Using Firefox on Tablet PC
Firefox is a great browser but not very tablet friendly in its raw form. Tablet PC 2005 has a great Tablet Input Panel (TIP) that lets you enter data into most text-based GUI elements such as textboxes - heck, you can use it to compose email or write Word documents (yup, I bIogged this using the TIP). The input panel does handwriting recognition and then spits out the text as if you had typed it. It's quite effective. Unfortunately there is something about the way Firefox works that prevents the TIP from detecting when focus is moved to a text GUI element such as the address bar or the search box on Google.
The erratic TIP appearance and disappearance make Firefox cumbersome to use in slate mode on Tablet PC 2005. Fortunately there is an extension available for Firefox called tpctip that allows the input panel to track the cursor in Firefox. More info on tpctip and the XPI download are at http://tpctip.mozdev.org/.
NOTE: To get tpctip to work with Firefox 1.0, I had to tweak the XPI as described at http://www.tabletpcbuzz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17827&whichpage=4.