I haven’t gotten the TIP to work with Firefox in ages on my Toshiba M400, nor on my Samsung Q1. I switch to RitePen. I run a lot of add-ons, but Gecko has never worked for me. If version 3 will have it natively, halleluya, but the few times I’ve seen the floating tip pop up, it’s been a pleasant surprise because then it works.

It’s one of the ways computing continues to remind me of my old cars from the ’60s and ’70s, where random things stop working, and there’s a different trick to keeping the rest of it going requiring a knowledge of carburation (including the failure of automatic chokes), the differential, starter motors, the electrical systems, etc., etc., none of which I’ve had to know in a decade. With computers, even with snipping tools, you have to know a smattering of html, a couple dozen file formats, which format conversion program may be called for, etc., etc. It all reminds me of having my foot on the clutch, putting my toe on the break, but having my heal tapping the gas pedal to keep it from dying while elbowing the window so it won’t drop into the door, double clutching as I go into first, and jiggling the volume pot on the radio because everything comes out sounding like scratchy records. Like booting up and logging out and back in to get the icons to appear in the start tray.

There’s nothing objective about declaring a program is no longer in beta, and the patches themselves sometimes require patches.

I won’t be following this bug on my Tablet until Firefox is far enough along to support the Google toolbar, but I did file the bug described at http://www.segal.org/java/TextFieldFocus/ about a Java-related problem with Firefox 3.

I hope they don’t release Firefox 3 widely until they fix things that worked OK in Firefox 2.

Votes on my bug (409209) would be appreciated too. I added a vote for 409148.

Here is how you can vote on Bug 409148 – Autosuggest in address bar closes floating TIP input panel for Tablet PC Input.

Go to Bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409148

login and click on “vote” in the left column where is says “Votes: 4 (show) (vote)”

then click the check box next to “Enter New Vote here” and click “Change My Votes”.

Help make Firefox tablet compliant.

Thanks,

Dave

Just to clarify, that was the latest build as of last week, not the new beta that was released this week.

Regarding Bug 409148, that also happens in FF2 using the GeckoTIP extension, running in Windows XP. I dodge it by sliding the TIP away from the autofill zone before I type.