-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 06:33:03 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jan 2012, Robert Munro wrote: > >>> I definitely recommend that you try Firefox 9.0.1 though. It's >>> much faster than the previous versions of Firefox, rather >>> noticeably so. > Robert, > > Is it more conservative of memory? > > I'll need to learn how to build and install 9.0.1 on a debian-based > system as I doubt that version's in a ubuntu repository.
It is reported to use less memory, yes. I don't know if Mozilla caught all the memory leaks, but Firefox frees memory more aggressively now: http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/12/mozilla-unleashes-faster-smaller-firefox-9/ and http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/9.0.1/releasenotes/ . It doesn't have separate versions for different Linux distributions, it seems, but the download at http:/www.firefox.com works under Ubuntu I'm told. I'd suggest that you can download the tar file to /usr/local then as root, cd /usr/local; untar -xvjf firefox-9.0.1.tar.bz2 . Good luck! Robert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk8KN08ACgkQ+qYMIUkNJCwilQCgikw7WpNECJXntzp/rdqdnuFl IMEAoJ4vPshX3ozq7g/gkCJw6KhC2GRd =e7Wa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
