any thoughts on why firefox is still nad-grindingly slow?

[Robert L Cochran]

Thanks to you all Mike, Greg, Pat and Chuck. I've been on the road. I'll 
follow up on your suggestions tomorrow night sometime and report back.

Bob


On 04/25/2009 05:49 AM, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 22:32 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:
>    
>> I'm using Firefox 3.1B3 on Fedora 11, x86_64 and love it. I travel quite
>> a lot and bring my Fedora 11 laptop with me everywhere and so far I've
>> not had a single Firefox issue regardless of where I connect to the net.
>> My only problem (and perhaps I'm not doing something right) is that I
>> can't get Flash to work on x86_64 and this is more and more of a thorn
>> in my side as my friends ask me to look at this or that posting on YouTube.
>>      
>
> For 64bit flash (it's still beta but works pretty good)..
>
> 1 - http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
> 2- Scroll to the very bottom and look for the link with "Download 64-bit
> Plugin for Linux" and click on it to download the .so
> 3 - untar it, and copy the libflash.so (not sure of correct name) to
> your /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ dir.
> 4- Start firefox and should be all set.
>
>