Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

2008-05-02 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
peter wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 09:43 +0200, Chris Rowson wrote: > >> Although it would seem that some people are finding the opposite to be >> true to be fair! >> >> On 4/29/08, Jai Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I don't see what the problem is. Firefox 3 Beta 5 is more ef

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

2008-05-01 Thread Farran
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 13:36 +0100, Dianne Reuby wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 08:36 +0100, Jai Harrison wrote: > > I don't see what the problem is. Firefox 3 Beta 5 is more efficient > > and more stable than Firefox 2. > > > > The main problem for us is that (as someone else has reported) we ca

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

2008-04-30 Thread Dianne Reuby
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 08:36 +0100, Jai Harrison wrote: > I don't see what the problem is. Firefox 3 Beta 5 is more efficient > and more stable than Firefox 2. > The main problem for us is that (as someone else has reported) we can't access online banking - this doesn't look good when trying to p

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

2008-04-29 Thread Iain Lane
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 08:40:20PM +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: > | IMO it was a bad move to put a beta browser into an LTS release. But > | that's just my opinion ;-) > > I was surprised by this during the betas. I think that the only > explanation I found that made sense was th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

2008-04-29 Thread Michael G Fletcher
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 18:07 +0100, peter wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 09:43 +0200, Chris Rowson wrote: > > Although it would seem that some people are finding the opposite to be > > true to be fair! > > > > On 4/29/08, Jai Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't see what the problem is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

2008-04-29 Thread peter
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 09:43 +0200, Chris Rowson wrote: > Although it would seem that some people are finding the opposite to be > true to be fair! > > On 4/29/08, Jai Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't see what the problem is. Firefox 3 Beta 5 is more efficient > > and more stable tha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

2008-04-29 Thread Chris Rowson
Although it would seem that some people are finding the opposite to be true to be fair! On 4/29/08, Jai Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't see what the problem is. Firefox 3 Beta 5 is more efficient > and more stable than Firefox 2. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ub

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

2008-04-29 Thread Jai Harrison
I don't see what the problem is. Firefox 3 Beta 5 is more efficient and more stable than Firefox 2. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

2008-04-28 Thread Chris Rowson
> > | IMO it was a bad move to put a beta browser into an LTS release. But > | that's just my opinion ;-) > > I was surprised by this during the betas. I think that the only > explanation I found that made sense was that FF2 wouldn't be supported > by Mozilla for the lifetime of 8.04, thus it w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

2008-04-28 Thread Stephen O'Neill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Rowson wrote: | IMO it was a bad move to put a beta browser into an LTS release. But | that's just my opinion ;-) I was surprised by this during the betas. I think that the only explanation I found that made sense was that FF2 wouldn't be su

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

2008-04-28 Thread Stephen O'Neill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Rowson wrote: | I'm seeing mucho bad performance in the Firefox 3 Beta in both Ubuntu | Hardy and Windows XP. In Linux it seems to use a ridiculous amount of | CPU time when idle My firefox is using much less CPU and the desktop is usable again

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

2008-04-28 Thread Chris Rowson
> As I type this it is using 101% of the CPU (dual cores so top doesn't > > pick it up correctly) but it almost unusable. Performance was way better > > in the earlier releases. Now it brings everything to a halt. > > > Similar story here... it fluctuates but at the moment it's pretty much > maxin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

2008-04-28 Thread Stephen O'Neill
George McLachlan wrote: > As I type this it is using 101% of the CPU (dual cores so top doesn't > pick it up correctly) but it almost unusable. Performance was way better > in the earlier releases. Now it brings everything to a halt. Similar story here... it fluctuates but at the moment it's pr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

2008-04-28 Thread Gavin Ford
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 07:00:24PM +0100, Philip Newborough wrote: > I have been experiencing similar symptoms for the last week or so, > Firefox freezes for a few seconds before responding, seems to happen > more when a new page is rendered. Again, noticed on several systems, > all running various

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

2008-04-28 Thread Philip Newborough
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Thomas Ibbotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > George McLachlan wrote: > > I have had hardy running in some shape or form since, well I can't > > remember, but one of the early alpha's. Now it has been released all > > should be fine and good, but the performance o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

2008-04-28 Thread Paul Mellors
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 18:47 +0100, Thomas Ibbotson wrote: > George McLachlan wrote: > > I have had hardy running in some shape or form since, well I can't > > remember, but one of the early alpha's. Now it has been released all > > should be fine and good, but the performance of firefox has dropp

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

2008-04-28 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
George McLachlan wrote: > I have had hardy running in some shape or form since, well I can't > remember, but one of the early alpha's. Now it has been released all > should be fine and good, but the performance of firefox has dropped like > a stone. > > As I type this it is using 101% of the CPU

[ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

2008-04-28 Thread George McLachlan
I have had hardy running in some shape or form since, well I can't remember, but one of the early alpha's. Now it has been released all should be fine and good, but the performance of firefox has dropped like a stone. As I type this it is using 101% of the CPU (dual cores so top doesn't pick i