Re: [SLUG] firefox is seriously dragging

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Thu Jul 16 2009 - 16:04:23 EDT

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Seth wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 15:26 -0400, Eben King wrote:
>> 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,

> Actually,
> don't try that i think that was for RC2

's OK. I was still looking for the file that lists repositories.

...

Found it: /etc/apt/sources.list 

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