Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 25 Sep 2010, at 03:17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >>> ... > > I've heard good things about it, but I'm under the impression it is > not free (as in beer). Is that true? > >>> I don't know but I can emerge -q icc > >> > >> There is other no

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 Sep 2010, at 03:17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>> ... > I've heard good things about it, but I'm under the impression it is not > free (as in beer). Is that true? >>> I don't know but I can emerge -q icc >> >> There is other non-Free software you can install with Portage. >> >> Just

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 24 Sep 2010, at 20:15, Bill Longman wrote: > >>> ... > >> > Uh, what are PGO and ICC?? > > I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on > Ubuntu let alone Vista, which makes me take your suggestio

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/24/2010 06:16 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Stroller > wrote: >> >> On 24 Sep 2010, at 20:15, Bill Longman wrote: > ... >>Uh, what are PGO and ICC?? >> >>I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on >>Ubuntu l

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 24 Sep 2010, at 20:15, Bill Longman wrote: ... >>> >    Uh, what are PGO and ICC?? > >    I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on >    Ubuntu let alone Vista, which makes me take your suggestion abou

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Stroller
On 24 Sep 2010, at 20:15, Bill Longman wrote: >>> ... >> Uh, what are PGO and ICC?? I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on Ubuntu let alone Vista, which makes me take your suggestion about build parameters seriously. >>>ICC is the I

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Beau Henderson
On 09/24/10 08:11, a...@sourcegarden.de wrote: On 09/22/2010 12:23 AM, Beau Henderson wrote: On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: > >> I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but Firefox in Linux >> has always been pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Bill Longman
On 09/24/10 09:56, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Bill Longman > wrote: > > On 09/24/10 09:48, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson >> mailto:b...@thehenderson.com>> wrote: >> >> On 09

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Friday 24 September 2010 10:26:54 pm Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Ahh.. I've heard good things about it, but I'm under the impression it is > not free (as in beer). Is that true? true. -- - Yohan Pereira.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Bill Longman wrote: > On 09/24/10 09:48, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson wrote: > >> On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> >>> On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: >>> >>> I haven't had any cras

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Bill Longman
On 09/24/10 09:48, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson > wrote: > > On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: > > I haven't had any crashing or fai

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson wrote: > On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but Firefox in Linux >>> has always been pretty bad in general for me. Slow UI, unu

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-23 Thread a...@sourcegarden.de
On 09/22/2010 12:23 AM, Beau Henderson wrote: > On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: >> >>> I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but Firefox in Linux >>> has always been pretty bad in general for me. Slow UI, unusable in NX

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-21 Thread Beau Henderson
On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but Firefox in Linux has always been pretty bad in general for me. Slow UI, unusable in NX (constant screen redraws; Thunderbird does the same thing)

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: > I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but Firefox in Linux > has always been pretty bad in general for me. Slow UI, unusable in NX > (constant screen redraws; Thunderbird does the same thing), network > stalling for MINUTES at a

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-20 Thread András Csányi
On 21 September 2010 00:23, Beau Henderson wrote: > On 09/19/10 20:02, András Csányi wrote: >> >> On 19 September 2010 10:09, Alan McKinnon  wrote: >>> >>> Apparently, though unproven, at 00:28 on Sunday 19 September 2010, András >>> Csányi did opine thusly: >>> On 19 September 2010 00:14, Ke

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-20 Thread Beau Henderson
On 09/21/10 12:41, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson mailto:b...@thehenderson.com>> wrote: I had this same problem and decided I had bad RAM. Before I could order any, I rebuild my system and it happens that I did so with an image that had GCC 4.3* ra

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson wrote: > I had this same problem and decided I had bad RAM. Before I could order > any, I rebuild my system and it happens that I did so with an image that had > GCC 4.3* rather than 4.4. Funny enough, firefox worked just fine. I did some > searchin

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-20 Thread Beau Henderson
On 09/19/10 20:02, András Csányi wrote: On 19 September 2010 10:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 00:28 on Sunday 19 September 2010, András Csányi did opine thusly: On 19 September 2010 00:14, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Is it just me? Or does Firefox get slower every rele

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Is it just me?  Or does Firefox get slower every release?  And less stable. I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but Firefox in Linux has always been pretty bad in general for me. Slow UI, unusable in NX (constant screen redraws;

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:32 on Sunday 19 September 2010, Kevin O'Gorman did opine thusly: > Yeah, me too. I teach at a university and classes start tomorrow. I've had > the fox not starting as someone else did, then on upgrade it was sort of > working, then not. The last bug I submitt

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:02 AM, András Csányi wrote: > On 19 September 2010 10:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 00:28 on Sunday 19 September 2010, András > > Csányi did opine thusly: > > > >> On 19 September 2010 00:14, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> > Is it just me? Or

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-19 Thread András Csányi
On 19 September 2010 10:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 00:28 on Sunday 19 September 2010, András > Csányi did opine thusly: > >> On 19 September 2010 00:14, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> > Is it just me?  Or does Firefox get slower every release?  And less >> > stable. >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:28 on Sunday 19 September 2010, András Csányi did opine thusly: > On 19 September 2010 00:14, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > Is it just me? Or does Firefox get slower every release? And less > > stable. > > > > I got myself up to the latest, and I cannot install

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-18 Thread yanglh
2010/9/19 Thomas Yao > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Hilco Wijbenga > wrote: > > Indeed. But FF4 is *much* faster. And much more stable. At least, that > > was my experience when I tried it out. I had to go back to 3.6 because > > some of the plugins that I need were not yet supported for FF4

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-18 Thread Thomas Yao
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > Indeed. But FF4 is *much* faster. And much more stable. At least, that > was my experience when I tried it out. I had to go back to 3.6 because > some of the plugins that I need were not yet supported for FF4. At > least the later 3.6 releas

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-18 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 18 September 2010 15:14, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Is it just me?  Or does Firefox get slower every release?  And less stable. Indeed. But FF4 is *much* faster. And much more stable. At least, that was my experience when I tried it out. I had to go back to 3.6 because some of the plugins that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-18 Thread András Csányi
On 19 September 2010 00:14, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Is it just me?  Or does Firefox get slower every release?  And less stable. > > I got myself up to the latest, and I cannot install my 4 add-ons (xmarks, > AdBlockPlus, Noscript, Stumble-upon) without it crashing.  Seg fault > sometimes.  I've go

[gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Is it just me? Or does Firefox get slower every release? And less stable. I got myself up to the latest, and I cannot install my 4 add-ons (xmarks, AdBlockPlus, Noscript, Stumble-upon) without it crashing. Seg fault sometimes. I've got ECC memory, and no reported problems, and it does not help