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 11:06 PM, David King <linux...@avoura.com> wrote: > 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/ > -- Robert Flatters, AMBSC
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