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Posted Jun 19, 2008 16:59 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: by asamardzic
Parent article: Over 8,000,000 Mozilla Firefox 3 Downloads in 24 Hours (MozillaZine)

It sounds like the fsync bug on ext3, that was "fixed" in rc2.  (For me, things aren't quite
as smooth as in FF2 but it's a big improvement on previous versions of FF3.)  But it shouldn't
manifest itself on images as far as I know.  It is most obvious when typing in the address bar
and on some other operations involving sqlite.

The only image-related thing I can think of is colour management support, which apparently
causes a performance hit, but for that reason it is disabled by default and can only be
enabled via about:config.  Perhaps slackware enables it by default.  

Google for links.


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Freezes

Posted Jun 21, 2008 22:37 UTC (Sat) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

In Fedora rawhide FF freezes due to a problem with spell checking. Turned that off, had no problems since.

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