[ubuntu-uk] Bizarre Firefox behaviour

[Liam Wilson]

Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
> Stephen Garton wrote:
>   
>> 2009/10/23 Sean Miller <sean at seanmiller.net>:
>>   
>>     
>>> Since yesterday's Jaunty update Firefox appears to have lost its
>>> history, "refresh" etc. buttons and only has the original domain in
>>> the address bar (ie. if I go to http://sitea.com and click on links
>>> within the address bar does not change, even if I go to other sites -
>>> rather like framed content).
>>>
>>> Anybody else had this?  If so, how do I resolve it?
>>>
>>> Sean
>>>
>>> --
>>> ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
>>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>> Sean,
>>
>> Not much help I'm afraid, but I regularly get this. It has what's
>> turned me into using chromium for most of my browsing.
>>
>>
>> Steve Garton
>> http://www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk
>>
>>   
>>     
> Yep, I too use Google Chrome now for all my browsing. The difference in 
> speed means I cannot go back to firefox, it seems to take an age to do 
> anything. I installed it by following the instruction in this page:
>
> http://lazyubuntu.com/how-to-install-google-chrome-dev-build-on-ubuntu-904-jaunty-jackalope.html
>
> Tom
>
>
>   
 Yeah, the speed on chrome compared to Firefox really is unreal, isn't 
it? Firefox seems horribly slow and clunky and unstable compared to the 
google-chrome-unstable build.