Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: On 25 Sep 2010, at 03:17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ... I've heard good things about it, but I'm under the impression it is not free (as in beer). Is that true? I don't know but I can emerge -q icc There is

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 Sep 2010, at 03:17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ... I've heard good things about it, but I'm under the impression it is not free (as in beer). Is that true? I don't know but I can emerge -q icc There is other non-Free software you can install with Portage. Just yesterday I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson b...@thehenderson.comwrote: On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but Firefox in Linux has always been pretty bad in general for me.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Bill Longman
On 09/24/10 09:48, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson b...@thehenderson.com mailto:b...@thehenderson.com wrote: On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: I haven't had any

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.comwrote: On 09/24/10 09:48, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson b...@thehenderson.comwrote: On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Friday 24 September 2010 10:26:54 pm Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Ahh.. I've heard good things about it, but I'm under the impression it is not free (as in beer). Is that true? true. -- - Yohan Pereira.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Bill Longman
On 09/24/10 09:56, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com mailto:bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/24/10 09:48, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson b...@thehenderson.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Beau Henderson
On 09/24/10 08:11, a...@sourcegarden.de wrote: On 09/22/2010 12:23 AM, Beau Henderson wrote: On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but Firefox in Linux has always been pretty bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Stroller
On 24 Sep 2010, at 20:15, Bill Longman wrote: ... Uh, what are PGO and ICC?? I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on Ubuntu let alone Vista, which makes me take your suggestion about build parameters seriously. ICC is the Intel C compiler. Ahh..

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 24 Sep 2010, at 20:15, Bill Longman wrote: ...    Uh, what are PGO and ICC??    I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on    Ubuntu let alone Vista, which makes me take your suggestion

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/24/2010 06:16 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 24 Sep 2010, at 20:15, Bill Longman wrote: ... Uh, what are PGO and ICC?? I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on Ubuntu let alone

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: On 24 Sep 2010, at 20:15, Bill Longman wrote: ... Uh, what are PGO and ICC?? I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on Ubuntu let alone Vista, which makes me take your

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-23 Thread a...@sourcegarden.de
On 09/22/2010 12:23 AM, Beau Henderson wrote: On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but Firefox in Linux has always been pretty bad in general for me. Slow UI, unusable in NX

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but Firefox in Linux has always been pretty bad in general for me. Slow UI, unusable in NX (constant screen redraws; Thunderbird does the same thing), network stalling for MINUTES at a

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-21 Thread Beau Henderson
On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but Firefox in Linux has always been pretty bad in general for me. Slow UI, unusable in NX (constant screen redraws; Thunderbird does the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: Is it just me?  Or does Firefox get slower every release?  And less stable. I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but Firefox in Linux has always been pretty bad in general for me. Slow UI, unusable in NX

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-20 Thread Beau Henderson
On 09/19/10 20:02, András Csányi wrote: On 19 September 2010 10:09, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 00:28 on Sunday 19 September 2010, András Csányi did opine thusly: On 19 September 2010 00:14, Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com wrote: Is it just

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson b...@thehenderson.comwrote: I had this same problem and decided I had bad RAM. Before I could order any, I rebuild my system and it happens that I did so with an image that had GCC 4.3* rather than 4.4. Funny enough, firefox worked just fine. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-20 Thread Beau Henderson
On 09/21/10 12:41, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson b...@thehenderson.com mailto:b...@thehenderson.com wrote: I had this same problem and decided I had bad RAM. Before I could order any, I rebuild my system and it happens that I did so with an image

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-20 Thread András Csányi
On 21 September 2010 00:23, Beau Henderson b...@thehenderson.com wrote: On 09/19/10 20:02, András Csányi wrote: On 19 September 2010 10:09, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com  wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 00:28 on Sunday 19 September 2010, András Csányi did opine thusly: On 19

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:28 on Sunday 19 September 2010, András Csányi did opine thusly: On 19 September 2010 00:14, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: Is it just me? Or does Firefox get slower every release? And less stable. I got myself up to the latest, and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-19 Thread András Csányi
On 19 September 2010 10:09, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 00:28 on Sunday 19 September 2010, András Csányi did opine thusly: On 19 September 2010 00:14, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: Is it just me?  Or does Firefox get slower every

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:02 AM, András Csányi sayusi.a...@gmail.comwrote: On 19 September 2010 10:09, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 00:28 on Sunday 19 September 2010, András Csányi did opine thusly: On 19 September 2010 00:14, Kevin

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:32 on Sunday 19 September 2010, Kevin O'Gorman did opine thusly: Yeah, me too. I teach at a university and classes start tomorrow. I've had the fox not starting as someone else did, then on upgrade it was sort of working, then not. The last bug I submitted

[gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Is it just me? Or does Firefox get slower every release? And less stable. I got myself up to the latest, and I cannot install my 4 add-ons (xmarks, AdBlockPlus, Noscript, Stumble-upon) without it crashing. Seg fault sometimes. I've got ECC memory, and no reported problems, and it does not

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-18 Thread András Csányi
On 19 September 2010 00:14, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: Is it just me?  Or does Firefox get slower every release?  And less stable. I got myself up to the latest, and I cannot install my 4 add-ons (xmarks, AdBlockPlus, Noscript, Stumble-upon) without it crashing.  Seg fault

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-18 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 18 September 2010 15:14, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: Is it just me?  Or does Firefox get slower every release?  And less stable. Indeed. But FF4 is *much* faster. And much more stable. At least, that was my experience when I tried it out. I had to go back to 3.6 because some of

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-18 Thread Thomas Yao
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed. But FF4 is *much* faster. And much more stable. At least, that was my experience when I tried it out. I had to go back to 3.6 because some of the plugins that I need were not yet supported for FF4. At least

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-18 Thread yanglh
2010/9/19 Thomas Yao t.yao...@gmail.com On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed. But FF4 is *much* faster. And much more stable. At least, that was my experience when I tried it out. I had to go back to 3.6 because some of the plugins that I