Re: [ALUG] Firefox
What happens now is that it crashes if I play a Youtube clip. Somewhere else it's suggested that you kill the application (is that the right term?) but how do I do that? (Seems a better idea than waiting for ages till it decides that Firefox is not responding and lets me know... sigh.) Thanks. Bev.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bev Nicolson" <bnicolson@operamail.com> To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Firefox Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:54:31 +0100
Well if this is so I'll hang on and upgrade. I do hope so - it will make it all much easier/less painful! Thanks, Mark. Bev.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rogers" <mark@quarella.co.uk> To: ALUG <main@lists.alug.org.uk> Subject: Re: [ALUG] Firefox Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:21:14 +0000
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
The main problem you have now is your upgrade path is pretty complicated because the supported path would be Dapper>Edgy>Feisty>Gutsy which is a lot of effort (in reality it may be possible to skip some of those but the official upgrade instructions are pretty clear in stating that only an upgrade from the previous version is supported). I am hoping that there will be a direct upgrade path between LTS versions so you would be able to do Dapper>Hardy next April..But I wouldn't hold your breath on that being the case.
My understanding is that this is indeed the case - 6.06LTS -> 8.04LTS will be supported in a single step.
I couldn't find anything "official" in a quick Google but this is a start: http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com/msg00756.html
"Hardy will be a special release in this respect since we'll be support upgrading from both 7.10 and 6.06. It is not trivial, but it's a high priority for us."
-- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG
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On 06 Jan 14:39, Bev Nicolson wrote:
What happens now is that it crashes if I play a Youtube clip. Somewhere else it's suggested that you kill the application (is that the right term?) but how do I do that? (Seems a better idea than waiting for ages till it decides that Firefox is not responding and lets me know... sigh.)
If you've got a command line handy, you can do: killall firefox-bin Otherwise, you could fire up xkill and click on the firefox window. Cheers, -- Brett Parker
On Jan 6, 2008 1:54 PM, Brett Parker <iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk> wrote:
On 06 Jan 14:39, Bev Nicolson wrote:
What happens now is that it crashes if I play a Youtube clip. Somewhere else it's suggested that you kill the application (is that the right term?) but how do I do that? (Seems a better idea than waiting for ages till it decides that Firefox is not responding and lets me know... sigh.)
If you've got a command line handy, you can do: killall firefox-bin
Otherwise, you could fire up xkill and click on the firefox window.
My Firefox in Ubuntu 7.10 has a habit of locking when opening a new window. The window manager detects the lockup and greys the offending windows. Clicking the X button then kills it. Anyone else? Tim.
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 14:28 +0000, Tim Green wrote:
My Firefox in Ubuntu 7.10 has a habit of locking when opening a new window. The window manager detects the lockup and greys the offending windows. Clicking the X button then kills it. Anyone else?
No can't say I have had that but then I tend to live in one window with lots of tabs rather than multiple windows. Also I am on AMD64 so I have the same version but a different build. TBH with Firefox the best thing to do is disable all plugins and see if you can reproduce the problem without them.
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