I am now using 8.10 and do not have this issue. I think I may have just had an issue with plug-ins because I stripped everything away and was able to have firefox running for me; this was still on 8.04. I'm not sure which one as they would all install, but not run firefox thereafter. Once I upgraded to 8.10, firefox would run and accept all of the plug-ins. Everything seems to be running smoothly.
Here are the installed plug-ins: Adobe Reader 8.0 Default Plugin Demo Print Program for Unix/Linux DivX Browser Plug-in Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-in Compatible Java (TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_10-b33 Kaffeine Starter Plugin mplayerPlug-in 3.55 OpenOffice.Org Plug-in QuickTime Plug-in 7.4.5 RealPlayer 9 Shockwave Flash 10.0 r15 Windows Media Player Plug-in Add-ons that also installed and failed: Dictionary 2.1.4 DownThemAll 1.1.0 Firebug 1.3.0 Firecookie 0.7 FireFTP 1.0.3 NoScript 1.8.9.2 OpenBook 2.0.1.1 Speed Dial 0.7.2.10 Hope this helps troubleshoot the issue for anyone else. This is no longer an issue for me and I'm sorry for not closing the bug report. -- Firefox 3 Loading and Usage Delay https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284186 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
