Re: [Linux-users] Pinch zooming in Firefox

2012-03-05 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi-ho, Works on my acer laptop, but not my old tosh. Also works in chrome on the new one. I assume it's a function of the touch pad supporting multi-touch as well as the app. I'm currently booted into windows 7 on the Acer and it works in IE, Chrome and Firefox, as well as thunderbird, so

[Linux-users] Is it just me or...

2012-03-05 Thread Phill Coxon
Is Firefox getting more bloated, slower, buggy and leaking memory everywhere? Maybe it's just the plugins I use but I'm getting really tired of it. Frequently my desktop is locking up completely with disk io so badly that the desktop and mouse starts locking up for 30-60 seconds at a time.

Re: [Linux-users] Is it just me or...

2012-03-05 Thread Phill Coxon
On 06/03/12 11:47, yuri wrote: I use Chrome (not Chromium) and it just works. Unless your religion/ideology forbids it, I would use Chrome rather than Chromium for the proprietary bits that make some sites work better (I won't mention the 'F' word). Hmmm. That explains a few things. As a

Re: [Linux-users] Is it just me or...

2012-03-05 Thread Phill Coxon
On 06/03/12 11:55, Adrian Mageanu wrote: Same here, but I think it's more about bad programming practices when building add-ons than the browser itself. When running without any add-ons Firefox is really speedy and stable. So you're getting the massive disk IO / everything locks up issue as

[Linux-users] certificate provider...

2012-03-05 Thread Steve Holdoway
It's coming up to that time of yeaqr again, and I need to get a new st of certificates. 2 years ago, I used StartCOM, but in the end, I found that their interface was cumbersome and tedious to use, and that the certs weren't all that useful due to CA issues. What do the panel recommend? It would

Re: [Linux-users] Is it just me or...

2012-03-05 Thread Hadley Rich
On 06/03/12 12:05, Phill Coxon wrote: As a diehard Firefox fan I'm so ignorant about chromium / chrome that I didn't know there was a difference. There isn't much difference. I wish I could use Chrome but things like the Web Developer Toolbar seem to be a nightmare on Chrome - all options

Re: [Linux-users] Is it just me or...

2012-03-05 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 11:38 +1300, Phill Coxon wrote: Is Firefox getting more bloated, slower, buggy and leaking memory everywhere? Maybe it's just the plugins I use but I'm getting really tired of it. Frequently my desktop is locking up completely with disk io so badly that the

Re: [Linux-users] Is it just me or...

2012-03-05 Thread Adrian Mageanu
On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 12:08 +1300, Phill Coxon wrote: On 06/03/12 11:55, Adrian Mageanu wrote: Same here, but I think it's more about bad programming practices when building add-ons than the browser itself. When running without any add-ons Firefox is really speedy and stable. So you're

Re: [Linux-users] Is it just me or...

2012-03-05 Thread Roger Searle
On 06/03/12 11:38, Phill Coxon wrote: Is Firefox getting more bloated, slower, buggy and leaking memory everywhere? Maybe it's just the plugins I use but I'm getting really tired of it. Frequently my desktop is locking up completely with disk io so badly that the desktop and mouse starts

Re: [Linux-users] Is it just me or...

2012-03-05 Thread Phill Coxon
On 06/03/12 13:03, Helmut Walle wrote: In my experience it's almost always the Flashplayer plugin causing the symptoms described by you (but obviously others could cause trouble, too - YMMV etc.). Firefox itself appears to be fine. (and I only have 1 GiB RAM) I think you've nailed it. It

Re: [Linux-users] Is it just me or...

2012-03-05 Thread Hadley Rich
On 06/03/12 12:09, Hadley Rich wrote: There isn't much difference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Differences_from_Google_Chrome -- Hadley Rich http://nice.net.nz ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz

Re: [Linux-users] Is anyone out there?

2012-03-05 Thread Rik Tindall
On 01/03/12 21:26, Chris Hellyar wrote: So.. Come on folks, what's cool? Tomorrow night, Andrew Sands will be telling whoever wants to know what has been cool at the Linux Conference Australia of 2011 and 2012: http://www.linux.org.au/LCA All welcome. March 7 Sydenham Freenix*

Re: [Linux-users] Is it just me or...

2012-03-05 Thread Robert Fisher
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nzwrote: On a slightly side note. Is LMDE really this cr@p?? I thought I should move on from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS but I'm bitterly regretting it. Started with squeeze, but it wouldn't even recognise my nvidia card as such, nor

Re: [Linux-users] Is it just me or...

2012-03-05 Thread Keith McGavin
On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:09:51 +1300, Phill Coxon wrote: I think you've nailed it. It almost always happens when I've left a tab open with a flash video player or some other sort of flash. Firefox will spend too much time saving to browser cache for the go back to previous pages. If you add

Re: [Linux-users] Is it just me or...

2012-03-05 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Tue 06 Mar 2012 14:09:51 NZDT +1300, Phill Coxon wrote: I think you've nailed it. It almost always happens when I've left a tab open with a flash video player or some other sort of flash. Grrr. Well it's your own fault for not installing the flashblock add-on. Together with