timbosity
April 27th, 2008, 12:10 PM
Upgraded my Xubuntu laptop baby to hardy yesterday and have only really begun to explore the changes today...
Of note:
- I had about 2Gb free space on /root. I now have 600Mb; Surely it cant have taken up an entire Gb of my space? What did it forget to remove?
- Firefox 3 Beta 5 is about as slow as IE explorer on solvent fumes. Takes a full minute to even show up after launch (from terminal or through menus) and then, changing pages, clicking links etc, just takes it ages... Very unhappy with this I must say. To try and diagnose: when I start firefox there is no cpu peak which is something im pretty sure happened previously; I only have 256 ram so maybe therein lies the problem? Although never had an issue previously...When it does finally load up and run its only uses about 8%CPU behind xorg, and 20% memory which is much less than before (in gutsy it was always around 30%memory and top of the CPU list). Oh yes and the icon is gone from the quicklaunch panel... The
/usr/share/pixmaps/firefox.png does not appear to be there...
- Apart from that all looks well. Wifi seems to be more efficient, as does memory management. Allother apps are running a little more sweetly although maybe a little slower at the start. Still unsure about what the changes actually are apart form seeming a little bit more heavy under foot with navigation/loading programs... Is Xubuntu looking more and more like Ubuntu with Xfce thrown in on top?
Anyone have any ideas how I can get firefox running sweetly again?
Of note:
- I had about 2Gb free space on /root. I now have 600Mb; Surely it cant have taken up an entire Gb of my space? What did it forget to remove?
- Firefox 3 Beta 5 is about as slow as IE explorer on solvent fumes. Takes a full minute to even show up after launch (from terminal or through menus) and then, changing pages, clicking links etc, just takes it ages... Very unhappy with this I must say. To try and diagnose: when I start firefox there is no cpu peak which is something im pretty sure happened previously; I only have 256 ram so maybe therein lies the problem? Although never had an issue previously...When it does finally load up and run its only uses about 8%CPU behind xorg, and 20% memory which is much less than before (in gutsy it was always around 30%memory and top of the CPU list). Oh yes and the icon is gone from the quicklaunch panel... The
/usr/share/pixmaps/firefox.png does not appear to be there...
- Apart from that all looks well. Wifi seems to be more efficient, as does memory management. Allother apps are running a little more sweetly although maybe a little slower at the start. Still unsure about what the changes actually are apart form seeming a little bit more heavy under foot with navigation/loading programs... Is Xubuntu looking more and more like Ubuntu with Xfce thrown in on top?
Anyone have any ideas how I can get firefox running sweetly again?