GeckoTIP is an extension that provides Tablet PC Input Panel support in both Firefox and Thunderbird. This new version addresses the following known bugs in the previous version:
- The floating TIP icon sometimes stops appearing after Firefox has been open for a long time
- When FF/TB is open, the floating TIP icon sometimes appears unexpectedly in other programs where it shouldn’t
- TPCTIP occasionally causes Firefox to crash (rare, but reproducible)
- The current TPCTIP does not install properly on Firefox/Thunderbird 1.5 beta builds due to a change in the XPCOM.DLL file, and likely will continue to fail on the final 1.5 releases.
- When entering text into the URL bar, search bar, and other user interface elements in Firefox and Thunderbird using the on-screen keyboard mode of the floating TIP, the TIP often dissappears after each key is entered
- The TPCISC extension, while extremely useful, is also very prone to crashing Firefox
The current release of GeckoTIP provides the following:
- It is believed that it fixes all but the last two issues on the bug list above
- It switches the TIP to the “URL” context when the Firefox URL bar has the focus
- It provides an alternative “Go” button for Tablet users that acts as an onscreen ENTER key. The button is available via the toolbar pallette: “View > Toolbars > Customize…”
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