[ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

[J Fernyhough]

On 2 February 2014 13:04, Anthony Harrington
<Untaintableangel at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I'd recommend adding the Mozilla daily ppa and upgrading your installation
> that way. It's usually updated everyday of the year, give or take the odd
> week around holidays (for obvious reasons!) but i've yet to have problems
> with it in all the years i've been using it. It really is a great resource.

The only downside of this is the extra download size. Using the PPA
will download the full 30MB .deb for each update, whereas the Mozilla
"local" version downloads the .mar (so does a diff update). Much
smaller (about 2MB per day).

Of course, if Ubuntu would support delta-update debs... ;)

J