Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, Swiftfox and Swiftweasel

2009-04-01 Thread Robert Flatters
I have started to notice that the windows Firefox version 3.0.7 crashes every now and then. The same can be said for the apple version as well, On Ubuntu 8.10 i don't get that and i notice last night that it loaded pictures faster than both the apple and windows cussons. On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, Swiftfox and Swiftweasel

2009-03-31 Thread David King
I too have had problems with Firefox. Mostly sites with Flash. I have tried various recent versions of Flash, and most Flash-heavy sites just cause Firefox to crash or else I get an error saying that Flash is not installed. I also use Flock which works perfectly with Flash sites, e.g. the new S

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, Swiftfox and Swiftweasel

2009-03-31 Thread thirstyh2o
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:52:23 +0100, Jai Harrison wrote: > I've been experiencing some issues with Firefox lately (freezing during > general use, lagging during Flash video playback, etc.). I'm using FF on 2 machines with Ubuntu 8.04. Yes, starting at the first time FF does it damn slow. Someti

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, Swiftfox and Swiftweasel

2009-03-31 Thread Rowan Berkeley
009 19:52:23 +0100 > From: Jai Harrison > Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, Swiftfox and Swiftweasel > To: British Ubuntu Talk > Message-ID: > <37eeeb790903311152o36ef84c0l640b95400b400...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hey e

[ubuntu-uk] Firefox, Swiftfox and Swiftweasel

2009-03-31 Thread Jai Harrison
Hey everyone, I've been experiencing some issues with Firefox lately (freezing during general use, lagging during Flash video playback, etc.). So I looked into it and it appears that the binary provided in Ubuntu for Firefox doesn't use some special compiler/compile method that is used on the Wind