Re: [ubuntu-uk] Custom Unity Launchers

2014-02-02 Thread John Oliver
On 02/02/14 18:03, Anthony Harrington wrote: (Although it /is /easy to make a launcher for it on the old gnome-shell desktop via alacarte, never done this for unity!) I've made some menu options - the best way seems to put in a .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications, and then editing that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

2014-02-02 Thread Anthony Harrington
On 02/02/14 15:41, Colin Law wrote: > On 2 February 2014 13:55, Colin Law wrote: >> On 2 February 2014 13:04, Anthony Harrington >> wrote: >>> On 02/02/14 12:25, Colin Law wrote: >>> >>> On 2 February 2014 12:10, J Fernyhough wrote: >>> >>> On 2 February 2014 11:55, Colin Law wrote: >>> >>> HI

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with Linux Emporium website?

2014-02-02 Thread alan c
On 01/02/14 12:39, Andres wrote: > On 1 de febrero de 2014 12:22:00 GMT, Barry Drake > wrote: [...] >> >>I bought my most recent PC from Cougar Extreme. They have a guy called >> >>Patrick who knows Linux well, and the entire firm is very helpful. >>They >>sell laptops as well and are willing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

2014-02-02 Thread Colin Law
On 2 February 2014 13:55, Colin Law wrote: > On 2 February 2014 13:04, Anthony Harrington > wrote: >> On 02/02/14 12:25, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 2 February 2014 12:10, J Fernyhough wrote: >> >> On 2 February 2014 11:55, Colin Law wrote: >> >> HI >> >> -- >> >> I can't find anything on launchp

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

2014-02-02 Thread Colin Law
On 2 February 2014 13:04, Anthony Harrington wrote: > On 02/02/14 12:25, Colin Law wrote: > > On 2 February 2014 12:10, J Fernyhough wrote: > > On 2 February 2014 11:55, Colin Law wrote: > > HI > > -- > > I can't find anything on launchpad. Any suggestions anyone? > > -- > > Colin > > Which ver

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

2014-02-02 Thread Colin Law
On 2 February 2014 13:13, Simon Greenwood wrote: > > > On 2 February 2014 12:33, J Fernyhough wrote: >> >> On 2 February 2014 12:25, Colin Law wrote: >> > >> > I should have said, it is the standard version from the 13.10 repo. >> > 26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.10.2 >> > I might give the beta a go if

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

2014-02-02 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 2 February 2014 12:33, J Fernyhough wrote: > On 2 February 2014 12:25, Colin Law wrote: > > > > I should have said, it is the standard version from the 13.10 repo. > > 26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.10.2 > > I might give the beta a go if I can work out how to install it. > > > > The easiest way to t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

2014-02-02 Thread J Fernyhough
On 2 February 2014 13:04, Anthony Harrington wrote: > > I'd recommend adding the Mozilla daily ppa and upgrading your installation > that way. It's usually updated everyday of the year, give or take the odd > week around holidays (for obvious reasons!) but i've yet to have problems > with it in al

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

2014-02-02 Thread Anthony Harrington
On 02/02/14 12:25, Colin Law wrote: > On 2 February 2014 12:10, J Fernyhough wrote: >> On 2 February 2014 11:55, Colin Law wrote: >>> HI >> -- >>> I can't find anything on launchpad. Any suggestions anyone? >> -- >>> Colin >>> >> Which version of Firefox are you running? You might try the beta o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

2014-02-02 Thread J Fernyhough
On 2 February 2014 12:25, Colin Law wrote: > > I should have said, it is the standard version from the 13.10 repo. > 26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.10.2 > I might give the beta a go if I can work out how to install it. > The easiest way to test is to just download from mozilla.org, unarchive, and run:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

2014-02-02 Thread Colin Law
On 2 February 2014 12:10, J Fernyhough wrote: > > On 2 February 2014 11:55, Colin Law wrote: >> >> HI > > -- >> >> I can't find anything on launchpad. Any suggestions anyone? > > -- >> >> Colin >> > > Which version of Firefox are you running? You might try the beta or aurora > channels; I've see

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

2014-02-02 Thread J Fernyhough
On 2 February 2014 11:55, Colin Law wrote: > HI -- > I can't find anything on launchpad. Any suggestions anyone? > -- > Colin > > Which version of Firefox are you running? You might try the beta or aurora channels; I've seen a fair few issues with FF26, for example, that I haven't seen in

[ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

2014-02-02 Thread Colin Law
HI Using up to date 13.10 32 bit I occasionally see Firefox hogging my processor. The first I notice is that the fan on my laptop starts running at high speed. If I then look at the processor utilisation I see that FF is fully consuming one of the four cores. If I keep watching then over a minut