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Re: [LUG] Firefox v 3

 

William Fidell wrote:
> Tom Potts wrote:
>> On Friday 27 March 2009 08:26, Neil Winchurst wrote:
>>> Recently I installed FF v3.0.7 (Kubuntu Hardy) and it seems to work
>>> well. The only problem is that it does crash out occasionally, 4 or 5
>>> times a month. This was very rare with version 2.
>>>
>>> Should I expect this with a newer version? Or is there something I could
>>> do to sort it out?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Neil Winchurst
>> One thing you could do is to start it so that any errors are captured in a 
>> file to send to Mozilla to help them fix it
>> or when its crashed 
>>
>> gdb mozilla core 
>> will give some info too.
>>
>>
>> Mine is stable - though Flash does kill it
>> The next version will hopefull include tracemonkey which will speed up JS a 
>> lot and should provice a bit more stability too. I WANT IT NOW !
>> Tom te tom te tom
>>
>>
> 
> Just on the theregister.co.uk today, the next version 3.0.8 should fix 
> two vulnerabilities.
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/26/new_firefox_exploit/

And released on 1st April? :)

I've actually found FF3 to be very stable whereas FF2 was a bit ropey
for me.  I guess it depends on what you're doing with it.

James

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