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Mozilla Firefox

Versions 000 through 009

Application Details:

Version: 000 to 009
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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Test Results

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Selected Test Results

What works

browsing sites etc.

What does not

Closing Firefox.

I have to click MANY times X, for it to close.

And sometimes it doesn't close at all (when there are many tabs etc.)

Then I have to go to System Monitor in Ubuntu 9.10 and force firfox.exe to
close.

See Bug 20389

 

Workarounds

What was not tested

add-ons/plug-ins etc.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

  • GPU:
  • Driver:

Additional Comments

See Bug 20389

selected in Test Results table below
Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?
RatingSubmitter
ShowUbuntu 20.04 "Focal" (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jun 16 20215.0.4Yes Yes NoPlatinumNeale Rudd 
ShowUbuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu)May 29 20194.9Yes Yes NoPlatinumAaron Franke 
ShowUbuntu 11.04 "Natty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Nov 21 20111.3.33Yes Yes NoPlatinumAndré H. 
ShowUbuntu 11.10 "Oneiric" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Oct 12 20111.3.30Yes Yes NoPlatinumGTRsdk 
ShowUbuntu 10.04 "Lucid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jun 23 20111.3.22Yes Yes NoPlatinumAndré H. 

Known Bugs

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

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HowTo / Notes

Windows Vista Mode

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.

Non-English Characters and Accented Letters
Wine 1.1.4 displays them all properly (from what I have viewed) without leaving a glyph code. Make sure you are running the most recent version of Wine before asking about/telling about broken characters.
Firefox and Window Management

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.

a tip!
If you run Firefox + another program that needs Wine it might be a bit slower.
Styletrick:
  • Change Winversion in winecfg to Win7 to enable the new Visual Styles of Firefox 4
  • Uncheck "Allow the window manager to decorate the windows" in winecfg for a good placing of the menu button
  • get a cool Personas

Comments

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Addon window tested?
by bcooksley on Monday October 19th 2009, 1:27
Trying to close addons window causes temporary Firefox lockup, and window is never closed.
RE: Addon window tested?
by Justin Soulia on Monday October 19th 2009, 6:14
Yeah, I experience the same thing with Wine 1.1.31. I'll make a bug report for it later.
Crashes on >1.1.16 versions
by Utach on Wednesday March 18th 2009, 13:09
Firefox crashes on some pages in versions 1.1.16 and 1.1.17.
In previous versions works correctly.
RE: Crashes on >1.1.16 versions
by André H. on Wednesday March 18th 2009, 13:41
which pages?
RE: Crashes on >1.1.16 versions
by Utach on Thursday March 19th 2009, 12:41
Usually crashs in long pages, using the scroll, for example es.wikipedia.org. But not always.
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
Fall on 1.1.16 of wine
by Utach on Monday March 2nd 2009, 9:40
In version 1.1.16 of wine Firefox quits (crash) sometimes when you browse.
But in versions prior to 1.1.16 works correctly.
No internet access
by Pierre R�veillon on Monday February 9th 2009, 7:11
Hello,

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.
RE: No internet access
by Justin Soulia on Monday February 9th 2009, 15:34
Description of the package from the Ubuntu repositories:

"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?
RE: No internet access
by Pierre R�veillon on Monday February 9th 2009, 16:09
Sorry, this wasn't enough detailed.
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...
RE: No internet access
by Justin Soulia on Tuesday February 10th 2009, 9:29
No, the fault is mine. I didn't think about it at first. In order for wine to run on a 64-bit OS 32-bit libraries that Wine would use normally have to be installed. Makes sense.
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