Re: [SLUG] Fire Fox 1.5

From: Mario Lombardo (mario@alienscience.com)
Date: Fri Dec 02 2005 - 10:37:01 EST


On Wednesday 30 November 2005 20:51, Kwan Lowe wrote:
> > Kwan Lowe wrote:
> >
> > I tried out the alpha version a couple of months ago. Although I found
> > the application to be quite buggy, its operation was smooth and
> > elegant. I recall it being faster than the stable verstion, but not
> > practically useable in the state it was in. Is it better now?
>
> I've been browsing somewhat intensely for the past hour. Java, flash, and
> Realplayer plugins are installed and work correctly. I've also added an
> extension that purports to speed up Firefox by pre-caching links on a page.
> It works very well and the browsing experience is definitely improved. So
> far no crashes.
>
> In 1.0.7 I was getting a crash once every couple days or so. I.e., I had
> one session open for a couple days and it would crash in the same way... I
> would click on a page link expecting it to open in a new tab. Instead, it
> would open in a menuless window. If I closed that window the entire
> application would exit without prompting. It did not bring up the crash
> dialog either. This has so far not happened, but it's been a couple hours
> of uptime.

I'm running with 512MB of RAM. I didn't realize that may not be enough.
That's good to know though. I'll need to check it out. I'm running 1.0.7 as
well, and I get the same crashing.

/mario
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