Firefox 3-5, Shiretoko or whatever

[jcphil]

Whenever I run Firefox 3-5--either as the Shiretoko in the repository or as the download from Mozilla--it's subject to lockups. The menus may stop working, even if the browser is still loading pages. Or type-ahead on URL's will stop working. This is erratic and I don't know what prompts it. Anyone else seeing this? Anyone know how to stop it?

I won't even say anything about getting an official Ubuntu/Kubuntu version of Firefox 3-5. How many months has it been now?

[dibl]

Re: Firefox 3-5, Shiretoko or whatever

I haven't seen the hesitation or lockups, but my hardware is pretty beefy.

Once you nuke the apt-xapian thing, maybe you could install and run htop while running your browser -- there must be some cause of congestion at the point where the browser hesitates.

[jcphil]

Re: Firefox 3-5, Shiretoko or whatever

This isn't related to CPU consumption. It doesn't give any sign of straining whatsoever. The menus just cease to work. Pages keep loading and I can type in a URL, but get no type-ahead. It doesn't happen with Firefox 3.0 or Chrome. It's a Firefox 3-5 thing.

[birkopf]

Re: Firefox 3-5, Shiretoko or whatever

After much of reading it comes up that (to put it in my normal word) 3.5 it still based partially on 3.1.
Very good tutorial is here:

http://www.ubuntusolutions.org/2009/...tu-jaunty.html

Shows that repos need to be updated because version which is there isn't right.
I hope that link helps - I didn't make it to 3.5 - i went back to 3.1

Peace of mind

[jcphil]

Re: Firefox 3-5, Shiretoko or whatever

Thanks, I went to the page you recommended and that fix seems to be working.