F9 Alpha Observations

Horst H. von Brand vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Fri Feb 8 04:27:45 UTC 2008


Andrew Farris <lordmorgul at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mike Chambers wrote:

[...]

> > 3 - FF3 beta 2 that comes with it, seems to open with a home page of
> > www.s.com and I have already setup preferences to my own home page.  I
> > can't find the reference to www.s.com at all.  Although, if I click the
> > home button, it will go to my home page.

> Is that a site you manually entered ever?  Are you opening/recovering a
> session?

Happened to me too with the same URL, I thought it was due to a fatfingered
URL.

[...]

> > 5 - When trying to set system time and pick weather info, on system time
> > it asks to authenticate, so I put in root password and it just blinks at
> > me and asks again.  Never lets me pick to set time to another
> > computer/location or anything.

> This is policykit requesting authentication for
> /usr/libexec/clock-applet?  Do you realize that clicking the
> clock-applet->location edit->time settings opens the dialog to change
> system time, then clicking 'set system time' does not open a new
> dialog it only applies what is shown?  (change the values, then set
> system time)  The authentication should be happening only after you
> try to apply the settings (which the 'set system time' button does).

The Gnome clock applet is broken on i386, and has been for some time
now. Several others are busted too (Volume control, for one).
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