Firefox and other gecko browsers

[dan]

On Saturday 29 March 2008 18:17:40 Collins Richey wrote:
> Just curious to know if any of you have been encountering problems
> with any of the gecko-based browsers lately?.
Haven't experienced any with iceweasel 2.0.0.13-1, firefox 3.0b4 or swiftfox 
3.0b5pre-2.

> Debian in their great wisdom decided not to agree with some of the
> requirements for distributing Firefox
These two links might present you with a more balanced view as to why Debian 
made the decisions that they did. This isn't the first time such a thing has 
gone on with Mozilla. :)

http://www.linux.com/feature/57675
http://times.debian.net/1022-iceweasel

> Last week, the problems worsened. Iceweasel began to segfault and/or
> hang at weird times, expescially after several days of running. Very
> likely the very well known memory leaks in Firefox, etc.
Have you checked https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ to see if anyone else has 
reported similar behavior?

> So, I've been experimenting with Swiftfox as well.
So am I. So far it seems pretty stable.

> Before any of you run off the rails, as did some folks when I posted
> this on the Sidux forum, I run no Firefox extensions, only a few
> plugins, and I always nuke the ~/.mozilla directory when switching
> browsers.
I recall the conversation from a few weeks ago about your browser crashes. 
Have you purged iceweasel and reinstalled it? Created a new user and tried 
browsing from that account? Spoken to the Sidux maintainer or filed a bug 
report? I'm only asking because I can't remember what you had said you had 
done previously to try to fix the problem.
 
> It appears that Mozilla is not putting much effort into fixing
> problems on the version 2 browser, now that they are nearing version 3
> release
IMHO, Mozilla always took an extremely long time to fix their bugs...even if 

> Just a little fodder to keep you busy on an otherwise boring weekend.
Boring? With a 5 year old son, a new 3 month old black lab puppy and a 
birthday party with about 30 5 years olds to go to tomorrow? :)


-- 
Scientia non habet inimicum nisp ignorantem
d.e.d.linux.lists at gmail.com