On 2 February 2014 13:04, Anthony Harrington <untaintablean...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > On 02/02/14 12:25, Colin Law wrote: > > On 2 February 2014 12:10, J Fernyhough <j.fernyho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2 February 2014 11:55, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > HI > > -- > > I can't find anything on launchpad. Any suggestions anyone? > > -- > > Colin > > Which version of Firefox are you running? You might try the beta or aurora > channels; I've seen a fair few issues with FF26, for example, that I haven't > seen in 27a or 28a. > > I should have said, it is the standard version from the 13.10 repo. > 26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.10.2 > I might give the beta a go if I can work out how to install it. > > Having said that, I've occasionally had high CPU with Gmail. I wonder if it > sometimes gets stuck in an AJAX loop (or some other race condition). > > Possible. Though if it were a loop in javascript then I would expect > that FF should still be able to be closed down ok. > > Thanks > > Colin > > I'd recommend adding the Mozilla daily ppa and upgrading your installation > that way. It's usually updated everyday of the year, give or take the odd > week around holidays (for obvious reasons!) but i've yet to have problems > with it in all the years i've been using it. It really is a great resource. > > to add it, do: > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa > then > sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get remove firefox && sudo apt-get install > firefox-trunk
I will give that a go. Thanks Anthony. Colin > > you'll get the very latest version everytime you update, from now on. > (Currently 29 alpha) (Underlined part is optional if you want to take out > mainline firefox ) > > Any problems and you can always put firefox back. (I think you can have them > both installed at the same time, but i'd err on caution and only keep the > one you're going to use incase there's any profile clashing? Shouldn't be > because they're stored in separate folders, but your call, i'm sure you'll > be happy with the results of this.) > > -- > Launchpad translator and linux chemist ^_^ > https://launchpad.net/~untaintableangel > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
