Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-29 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 06/29/2010 11:34 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Tuesday 29 June 2010 08:20 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > >> The newest official Firefox version is 3.5.10. >> Your version is not detected. Update now. >> >> > Its 3.6.4. > > It depends on the OS, on F12 it's 3.5.10. On F13 it's 3.6.4. Paolo -

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-29 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tuesday 29 June 2010 08:20 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > The newest official Firefox version is 3.5.10. > Your version is not detected. Update now. > Its 3.6.4. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscr

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-29 Thread Joel Rees
Oh, man, I think I just figured out where you're coming from. On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Robert Myers wrote: > [...] > I'm saying that because Flash is nothing but a source of problems, even on > Windows. Yesterday or the day before, after the periodic yum update on my iBook, Firefox laun

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-29 Thread Robert Myers
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 10:17 -0400, Robert Myers wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Joel Rees > > wrote: > > > > > What bias. I hate Windows. If you want to see how the web looks to > > someone other than a geek, you have to use Wi

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-29 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 10:17 -0400, Robert Myers wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Joel Rees > wrote: > > What bias. I hate Windows. If you want to see how the web looks to > someone other than a geek, you have to use Windows. I don't understand this - I use both Windows and Linux

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-29 Thread Robert Myers
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > > On Jun 29, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Robert Myers wrote: > > > But there is a Fedora issue here. Why would anyone sane try to use > > bleeding-edge Fedora for multi-media web surfing? > > Just curious, are you talking about rawhide or 64 bit? Pleas

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-28 Thread Joel Rees
On Jun 29, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Robert Myers wrote: > But there is a Fedora issue here. Why would anyone sane try to use > bleeding-edge Fedora for multi-media web surfing? Just curious, are you talking about rawhide or 64 bit? Please be a little more specific. Otherwise, you could hit someon

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-28 Thread Robert Myers
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Michal wrote: > as issues, but those issues don't seem to affect > > Chrome as much. I don't have Chrome suddenly go away while I'm perusing > > some website as often happens with Firefox. But even when I'm not > > visiting sites that use flash FF still consumes

RE: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-28 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 13:12 -0700, Tim Van Dyne wrote: > I'd also point out that with 50-60 tabs open at any given time I've > simply not experienced the issues you're having with it personally. I don't know how people manage that. Quite apart from being able to pick the one that you want, I find

RE: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-28 Thread Tim Van Dyne
> > >>> It's not "my" Firefox that has problems, it's Firefox that has issues. >>> It doesn't render pages correctly, it crashes often, particularly on >>> pages that have flash, and it consumes huge amounts of memory and cpu. >>> >> The "particularly on pages that have flash" bit should

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-28 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 06/28/2010 10:00 AM, Michal wrote: > as issues, but those issues don't seem to affect > >> Chrome as much. I don't have Chrome suddenly go away while I'm perusing >> some website as often happens with Firefox. But even when I'm not >> visiting sites that use flash FF still consumes a lot o

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-28 Thread Michal
as issues, but those issues don't seem to affect > Chrome as much. I don't have Chrome suddenly go away while I'm perusing > some website as often happens with Firefox. But even when I'm not > visiting sites that use flash FF still consumes a lot of memory. At > least once a day I have to stop an

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-28 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 06/28/2010 09:34 AM, Chris Tyler wrote: > On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 09:20 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > >> It's not "my" Firefox that has problems, it's Firefox that has issues. >> It doesn't render pages correctly, it crashes often, particularly on >> pages that have flash, and it consumes h

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-28 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 09:20 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > It's not "my" Firefox that has problems, it's Firefox that has issues. > It doesn't render pages correctly, it crashes often, particularly on > pages that have flash, and it consumes huge amounts of memory and cpu. The "particularly on pa

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-28 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 06/28/2010 07:30 AM, Tim Van Dyne wrote: >> It seems firefox gets worse every release. >> Ya ever stop to wonder if it's simply the package on your own system? Because I just rolled out the latest Firefox to 226 Fedora systems over the weekend and they all work like a charm. I do know that F

RE: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-28 Thread Tim Van Dyne
>> It seems firefox gets worse every release. >> Ya ever stop to wonder if it's simply the package on your own system? Because I just rolled out the latest Firefox to 226 Fedora systems over the weekend and they all work like a charm. I do know that Firefox *sometimes* jacks up royally if you u

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-26 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 06/26/2010 09:24 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 08:02 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > >> I logged into my laptop this AM and discovered that during the night >> firefox had crashed. I restarted it and now it wont display any >> sites. Every tab that is supposed to au

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 08:02 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > I logged into my laptop this AM and discovered that during the night > firefox had crashed. I restarted it and now it wont display any > sites. Every tab that is supposed to auto start is blank, even though > it remembers the site address