Thursday, May 1, 2008

hardy upgrade notes

I upgraded to hardy a few days ago. So far, its been a pretty smooth transition.
A couple of points...

VIM crashed whenever I used the tab text expansion helper integrated with rails.vim (have I ever mentioned how much I love rails.vim integration!). Anyway, got the latest source for vim and recompiled and all is well on that front.

Firefox 3.0b5 - this is probably the biggest pita of the experience. I use Firefox as more of a developer tool these days then a regular browser. So, its all pimped up with my fav add-ons, extensions, etc. A few of which were not happy with Firefox 3.0b5. Here are a couple that come to mind being a problem:

  • Firebug - fortunately the great folks here have an alpha 1.2 version that seems to be doing the trick for me

  • Html Validator - I found posting somewhere (that now I can't seem to find again) that suggested libxul-dev would help. Which it did.