDIT: Java works! I ran Runescape on minimum detail. High detail won't work for some reason (it uses the video card, and it uses OpenGL).
What does not
Occassionally one might try to navigate a webpage that will result in a crash, for no particular reason I could easily point out, but it's not as bad as it was before the issues with Firefox 3 were fixed (thank you development team :D).
The Adobe Flash 9 plugin works, but the Shockwave 11 plugin does not. I only tested one director application though (Shockwave runs director apps fyi) so I'll try some more.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Some toolbars and other various plugins across the internet. Chances are most of the work.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Flash works as well as it did on Wine 0.9.59. I noticed some people, that tested chrome, say that Flash was broken; had become laggy, but that was not the case in Firefox.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jun 16 2021 | 5.0.4 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Neale Rudd | |
| Show | Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | May 29 2019 | 4.9 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Aaron Franke | |
| Show | Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Nov 21 2011 | 1.3.33 | Yes | Yes | Platinum | André H. | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Oct 12 2011 | 1.3.30 | Yes | Yes | Platinum | GTRsdk | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jun 23 2011 | 1.3.22 | Yes | Yes | Platinum | André H. |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 4045 | Wine is not reading the DPI setting from X - and is defaulting it to a dumb value | NEW | View | |
| 8195 | Detached menus in Microsoft Office 2003/Firefox3/builtin notepad.exe | NEW | View | |
| 14771 | Firefox/Thunderbird complains it is not the default browser on every startup ('HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Classes' should be merged into 'HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT') | NEW | View | |
| 19089 | Mozilla Firefox doesn't detect IE as installed? Doesn't attempt to import settings from IE | NEW | View | |
| 23134 | iexplore does not correctly detect proxy details | NEW | View | |
| 26304 | Rayman 2 Demo system menu item doesn't work | NEW | View |
After a little more testing, Firefox 3 seemed to show that it will run equally as stable in Windows Vista mode as it will in Windows 2000 mode. If you want the effects that comes from the Vista version of Firefox 3 (button colors change, GUI changes slightly), then put it in Vista mode.
If you are using Compiz-Fusion on your linux installation and wish to use Firefox, you need to disable it or Firefox will refuse to minimize or allow other windows to be on top of it without manually setting Firefox to sit behind all windows. It doesn't always seem to work, but the problem seems less frequent this way.
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by bcooksley on Monday October 19th 2009, 1:27
by Justin Soulia on Monday October 19th 2009, 6:14
by Utach on Wednesday March 18th 2009, 13:09
In previous versions works correctly.
by André H. on Wednesday March 18th 2009, 13:41
by Utach on Thursday March 19th 2009, 12:41
That did not happen in versions prior to 1.1.16. I must say that use a uxtheme in wine. Please sorry for my English
by Utach on Monday March 2nd 2009, 9:40
But in versions prior to 1.1.16 works correctly.
by Pierre Réveillon on Monday February 9th 2009, 7:11
This may be useful for some people...
I installed Firefox, worked great but without any network access.
I had to install lib32nss-mdns package (I'm on Debian 64 bit) to make it work.
by Justin Soulia on Monday February 9th 2009, 15:34
"nss-mdns is a plugin for the GNU Name Service Switch (NSS) functionality of the GNU C Library (glibc) providing host name resolution via Multicast DNS (using Zeroconf, aka Apple Bonjour / Apple Rendezvous ), effectively allowing name resolution by common Unix/Linux programs in the ad-hoc mDNS domain .local."
I believe that would be necessary in order to get internet access in normal situations but I could be wrong. Perhaps you could give your comp specs or maybe tell how your network is setup to give people a general idea of when they'd want to check that?
by Pierre Réveillon on Monday February 9th 2009, 16:09
I'm on Debian 64 bits, using Lamaresh repository for Wine, but the 32 bits nss-mdns lib was necessary to make network working on Wine.
Perhaps it's a well-known thing so you can delete this comment...
by Justin Soulia on Tuesday February 10th 2009, 9:29