[ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

[Michael G Fletcher]

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 18:07 +0100, peter wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 09:43 +0200, Chris Rowson wrote:
> > Although it would seem that some people are finding the opposite to be
> > true to be fair!
> > 
> > On 4/29/08, Jai Harrison <jai at jaiharrison.com> wrote:
> > > I don't see what the problem is. Firefox 3 Beta 5 is more efficient
> > > and more stable than Firefox 2.
> > >
> I was finding that to be the case (firefox 3 being rubbish) but have
> found that disabling the "attack site" and "forgery site" detection in
> the security tab in preferences has completely cured all problems with
> slow, or miss loading of pages, sudden "greying out" of firefox and the
> burst of 5 - 10 mins of constant disk activity about 5 mins into firefox
> usage. In fact I have been given permission by the other half ("Don't
> know why you have to keep upgrading it was fine before!!") to remove
> firefox 2 from the system...yay
> 
> Peter
> 
sorry if I am joining the conversation late (new to the list - hello
everyone :-)), but I am glad that I appear not to be the only one that
had problems with FF3.  

Having seen Peter's comments above, I may have to try again and and
follow his advice.

--Michael
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