Posted on 11/11/2007 8:57:41 PM PST by fallingwater
Only a couple of years ago, Firefox was the little browser that could an open-source program created by thousands of contributors around the world without the benefit of a giant company like Microsoft to finance it.
Since then, Firefox, which has prospered under the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation, has grown to be the largest rival to Microsofts Internet Explorer, with 15 to 20 percent of the browser market worldwide and higher percentages in Europe and among technology devotees. It is the most popular alternative browser since Netscape, with about three times as many users as Apples Safari.
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Click Tools/Options/Main and there is a group of download settings where you can specify a standard download directory or choose to be asked for the location each time.
tools->options, set downloads prefferences.
I remember when I first discovered this. A whole new world opened up before my very eyes.
I migrated from Mosaic to Netscape, to Opera, then to Firebird (later Firefox). I've never used IE, except when I was forced to.
Firefox has a problem and had had for years. On some platforms it occasionally starts to eat 100% of the CPU. This is intermittent and random. I don’t have the problem on my own laptop but the desktop that my wife uses has it and I cannot figure out how to resolve it. Clean re-install, disable java, flash, etc. None of it fixes things. So Firefox is simply unusable for her. Search the net, it is not an uncommon problem but there is no definitive solution that I can find.
Even CrapCleaner has a special option to clean up for Firefox.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Really? I've never hit that problem. I run Kubuntu at work and Debian on my wife's laptop (before you start laughing, it's an old laptop with a broken CD drive; the only install media I could use was floppy and network. Debian was the only current Linux distro I could find that had an install floppy; the only one of the BSDs that had one was OpenBSD and if you think Debian is esoteric...). I have never had a problem running dist-upgrades, including when I did updates remotely through SSH.
but I now run Gentoo on one of my machines.
I love Gentoo; I run it on my personal laptop and on the home network's "server" (an old whitebox). The best thing of all isn't even the optimization, IMHO, it is two important facts: first, that the base install is absolutely minimalist (I find it is much easier to start small and build up, than start large and tear down) and that you can strip unwanted dependencies from the system with USE flags. As a result, Gentoo is a great tinkerer's OS, with access (usually) to the latest and greatest software and maximum flexibility.
Its fun to play around with and learn more about the way linux works. Definitely not for everyone.
Right on both counts. Once you've got Gentoo down pat, you could roll your own distro--really. In fact, almost by definition, if you have a customized Gentoo machine, you are running a unique distro. But you're right. It isn't for anyone and it is most definitely not for someone looking for their first taste of Linux.
I was getting the same, and traced it down to a buggy addon. Try removing all addons and see if it continues to happen. If the crashing stops, bring back the addons one at a time, until the crashing comes back.
I think there were a few problems with Ubuntu 5.x->6 (I think that was the release) that I ran into, specifically with UI things. I ran into some circular xyz-lib dependency problems with non-Ubuntu programs I had installed. I don’t recall the specifics as it was a few years ago now. Rather than fighting with it, I decided to try Gentoo since it was my ‘play’ computer anyway.
I too have used debian on old crufty laptops too—one’s w/o CD drives running original pentiums. I think I have a set of floppies someplace with the install disks...
You are right about the minimalist install with Gentoo, that was one of the things that attracted me as well.
I tried doing a linux from scratch. That was fun, didn’t end up so good in the end, but haven’t tried *BSD installs yet.
Every so often they manage to break what wasn't broke, so I've been sticking with 1.5.0.6.
Get all your themes and extensions and tweak the browser the way you like it, and then get this program. (It might not backup all variations of themes and extensions, but it has for my particular setup).
I installed the latest Fedora yesterday, restored my .mozilla directory, and I was surfing again just like I was on Friday.
Oops, pinged you and you were already here.
I have a friend whose Firefox automatically updated to whatever version a couple of weeks ago, and all of a sudden clicking on links brought up the auto-scroll function(!).
I love that little backup program. Some of the best money I ever spent. ;)
I could have swore I looked to do that before but I guess I didn’t and it works now.
Thank you
It's not Microsoft. i run SuSE with Firefox 2.0.0.9, and i have the same difficulty with YOuTube. It may be them.
I am a firefox fan.
Thanks for the input
Just make sure you Firefox and extensions are up to date.
Thanks
That's a setting in preferences (or tools/options for you folks stuck in Winders). Should be under the "Main" tab.
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