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

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Thu Jun 12 19:20:20 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 14:42 -0400, Raymond C. Rodgers wrote:
> 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.

Yes, just saw that. Fingers crossed.

poc




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