Firefox 3.0b5 Stalling

[majikthise]

Anyone else experiencing problems with the latest update to Firefox 3.0 beta 5?

Regularly stalling when it trynig to load pages.

[bob]

Yes, both FF3 and 4 have stalled badly for me. I switched to Swiftfox and so far the problem's been solved.

[majikthise]

How do I get swiftfox? Is it available via Yum?

[bob]

I just grabbed it from here: http://getswiftfox.com/download.htm - the installer works fine.

[majikthise]

Thank bob! Anything for a trouble-free life.

BTW who is responsible for reporting FF problems to Mozilla?

[majikthise]

OK, now I'm stumped what do I choose for 64bit intel.

Pentium E2160. Prescot? :confused:

[Demz]

wouldnt it be this one

http://getswiftfox.com/builds/installer/prescott/install-swiftfox.sh

so far from what i have read on the mozillazine forums the is no real date for FF3 RC1 due to blocker bugs an Core Blocker Bugs

[majikthise]

It's not happy Demz. :(

Launches and quits. Maybe it will be ok after a reboot/logoff. Using Epiphany for the time being.

[Demz]

It's not happy Demz. :(

Launches and quits. Maybe it will be ok after a reboot/logoff. Using Epiphany for the time being.
weird ,, should work without rebooting, i had no problems with it in Fedora8

[bowling4soup351]

the only problem i've had was flash not installing. :p

[majikthise]

Rebooted PC. I got a long list of crap as though it was still active in the background. Anyway I don't have the time to fix it, so it will just have to stay that way.

Thanks for your time.

[marko]

Sometimes FF3B5 spends a lot of time fooling with the
urlclassifier.sqlite files, if that's bugging you, go to:

Edit -> Preferences -> Security -> toggle off the two
checkboxes about "Tell me if the site I'm visiting is a suspected attack | forgery" ....

You can tell this is going on because FF3 will get slowish and the disk will be
grinding a bit. If you look in your .mozilla/firefox/xxxxxx.default/ dir
the urlclassifier.sqlite file will be the newest file, and it will be growing and
probably large.

UPDATE:
mozilla bug link for urlclassifier issue (currently listed as resolved )

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430530

[majikthise]

Thanks marko it's much better. :)

[xploder]

Firefox was locking up and crashing on me this morning. I will give marko's advice a try.

Thanks!

[ShivaS]

I updated the F9 system yesterday evening and FF worked fine after the upgrade. Was a newer version released during the night ( GMT +2 time )?

[ShivaS]

L.E.: Updated FF to the latest version in Fedora repo. No stalling, here...yet :)

[majikthise]

Hi,
Which version is it?

[ShivaS]

Hi,
Which version is it?

It's firefox-3.0-0.59.beta5.fc9.x86_64.
Could it be a 32bit issue?

Oh, I see @majikthise that you also have the 64bit edition...perhaps it's a hardware glitch ...
Have you tried reinstalling FF ?

Btw ...the PulseAudio is crashing. The message says: "phonon: The audio playback device PulseAudio does not work. Falling back to HDA Intel (AD198x Analog)". Well, at least I have sound :)

[majikthise]

Could it be a 32bit issue?I'm using 64bit F9, and I have no idea about the 32bit version of F9, or 32bit FF3 on it. Just hiccup I guess. :)

[majikthise]

Please. Don't get me started on PulseAudio issues. :)

[ShivaS]

Well ..let's talk about iptables and SELinux in F9, even if it's a little OFF ... :D

I made a firewall script to configure iptables: basically I allow DHCP in and http, ssh and ftp out of my F9 box. I've runned the script, SELinux complained so I typed:
#setenforce 0
# ./firewall
#touch ./relabel ( something like that, anyway )
#reboot
Now, F9 stops at "applying iptables rules" and it doesn't go further...and I have no ideea how to fix it ... :mad:

[vorcigernix]

Just wanted to say +1 thanks for marco. But. I loved firefox from early Phoenix. It was simple nice fast browser. Now its all lost. Fortuna is looking on us in linux systems, where we can use epiphany. They should really do a windows version and get some fortune :)

[Dan]

That's kind of like hanging pearls on a pig, isn't it? <..:p..>

[vorcigernix]

That's kind of like hanging pearls on a pig, isn't it? <..:p..>
Yea...it is. On other side, I am one of pigs in work, for example :D