Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-30 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tuesday 29 June 2010 08:20 PM, Joel Rees wrote: The newest official Firefox version is 3.5.10. Your version is not detected. Update now. Its 3.6.4. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-30 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 06/29/2010 11:34 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2010 08:20 PM, Joel Rees wrote: The newest official Firefox version is 3.5.10. Your version is not detected. Update now. Its 3.6.4. It depends on the OS, on F12 it's 3.5.10. On F13 it's 3.6.4. Paolo -- users

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-29 Thread Robert Myers
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 29, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Robert Myers wrote: But there is a Fedora issue here. Why would anyone sane try to use bleeding-edge Fedora for multi-media web surfing? Just curious, are you talking about rawhide or 64

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-29 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 10:17 -0400, Robert Myers wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: What bias. I hate Windows. If you want to see how the web looks to someone other than a geek, you have to use Windows. I don't understand this - I use both

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-29 Thread Robert Myers
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.comwrote: On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 10:17 -0400, Robert Myers wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: What bias. I hate Windows. If you want to see how the web looks to someone other

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-29 Thread Joel Rees
Oh, man, I think I just figured out where you're coming from. On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Robert Myers rbmyers...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I'm saying that because Flash is nothing but a source of problems, even on Windows. Yesterday or the day before, after the periodic yum update on my

RE: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-28 Thread Tim Van Dyne
It seems firefox gets worse every release. Ya ever stop to wonder if it's simply the package on your own system? Because I just rolled out the latest Firefox to 226 Fedora systems over the weekend and they all work like a charm. I do know that Firefox *sometimes* jacks up royally if you

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-28 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 06/28/2010 07:30 AM, Tim Van Dyne wrote: It seems firefox gets worse every release. Ya ever stop to wonder if it's simply the package on your own system? Because I just rolled out the latest Firefox to 226 Fedora systems over the weekend and they all work like a charm. I do know that

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-28 Thread Chris Tyler
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 09:20 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: It's not my Firefox that has problems, it's Firefox that has issues. It doesn't render pages correctly, it crashes often, particularly on pages that have flash, and it consumes huge amounts of memory and cpu. The particularly on pages

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-28 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 06/28/2010 09:34 AM, Chris Tyler wrote: On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 09:20 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: It's not my Firefox that has problems, it's Firefox that has issues. It doesn't render pages correctly, it crashes often, particularly on pages that have flash, and it consumes huge

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-28 Thread Michal
as issues, but those issues don't seem to affect Chrome as much. I don't have Chrome suddenly go away while I'm perusing some website as often happens with Firefox. But even when I'm not visiting sites that use flash FF still consumes a lot of memory. At least once a day I have to stop and

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-28 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 06/28/2010 10:00 AM, Michal wrote: as issues, but those issues don't seem to affect Chrome as much. I don't have Chrome suddenly go away while I'm perusing some website as often happens with Firefox. But even when I'm not visiting sites that use flash FF still consumes a lot of

RE: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-28 Thread Tim Van Dyne
It's not my Firefox that has problems, it's Firefox that has issues. It doesn't render pages correctly, it crashes often, particularly on pages that have flash, and it consumes huge amounts of memory and cpu. The particularly on pages that have flash bit should give you a good

RE: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-28 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 13:12 -0700, Tim Van Dyne wrote: I'd also point out that with 50-60 tabs open at any given time I've simply not experienced the issues you're having with it personally. I don't know how people manage that. Quite apart from being able to pick the one that you want, I find

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-28 Thread Robert Myers
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Michal mic...@ionic.co.uk wrote: as issues, but those issues don't seem to affect Chrome as much. I don't have Chrome suddenly go away while I'm perusing some website as often happens with Firefox. But even when I'm not visiting sites that use flash FF

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-28 Thread Joel Rees
On Jun 29, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Robert Myers wrote: But there is a Fedora issue here. Why would anyone sane try to use bleeding-edge Fedora for multi-media web surfing? Just curious, are you talking about rawhide or 64 bit? Please be a little more specific. Otherwise, you could hit

What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-26 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I logged into my laptop this AM and discovered that during the night firefox had crashed. I restarted it and now it wont display any sites. Every tab that is supposed to auto start is blank, even though it remembers the site address it wont load content no matter how many times I reload the

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 08:02 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: I logged into my laptop this AM and discovered that during the night firefox had crashed. I restarted it and now it wont display any sites. Every tab that is supposed to auto start is blank, even though it remembers the site address it

Re: What the %$%@ is up with firefox

2010-06-26 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 06/26/2010 09:24 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 08:02 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: I logged into my laptop this AM and discovered that during the night firefox had crashed. I restarted it and now it wont display any sites. Every tab that is supposed to auto