Firefox slow on switching tabs

[Tommy Trussell]

On 12/1/05, Frank McCormick <fmccormick at videotron.ca> wrote:
>
>   I may have done something stupid (it's happened before) but I dl'ed
> 1.5 from the Fox servers last night, untarred it in my home directory,
> and it runs like a champion. Is there any reason NOT to do this?


The only reason(s) not to do it have to do with the package management. That
package is no longer being managed by apt, so when you update Ubuntu it will
not get upgraded and/or the  standard Ubuntu Firefox package will (or won't,
if you removed it) get updated and you won't be using whatever security
patches are applied. You're now running an "official" Mozilla version,
whereas before you were running the Ubuntu packaged version (which has some
differences from the official).

You could learn how to make your own .deb package from the tarball, then you
can install it using dpkg -i package_name.deb -- that way when it comes time
to update it, the removal would happen through your normal software update
tool (synaptic, apt-get, the Ubuntu update utility, whatever).

The other advantage to learning to make your own package is if you do that,
then learn more about it and then you could be yet another person helping to
keep Ubuntu updated for everyone!
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