Firefox addons

[Jay Daniels]

On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 12:33 -0400, John DeCarlo wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Jay Daniels <tux at myt60.net> wrote:
>         In hardy with firefox, click tools/addons and then click, see
>         all
>         recommended addons.  It's always taken forever to load the
>         page.
>         
>         Why does clicking this embedded link take so long to load the
>         addon
>         page?
>         
> Are you using the Firefox that comes with Hardy?  What version?
> 
> 
> I recommend uninstalling it, going to  mozilla.com, downloading the
> real Firefox, and installing that in /opt or /home/firefox
> 
> 
> You will find much better performance.

But I would rather have a repository for latest version of firefox if
it's never going to be backported to hardy.  Current installed is 3.0.13
but I see 3.0.14 is out in the 3.0 tree which still seems to get
security updates.



jay