For Edgy Distro, This Firefox 2.0 is quite buggy... Isnt it?

[burek]

Edgy, This Firefox 2.0 is quite buggy... Isnt it?


2-5 min of surfing then crash. You have noticed sthg similar?

thx

[BWF89]

It does crash more (in general not just on Edgy or even Linux) than older versions of Firefox. But they included the session restore which goes as far as to record the post I'm typing on a forum when it crashes. So it kinda evens out. But hopefully the crashing is just doe to the rush to relese version 2.0 and it will get straightened out in the next couple versions.

[burek]

It does crash more (in general not just on Edgy or even Linux) than older versions of Firefox. But they included the session restore which goes as far as to record the post I'm typing on a forum when it crashes. So it kinda evens out. But hopefully the crashing is just doe to the rush to relese version 2.0 and it will get straightened out in the next couple versions.

So, if it is normal, for me, it looks like M$ Windows,
maybe they should have set up a blue screen seession restore...


I am using Opera now, and it does well his job.
THe 9. has lot of features more ! 8)

Thank you for your information !!

[TeraDyne]

So, if it is normal, for me, it looks like M$ Windows,
maybe they should have set up a blue screen seession restore...


I am using Opera now, and it does well his job.
THe 9. has lot of features more ! 8)

Thank you for your information !!

Yeah, I noticed all the crashing, and that FF2 tends to hog more resources than ever before. That's fine for me, though, as I use the SeaMonkey suite. Even the 1.1 beta is lighter and more stable than FF2.

BTW, how do you like Opera 9? I think it's great, but I don't like the interface all that much. Too many options for me.

[fuscia]

that was such a problem for me, i switched to epiphany for awhile. now, i'm using swiftfox and get no more than the 'normal' crashes.

[KiwiNZ]

Firefox 2 is a pain. For the first time in a long time I do not have a Mozilla version installed .

I have stopped using it as it kept crashing in both Nix and Windows.

[FyreBrand]

I've had fewer problems on Linux though it still crashes a bit. The Windows versions at work crash so often on the mid to low end machines that we had to revert to 1.5.xx. On Windows the XPCOM error is back where the gui front-end for FF closes but it still has a running processes(s).

It doesn't feel more resource heavy though. I would use Opera but I can't ever seem to configure Java and Flash properly on it. I can't use the school's Moodle site properly with it or Konquerer. I really love how both of those handle bookmarking.

[ssam]

for some people this might be caused by swap having been disabled by the edgy upgrade.

run

cat /proc/meminfo

and look for a line like

SwapTotal:      524276 kB

if it is zero, or not there at all then your swap is not enabled.

if this is the problem see http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=287096

[Luffield]

I have mixed experiences with FF2. At home, on Edgy, it crashes too often and I would go back to Dapper if I had the time to reinstall. On Windows 2000 it's less stabe than FF 1.5 but still usable. At work, on WinXP and a new computer, it works very well.

[mips]

Is it not a Edgy problem ?

I have swftfox 2.o installed on Dapper and have had zero issues with it.