I also have a tablet PC with a Active Digitizer and even with FF 3.0.1 no TIP panel shows up with the address bar as the exception. Any new information of tips would be greatly appreciated.

I’m running Firefox 3 Beta 5 on an OQO with an active digitizer. I find that the TIP works in the toolbar address and find boxes although there seems to be something of a conflict between tapping to select text with spaces which is already in the boxes and getting the TIP icon to appear (essentially, when you double tap to select all the text, the TIP icon sometimes vanishes).

Boxes within the page are not always supported. Many of them require the use of the TIP’s keyboard with the ink entry “insert” button grayed out.

When I get a chance I’ll move to RC1 and see if the same thing happens.

Just as a side note. I have been running IE
exclusively on my Tablet. I installed the
Firefox beta and a tablet extension called gesso.
For me it restores all my tablets features in
firefox. It works in version 3 and I think it
is better than gecko tip.

Jeffrey, I haven’t added the GeckoTIP extension for two reasons. One, I’m testing the native functionality of FF and two, I’d have to turn off a FF extension compatibility to test. Just didn’t get around to it yet because I’m more interested in the native functions. I suspect (and hope!) that GeckoTIP will work or be updated to work in FF3.

Have you run with the Gesso TIP extension?

I see the same address bar behavior with an active digitizer (Toshiba M200). However, I do get a TIP when I tap the Google search field (when I have no text highlighted in the field).