On 08/30/2014 12:24 PM, jdebert wrote:
On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 21:16:37 -0500 Jim Sabatke <jsabatke@gmail.com> wrote:
On 08/29/2014 07:49 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 08/27/2014 11:51 AM, Jim Sabatke wrote:
Add-ins is a good bet. I'll disable and report back. It may take a while because of the nature of memory problems. One problem with add-ins is that often websites I need won't run without them.
I'm running 26 and haven't been able to find any newer packages to install.
Jim,
I would put my money on an ill-behaved add-on. I'm ultra picky about firefox/thunderbird -- and the latest (while the UI is a pain) has been very well behaved from a memory/performance standpoint.
MozillaFirefox-31.0-33.1.x86_64
I generally have it up for weeks at a time with 5-15 tabs going. The only thing you really have to watch for are sights that force continual reloads and js updates. Other than that, FF 31 gets a very good grade.
Thank you. I'm sure you are right about an add-on, though I only have a couple, like a password manager, and it's hard to imagine that taking up memory. I hate js and I would put money on that. As an old 'C', awk, yacc and lex programmer, the newer technologies are a bit of a mystery to me, though I understand them conceptually. I've designed and built quite a few little languages over my career, which was kind of my niche; solving problems with data structures and languages. That's the technology I come from and understand.
I had expressed concerns about using non-Suse-generated distros because Suse loves to put things in different places than other distros. I've used Suse since 3.x and over time have been burned by disparate lib's, so I have avoided them over time. Of course I do compile quite a few programs that I need, like gimp plug-ins that aren't available any other way when I have to.
The SuSE Way doesn't seem to affect how apps from mozilla run. But if you use SuSE provided addons just remember, symlinks are your friends.
So, any advice and guidance on installing a newer Firefox version would be appreciated. I'm sure I'll have to uninstall the existing stuff, but that's easy to do.
In case this is useful:
I install all mozilla in /usr/local/mozilla. Makes it easier to backup and reinstall if needed and helps preserve it all across system upgrades, especially if it's on a nonsystem partition, like /home. Under mozilla are firefox/, thunderbird/, seamonkey/, etc. Since I use multiple versions and languages, each version+language gets put in their own directory, i.e., firefox-32.0.en, firefox-22.0.ja, etc. under firefox/. Extensions are (mostly) common to all so they are put in a single directory under mozilla, symlinked from the various language/locale/versions. (Makes maintenance a bit easier.) Thus everything for mozilla is in one place, rather than scattered everywhere. It has problems, sure, but those can be worked around. And this arrangement is still less hassle to maintain. There are some caveats, such as globally installed addons cannot be upgraded normally: easiest workaround, mirror global addons in a profile, say, "SystemAddonManager", then upgrade there and copy over to the global directories and chown & chmod as needed. Symlinks don't seem to work for this, unfortunately.
If I'm confusing you, I suppose I could try something else. But I'm sure others have better ways.
jd
Thanks, that isn't confusing at all. Like I've said, I have install a lot of software over the many years I've used Suse. I am likely to install it under the /opt directory, as I feel comfortable putting self-installed software there and not mixing it into the /usr tree. Thank you and everyone for their patient help. Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org