[gentoo-user] Re: Why does emerge want to downgrade firefox/xul-runner?

2009-08-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-08-25, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Grant Edwardsgrant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: Were firefox 3.5.2 and xulrunner 1.9.1.2 marked as stable last week and then changed back to unstable this week? I think so, yes. If you read the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does emerge want to downgrade firefox/xul-runner?

2009-08-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Grant Edwardsgrant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2009-08-25, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Grant Edwardsgrant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: Were firefox 3.5.2 and xulrunner 1.9.1.2 marked as stable last week

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does emerge want to downgrade firefox/xul-runner?

2009-08-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-08-25, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: I rarely use Firefox on linux but, on windows, 3.5 takes a longer time to load compared to 3.0 (and 3.0 took longer than 2.x). I'm sure add-ons and update checks are contributing mostly to that, but I remember the good old days

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does emerge want to downgrade firefox/xul-runner?

2009-08-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/26/2009 01:01 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: [...] I can't remember the reason, but it's a common complaint that Mozilla products are slower in general on Linux (I even saw an article claiming the windows version of FF running in WINE can outperform the native Linux version of FF on the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does emerge want to downgrade firefox/xul-runner?

2009-08-25 Thread Graham Murray
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com writes: I haven't really paid much attention to start-up times, but page loads in 3.5 feel a fair bit faster. I've also noticed that 3.5 doesn't pause repeatedly while I'm typing a URL like 3.0 used to. Page loads are faster, but page scrolling of some