Firefox-2

[Nigel Ridley]

Nigel Ridley wrote:
> I got fed up with Firefox 3 beta 5 (slow etc.) and removed it and installed firefox-2.
> BUT I can't find out how to launch it - it doesn't show up in the Kmenu and Alt-F2 > firefox-2 
> produces an error message - can't find executable :-(
> 
> How do I launch it?
> 
> Blessings,
> 
> Nigel
> 

Replying to myself here:

ff3 appeared to be slow - but it wasn't. I installed ff2 and it was 'slow' like ff3 !?
What happens is that I have several news sites in a bookmark folder and i open them all at the 
same time ('Open All in Tabs'). Then ff (both 2 & 3) start to crawl and use up tons of cpu's and, 
I'm using a laptop, the cpu stepping goes to maximum. Pages are non responsive at first to 
scrolling but gets better when I start to close some of the tabs.

I have tried disabling 'Smooth Scrolling' and it's better, but not what it should be.
This never happened with Gutsy nor Fiesty (using ff2).

If somebody want to test the sites (as a group of tabs) so that I can know whether it is a Hardy 
problem, my laptop (Inspiron 1525) or a firefox problem, here they are:

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/
http://www.ynetnews.com/
http://www.jpost.com/
http://www.debka.com/
http://www.haaretz.com/
http://www.wnd.com/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

There does seem to be loads of Flash stuff on these websites - perhaps that is a problem?

Interesting: I just loaded http://www.ynetnews.com/ by itself (ff3), and after the page loads, if 
I then scroll up and down a couple of times it is jumpy and the cpu stepping jumps to maximum, 
2001 MHz, then settles down to 800 MHz.
Actually, just letting the page stand still, with the flashy Flash ads doing their stuff, the cpu 
is constantly moving from 800 MHz > 2001 MHz > 800 MHz > 2001 MHz. This is a dual core laptop.

What gives?

Blessings,

Nigel

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