[ubuntu-in] hardy getting slower with use?

[Onkar Shinde]

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Kartik Mistry <kartik.mistry at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 09 May 2008 4:30:17 pm AlgoMantra wrote:
>> Hi, I'm noticing that Hardy (esp. Firefox) has become much slower
>> since i installed it only a few days ago. Nothing dramatic, but its
>> kind of annoying. How does one clean up the temp files and
>> unnecessary data?
>
> Blame Ubuntu for shipping Firefox 3 beta version. They could have wait
> until it become stable. Alas.
>
> Use Firefox 2 or other browser(s) available in hardy.

Since Hardy is an LTS release, the packages need to be
maintained/updated for bug/security fixes for 3 years. AFAIK, the
Ubuntu developers prefer doing FF3 beta to FF3 final upgrade in
hardy-updates over shipping FF2 version which might not be supported
even by Mozilla for next 3 years.


Cheers,
Onkar