[dundee] What's better than FF3?

[Dan Bolser]

2008/9/25 Andrew Clayton <andrew at digital-domain.net>:
> 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.

Good hint.


> Maybe Epiphany or Galeon will suit your needs.

Actually a good hint from a collegue - don't use an NFS hosted
profile! I'll let you know how that works out.

Dan.


> Andrew
>
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