Firefox 3 worth installing under Linpus?

Hi,

Have you installed Firefox 3 under Linpus? If so, does it perform better than FF2 (which I believe comes standard), and is it worth the trouble?

Thanks,

John

 

I'm also curious about the benefits and downsides of installing Firefox 3.

It seems many on the forum have experienced slow performance after installing Firefox 3. Many seem to regret the "upgrade" and are trying to revert to Firefox 2 (and are struggling to do so).

Is everyone experiencing a slow down? Are there other downsides?

Do the benefits outweigh the costs? :geek:

 

I installed FF3 using the how-to in these forums. The first time I thought I'd get clever and uninstall FF2 first, that completely kacked the OS. Second time lucky it worked fine, no obvious slow-down, auto update, add-ons and themes work just fine. There are hints and tips in here to improve performance of FF3, I tried most of them, but couldn't really see any improvement afterwards. So, for me it was definitely worth the effort, and there's no 'downside', I don't want to revert to FF2

Keith

 

I installed ff3 on linpus. It stayed stable for about 24 hours then suddenly spat out an error and removed the back and forward arrows from the toolbar. I ended up doing another recovery. I wouldn't bother, if its not broke don't fix it.

 

I installed FF3 according to instructions at http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/07/inst ... e-one.html
It works fine, but i also installed opera, and am inclined to use opera, because it's that bit faster (even than ff2).
Goto http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?platform=linux and choose the latest fedora release

 

Thanks for your very helpful feedback on this. After messing about with my Eee 701's Xandros and eventually installing XP (which I confess was enjoyable but pretty time consuming), I'm much less inclined to get another netbook that requires such effort to bring up to my specs (ie, FF3). The Dell Mini 9 with Ubuntu is looking pretty good to me on paper, although not released at this writing.