Firefox3 China Edition

[null]

Website:

http://g-fox.cn/

on my Vista, looks good.

http://i3.6.cn/cvbnm/4e/7f/1b/d002ba4e32454ce0e79c133ea08c4030.jpg

download link:

http://g-fox.cn/chinaedition/releases/zh-CN/FirefoxChinaEdition%202008.11.exe

Edited November 19, 2008 at 02:01 PM by roddy
removed layout breaking image

[flameproof]

Why they need a separate edition? How we know it's not a password collection tool or a targeted advertising tool?

For the REAL Chinese Firefox 3.04 you can go here:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

[null]

the 'real' Chinese version is not very popular here for its poor support for many Chinese sites.

[imron]

This is the real firefox, but branded to appeal to the Chinese market. See here (in Chinese) for more info. I haven't checked it myself, but its still using the underlying rendering engine and everything, so I can't see how it's going to be more compatible with any websites.

Also, as an aside, it's not firefox's poor support of websites that is the problem, but rather websites that have been poorly designed to only work with non-standard behaviour and/or bugs that only exist in IE.

[fanglu]

it's not firefox's poor support of websites that is the problem, but rather websites that have been poorly designed to only work with non-standard behaviour and/or bugs that only exist in IE.

God I hate that, and why is it that so many Chinese sites are like this? I hardly ever have to open up IE for english websites, but it seems every second chinese site will only work with IE.

[vampire]

Still prefer to the English version, the Chinese translation is really no good, just like the MS help files.Every time I read them, I kind of feel like I am reading some unknown foreign language. Sometimes I even have to stop and think for a while to figure out what does that sentence mean.

[BrandeX]

I'd suggests getting the "ie tab" addon for firefox (if you use windows), it should resolve most issues with poorly designed sites and firefox

[gougou]

I'd suggests getting the "ie tab" addon for firefox

I just got that and am very happy with it; great not to have to open new windows. I do have some problems with Firefox not closing correctly when using it with Xunlei, but not sure whether they stem from xunlei's end or from the extension's. Anyway, nothing the task manager couldn't take care of...

[flameproof]

I'd suggests getting the "ie tab" addon for firefox

I guess you mean User Agent Switcher, or?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

It does fool some websites, even some banking sites that want IE.

More info: http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/

[gougou]

That might work in some cases, but not where the page actually needs IE. For those cases, you'd probably still be better off with IE Tab.

[flameproof]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

This will not work with Linux (my strong presumption) as you really need a real IE.

[imron]

Hence the reason BrandeX said "if you use Windows"

[BrandeX]

Yea, as a primary Ubuntu user, I wish that it did work, unfortunately the ie engine is just not there

[self-taught-mba]

Well look what happened with the Tom/skype edition. That should give you pause.

[imron]

The difference is that Firefox is open source and I'm sure there are people looking at the source trees, checking to see if there's anything funny going in.

[roddy]

Yeah, wouldn't it be terrible if the Chinese government started monitoring our Internet traffic . .

While I don't feel any need to switch to this version, I can't see any reason beyond scaremongering to have security concerns. Surely anything you do over http in China is transparent anyway. And what's your alternative, switch to IE or Chrome? MS and Google are hardly less in bed with the government than Mozilla.