Re: firefox in mint 14 is a bad idea
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 3:56 am
I just shifted up - from FF 15 to FF 18
no issues at all . . .
- using Mint O/S
no issues at all . . .
- using Mint O/S
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do not think so 'pal'(thus between quotation marks)podagee wrote:dont know if anyone noticed but the latest firefox,18.0.1,in mint 14 is terrible.it causes a lot of freezing
I would also run internet explorer rather than FF ... but have you ever tried using opera ? its faster than both put together.podagee wrote:in my windows 8 I no longer run firefox or waterfox.firefox is way too slow,waterfox freezes my computer when off the charger,so,internet explorer 10 it is.its super fast and light on resources.
As grizzler found out, it's a regression and one that I experienced myself awhile back with Firefox 18.* and I can verify that it's fixed in Firefox 19 beta 5 (I believe it was fixed by beta 4 though). If you want to stick with Firefox you can always add the "Firefox-next" PPA (Firefox beta builds) which is currently at Firefox 19 beta 5 and it's fast and stable. I use it as my main browser.grizzler wrote:Firefox 18's slowness is a bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=832641
Should be fixed in 19.
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-next
https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/podagee wrote: add-ons opera
Works fine for me, no problems. Drop down list works as it always has. Not too sure what you mean by no buttons in the bookmarks toolbar. A long shot here but did you check to see if your bookmarks are missing?beachgardener wrote:firefox 19 in my LM 14.1 Cinnamon is broken, no drop down list for address bar (something i use a lot), and no buttons in bookmark toolbar.
i have had so much problem with 14, i think i'll try xfce next time, see if that works better, cinnamon leaves me with no icons most of the time
FF has never been very stable, and if you dont keep your flash/addons and such up to date can cause problems not to mention its gotten slower and slower with each release and resource consumption has gotten higher and higher. Install opera, you will notice a world of difference and have none of these problems. I used to use FF myself and had endless problems with it, they fix one thing in a new release and break another, not to mention with new release bunch of addons stop working and you end up waiting weeks for devs to update them.... I have NONE of these problems with opera, I cant explain the pleasure it is to use a browser that simply just works out the box without problems.ultraviolet wrote:My 64bit cinnamon version of firefox randomly crashes on 1080p youtube videos, Such a shame as its flawless everywhere else on the web.
Anyone know how i can permanently stop this?
I've had just the opposite experience with Firefox in both Linux distros and Windows 7 in that Firefox, with very few exceptions, has become more stable and faster with each new release. And keeping your plugins up to date applies to any browser you use, not just Firefox. And Flash can no longer be kept up to date in either Firefox or Opera as Adobe has discontinued building Flash for Linux. Linux users are stuck with version 11.2 for any browser (including Opera) with the single exception of Google Chrome. Adobe's latest "Pepper Flash" plugin (currently version 11.6) is built into Chrome itself. The problem with Flash crashing browsers can often lie with video hardware and video drivers, especially if it's AMD based.raymerjacque wrote:FF has never been very stable, and if you dont keep your flash/addons and such up to date can cause problems not to mention its gotten slower and slower with each release and resource consumption has gotten higher and higher. Install opera, you will notice a world of difference and have none of these problems. I used to use FF myself and had endless problems with it, they fix one thing in a new release and break another, not to mention with new release bunch of addons stop working and you end up waiting weeks for devs to update them.... I have NONE of these problems with opera, I cant explain the pleasure it is to use a browser that simply just works out the box without problems.ultraviolet wrote:My 64bit cinnamon version of firefox randomly crashes on 1080p youtube videos, Such a shame as its flawless everywhere else on the web.
Anyone know how i can permanently stop this?
...What he said. Those with ATI graphics (he sez "AMD", he means the new AMD/ATI gpu's, not AMD + NVIDIA) will, like me, have a not so great flash experience in FF.kmb42vt wrote:I've had just the opposite experience with Firefox in both Linux distros and Windows 7 in that Firefox, with very few exceptions, has become more stable and faster with each new release. And keeping your plugins up to date applies to any browser you use, not just Firefox. And Flash can no longer be kept up to date in either Firefox or Opera as Adobe has discontinued building Flash for Linux. Linux users are stuck with version 11.2 for any browser (including Opera) with the single exception of Google Chrome. Adobe's latest "Pepper Flash" plugin (currently version 11.6) is built into Chrome itself. The problem with Flash crashing browsers can often lie with video hardware and video drivers, especially if it's AMD based.raymerjacque wrote:FF has never been very stable, and if you dont keep your flash/addons and such up to date can cause problems not to mention its gotten slower and slower with each release and resource consumption has gotten higher and higher. Install opera, you will notice a world of difference and have none of these problems. I used to use FF myself and had endless problems with it, they fix one thing in a new release and break another, not to mention with new release bunch of addons stop working and you end up waiting weeks for devs to update them.... I have NONE of these problems with opera, I cant explain the pleasure it is to use a browser that simply just works out the box without problems.ultraviolet wrote:My 64bit cinnamon version of firefox randomly crashes on 1080p youtube videos, Such a shame as its flawless everywhere else on the web.
Anyone know how i can permanently stop this?
And new releases of Firefox breaking extensions no longer the case for nearly all popular extensions for at least the last 3 major releases as Mozilla has (finally) changed the way extensions are checked when Firefox is updated to a new version (that plus the way extensions are built now). Before, only an extension's min and max version number in the extension's "install.rdf" text file would be checked and if the version number range didn't include the new Firefox version then it would be considered not compatible even though it probably was--which was usually the case. Now, each new Firefox update checks the extension itself for compatibility issues rather than just the .rdf file. Guess what? Very few "broken" extensions now.
Either way, I'm not here to start another useless browser war. However, I haven't personally seen a crash while viewing 1080p YouTube videos in any version of Firefox for quite awhile now. At least not yet.
It is either great and stable and works without problems or it doesnt. Compared to the likes of Opera my experience has been that altho firefox isnt a bad browser, it is not even in the same league as Opera. Its like comparing windows and linux. with windows you must tweak the crap out of it before it works as you want it to, linux comes pre installed with most needed stuff, in the same way firefox must get tweaked, dozens of addons downloaded and configured before you get a pleasant browser experience. Opera works out the box."FF is great "unless...." , FF is great "as long as you don'...", FF is great "except for...."