HowTo Install the Latest Firefox in Ubuntu (Ultimate HowTo)

[domino]

FF 1.5rc2 3 tabs/sites open and all plugins disabled used 120mb of memory, compared to Opera 3 tabs/sites 50mb. Both left running over 2hrs time. FF was fun while it lasted. Can someone tell me if the virtual memory usage matters? I can't seam to find the app's physical memory usage.

[PenguinZdravko]

How can I know have I correctly installed Mozilla Firefox 1.5 RC3? In the about dialog it still shows build date 20051111, but I have removed the folder of 1.5 RC2.

[jeremy]

Firefox doesn't update itself that way, only the plugins/themes etc. You'll need to download the tarball and replace the directory in /opt as per the how-to

Thanks for answering, but I think you are probably wrong about that, see the snapshot of my firefox preferences.

[zwz]

I tried to install both 1.5rc2 and 1.5rc3 in breezy by strictly following the instructions, but got segfaults. Any ideas?

/opt/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 7726 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

[akurashy]

Ok so, I think this is a question I been wondering, can we use themes, because I downloadeda theme and it didn't want to work everytime i restarted firefox..

[jeremy]

Thanks for answering, but I think you are probably wrong about that, see the snapshot of my firefox preferences.

I just found this at mozilla forums:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=343101

[Footer]

Has anyone noticed that FF 1.5 RC1 eats up your processor after several hours...like <24 for me. If I leave it running, the processor gets maxxed out in <24 hours. Maybe this has been taken care of in RC2 (or RC3?). I remember reading that others were having this problem with 1.0.X as well ... Maybe it's related to the kernel I'm running which is currently 2.6.12-9-k7 (AMD Athlon XP 3000+ processor)?

Any thoughts/observations, greatly appreciated!

It's BAAAAACK!!! I'm now running FF 1.5 RC3 and in less than 24 hours, my processor CPU load was maxxed at 100%. Closed/reopened FF and all is well, back to about 4-5%. Still running 2.6.12-9-k7 kernel ... Anyone else experiencing this? I sure hope they get this fixed before the final release.

Thanks.

[nix4me]

It's BAAAAACK!!! I'm now running FF 1.5 RC3 and in less than 24 hours, my processor CPU load was maxxed at 100%. Closed/reopened FF and all is well, back to about 4-5%. Still running 2.6.12-9-k7 kernel ... Anyone else experiencing this? I sure hope they get this fixed before the final release.

Thanks.

Are you running any extensions?
I had similar problems and I think it was because of the user agent switcher i had loaded. Mine is running at 120 mb right now. Seems to be normal.

Mark

[zwz]

I tried to install both 1.5rc2 and 1.5rc3 in breezy by strictly following the instructions, but got segfaults. Any ideas?

I traced it down to SCIM. If scim is removed, firefox 1.5rc starts up normally. But since I cannot live without SCIM, I'll have to downgrade to 1.0.7.

[Cuppa-Chino]

I traced it down to SCIM. If scim is removed, firefox 1.5rc starts up normally. But since I cannot live without SCIM, I'll have to downgrade to 1.0.7.

what is SCIM ? I had posted on the enormous memory consumption earlier, any fixes?