OK, a week or so ago I reinstalled my operating system, zapping all of my Firefox configuration data. Once I did this, I tried installing Firefox 3.5 again. This time, everything worked without significant problem; I am able to use Firefox 3.5 without significant freeze-ups while loading background tabs.
For other people who are seeing these freeze-ups, try resetting your Firefox profile to see if the problem goes away.
I have released a minor update to Deadwood today.
Showing posts with label Firefox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Firefox. Show all posts
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Back to Firefox 3.0
I just updated the version of Firefox to Firefox 3.5 in one of my virtual machines.
It sucks.
The problem is this: Every time I load a page in a background tab, anytime Firefox needs to process Javascript in that page or whatever, Firefox freezes in the foreground tab; anything I type in (such as replying to an email) isn't typed in and I can't scroll the page or do anything else while Firefox processes the background tab.
Firefox 3.0 doesn't have this problem, so I'm going to use Firefox 3.0 until Firefox stops making security updates for Firefox 3.0; Firefox 3.0.11 can still be downloaded here ("en-US" is US English and "es-AR" is Spanish) and will be updated with security updates for about six more months. After that, well, hopefully the Mozilla foundation will solve their Firefox 3.5 issues or I will switch to another browser.
Firefox's big advantage is that it has a "always use the Verdana font" option, which no other modern browser has; I was able to hack this in to Opera in my Linux virtual machine by having the only available True Type font be Verdana.
It sucks.
The problem is this: Every time I load a page in a background tab, anytime Firefox needs to process Javascript in that page or whatever, Firefox freezes in the foreground tab; anything I type in (such as replying to an email) isn't typed in and I can't scroll the page or do anything else while Firefox processes the background tab.
Firefox 3.0 doesn't have this problem, so I'm going to use Firefox 3.0 until Firefox stops making security updates for Firefox 3.0; Firefox 3.0.11 can still be downloaded here ("en-US" is US English and "es-AR" is Spanish) and will be updated with security updates for about six more months. After that, well, hopefully the Mozilla foundation will solve their Firefox 3.5 issues or I will switch to another browser.
Firefox's big advantage is that it has a "always use the Verdana font" option, which no other modern browser has; I was able to hack this in to Opera in my Linux virtual machine by having the only available True Type font be Verdana.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
OK, Firefox 1.5 is being updated by RedHat
I'm pleased to see that RedHat has already backported security fixes to the 1.5 branch of FireFox. Of course, since the update is a RPM, to port this to DeLi, one needs to extract the patches from the RPM file and apply the patches to the 1.5.0.12 codebase.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Firefox 2.0.0.5 released
Now that the first post-1.5.0.12 release of Firefox is out, 2.0.0.5, we will see if RedHat/Novell/Ubuntu/whoever backport the various 2.0.0.5 security fixes to the 1.5 branch of Firefox, the way they mentioned doing last December.
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