Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2999 mails)

[Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi@xxxxxx>]

Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> 
>> Since the last suse build on my 32bit Box, ff could never survive 10
>> Minutes of surfing the web.
>>
>> I got so frustrated that I for one changed to opera and secondly deleted
>> all the suse firefox stuff and installed the new 2.0.0.3 release
>> directly from mozilla.com.
>>
>> What can I say, now after a full day of surfing the the web with
>> mozillas firefox and another full night of downloading a few GB of
>> downloads (the latter was just for testing, normally I do not use
>> firefox for such things), I am still using the very same incarnation of
>> firefox that I started yesterday!
>>
>> A definitive improvement and much more related to the linux reputation
>> of being rock solidly stable. ;-))
>>
>> Recommended to anyone having similar problems with firefox.
> 
> What I would recommend is to try a clean profile and a clean RPM
> installation. I'm pretty sure that this also works. I absolutely doubt
> that the unstable behaviour was caused by the SUSE package. There are
> only a few differences to the upstream Firefox (since otherwise it
> wouldn't be allowed at all to call the package Firefox).
> 
> Wolfgang
Wolfganag,

thanks much for your suggestions. Acutally this was, what I did numerous
times. I also   created a brand new user, called "firefox" :-)- just to
be on the safe side.
I do not blame the Suse Package, I think firefox is the culprit. Imho
version 2.x was released much to early and it was rather more focused on
bugreports and "run previous session" than on stability.

Funnily I had stability problems with FF on Linux in multiple computers
and multiple distros but never experienced the same with running FF on
windows.

I am using now the mozilla build with my stoneold original profile
(derived from my ff 1.0x times" and a lot of extensions on top of it and
it runs ok.

regards
Eberhard

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