[dundee] What's better than FF3?

Andrew Clayton andrew at digital-domain.net
Thu Sep 25 19:12:24 UTC 2008


On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:05:36 +0100, Dan Bolser wrote:

> A hole in the head?
> 
> Should I go back to FF2 or try something new?
> 
> The version in the 'CentOS Repo' (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686;
> en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071616 CentOS/3.0.1-1.el5.centos
> Firefox/3.0.1)  has crashed again ... at least this time it didn't
> take down Gnome... I'm getting sick to death of browser crashes
> (SessionManager is the only thing standing between me and Kwonkweror!)
> 
> Is it just me or is FF3 slower and less stable than FF2?

I find it OK under Fedora. Are you using adobe's flash plugin by
chance? That does cause problems. I run it through nspluginwrapper so
that it runs out of process and when it dies to doesn't take Firefox
with it.

Maybe Epiphany or Galeon will suit your needs. 

Andrew



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