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

[Colin J Thomson]

On Thursday 12 June 2008 20:21:18 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:00 -0600, Reid Rivenburgh wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> >
> > <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > I think you want the x86_64 bit version here:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla1.9.0/
> >
> > It's called a nightly, but I bet it's exactly the same as RC3.
>
> Thanks Reid, I'll check it out.

You may also want to check out SwiftFox, available for many processor types:

http://getswiftfox.com/index.htm

The installer works well on this F9 box.

Colin
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