Re: [SLUG] firefox is seriously dragging

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Thu Jul 16 2009 - 15:26:16 EDT


On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Eben King wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Seth wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 14:46 -0400, Eben King wrote:
>>>
>>> Anyhow, since then, it's been exceedingly slow. I'm talking minutes to
>>> load one tab and I have probably a hundred tabs.
>
>> 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

Alas, it's not offered in Synaptic. Apparently nobody's ported it to my
distro (issue.net says "Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS"; 8.04 is "Hardy Heron") or the
repositories I use don't have it. Is there a repository that does, or do I
need to "use the source, Luke"?

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