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 Street View on Google Maps.
I have not heard of Swiftweasel, but I have heard of Iceweasel. Is it worth trying one of those to replace Firefox? I like Firefox, but not its lack of ability to use Flash properly in Linux. David King Jai Harrison wrote: > 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 Windows binaries. Next I found Swiftfox but because it is > proprietary software I continued to search the web until I came across > Swiftweasel (which is AFAIK the same thing but without the Firefox > branding). > > Unfortunately the latest *.deb provided is for version 3.0.3 (there > have been numerous security patches since then) and the tar.gz along > with instructions for 3.0.8 does not appear to work on Ubuntu (I've > tried it). > > So I've been using Swiftweasel 3.0.3 lately and didn't notice much > difference which led me to believe that my Firefox profile might have > been damaged by an extension or simply have gotten crowded over the > years. Thus I created a new profile but when trying to install Google > Gears in Swiftweasel it wouldn't acknowledge installation on any Gears > enabled websites. So I copied my profile over to Firefox and got Gears > to work in that now leaving me running a newish profile under Firefox > with a few questions. > > 1) How much better will the performance be from Swiftweasel? Is it > worth migrating this profile back to the browser with the > understanding that Gears will probably work now it's been installed? > As such should I spend further time trying to get the Firefox 3.0.8 > tar.gz to work in Ubuntu or just settle for 3.0.3 knowing there is > exposed security flaws in it? > > 2) How come Firefox is so slow on GNU/Linux anyway? I've been looking > at threads on the Ubuntu forums where people go as far as to say that > Firefox is as much as twice as fast on Windows XP. Surely someone > inside Canonical will compile Firefox using the same compiling > technique as used with Windows if that is what's causing the problem. > Otherwise how come that a FOSS browser is slower on the most open > platform OS when the majority of its users on said platform are > developers? > > I have an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU (2MB Cache) T5750 @ 2.00GHz along > with 2GB of RAM (over half of which isn't being used). This doesn't > seem to be a question of insufficient hardware to me. > > I await your replies, > > Jai "Venko" > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
