On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Seth wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 14:46 -0400, Eben King wrote:
>> Firefox crashed yesterday. It's become fat with age, and crashes and leaks
>> too often for my taste. At least it restores its windows and tabs
>> (sometimes even to the same desktop) they were on pre-crash.
>>
>> Anyhow, since then, it's been exceedingly slow. I'm talking minutes to load
>> one tab and I have probably a hundred tabs. Every few minutes it throws up
>> the "script has stopped responding" dialog. That box doesn't show up on
>> XFCE's miniature desktop view, so I have to search for it if nothing's
>> happened for a while. It spends hours trying to come up, then crashes
>> partway through every time so far. I've brought down and up eth0, rebooted
>> the router (the router's a DNS server), changed the DNS server in
>> resolv.conf to the ISP ones, killed and relaunched FF, logged out of and
>> into X, and rebooted the computer(!) to no avail. I thought it was a lack
>> of free space either in {/var/log,/tmp} or in ~ but they have 6.9 GiB and
>> 123 MiB free respectively. I suspect it was an update that FF didn't like.
>> Is there a history of what was changed with apt-get? Is anyone else having
>> this problem? What do you think's causing it? More importantly, what can I
>> do about it?
> I hope your not still using FF3.0
3.0.11
> 3.5 is a Huge improvement.
Noted.
> $sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5
> you will have to remake the sym link for your icons, too
The only places an icon shows up are in the XFCE menu and the button bar
thingy (added manually). I'll have to see if those break. Haven't tried
updating FF. Might as well; it's unusable this way.
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