Firefox 3 beta on Fedora 9 uses lots of IO after start

Raymond C. Rodgers sinful622 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 12 18:42:58 UTC 2008


Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 14:08 -0700, stan wrote:
>   
>> Brian C. Huffman wrote:
>>     
>>> I don't know for sure, but I think this must have been fixed by rc2 (based on my current performance).  I couldn't live with the IO thrashing in b5.
>>>
>>> I just downloaded the binary from mozilla.org and installed it under /usr/lib/firefox-3.0rc2 and changed the references in /usr/bin/firefox.  My performance is *much* better now.
>>>
>>> Once they get an RPM out, I'll switch.  But for now, I'm able to actually work.
>>>
>>> -b
>>>       
>> Thanks for letting me know that RC2 is fixed for this issue, sounds like 
>> the way to go. 
>> You're right about how inconvenient it is. :-)
>>     
>
> I dl´ed the RC3 binary from mozilla.com and it does seem to work better.
> Unfortunately it's a 32-bit binary so a lot of my plugins don't work. I
> can't seem to find a 64-bit version anywhere. I seem to remember Mozilla
> used to keep a larger set of binaries in ftp.mozilla.com, not all of
> which appeared on the Web page, but now it's gone.
>
> Anyone managed to obtain (or build) a 64-bit version of RC3?
>
> poc
>
> PS I don't understand why this isn't considered important enough to be
> put in the updates repo.
>
>   
Not I but Mozilla has announced that Firefox 3 will be officially 
released on June 17th, so I imagine the Fedora 9 update won't be far behind.

Raymond




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