[PLUG] Laptop Locks Up

[Robert Munro]

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On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 06:33:03 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jan 2012, Robert Munro wrote:
> 
>>> I definitely recommend that you try Firefox 9.0.1 though. It's
>>> much faster than the previous versions of Firefox, rather
>>> noticeably so.
> Robert,
> 
> Is it more conservative of memory?
> 
> I'll need to learn how to build and install 9.0.1 on a debian-based
> system as I doubt that version's in a ubuntu repository.

It is reported to use less memory, yes. I don't know if Mozilla caught
all the memory leaks, but Firefox frees memory more aggressively now:
http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/12/mozilla-unleashes-faster-smaller-firefox-9/
and http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/9.0.1/releasenotes/ .

It doesn't have separate versions for different Linux distributions,
it seems, but the download at http:/www.firefox.com works under Ubuntu
I'm told. I'd suggest that you can download the tar file to /usr/local
then as root, cd /usr/local; untar -xvjf firefox-9.0.1.tar.bz2 .

Good luck!
Robert
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