[ubuntu-uk] Bizarre Firefox behaviour

Stephen Garton sheepeatingtaz at gmail.com
Fri Oct 23 11:32:02 BST 2009


2009/10/23 Rob Beard <rob at esdelle.co.uk>:
> Stephen Garton wrote:
>> 2009/10/23 Rob Beard <rob at esdelle.co.uk>:
>>
>>> Liam Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>>>  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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Is Flash and Java supported by Chrome?
>>>
>>> I'm interested in giving it a try (I must admit I have found Firefox to
>>> be a little slow sometimes) but I can't live without my fix of Flash and
>>> Java (okay well I probably could, but it's nice to have for now until
>>> everything goes over to HTML5).
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
>> I'm using flash no problem (by Flash, I mean YouTube!). Don't really
>> know of any sites that use java - suggest one and I'll give it a go.
>>
>>
> Um... Java.com?
>
> Rob


http://java.com/en/download/installed.jsp?detect=jre&try=1

Tells me I have it installed, but I am assuming that it is using Java
to detect that?

I think facebook uses a Java applet for photo uploads, so I will give
that a try when I get home (big no-no at work!)

Steve Garton
http://www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk



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