[dundee] What's better than FF3?

[Andrew Clayton]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:22:48 +0100, Dan Bolser wrote:

> 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.

Heh, actually that's exactly how I (and many others) use it at
work, home directories are NFS mounted.

That can cause problems because sqlite can get fubar'd more easily
over NFS.
 

Andrew