The problem of Firefox in Ubuntu Breezy

Posted Jun 7, 2006 21:50 UTC (Wed) by tjc (guest, #137)
In reply to: The problem of Firefox in Ubuntu Breezy by h2
Parent article: The problem of Firefox in Ubuntu Breezy

In some ways version 0.9.3 was the high-water mark for Firefox (except for the security issues, of course). IIRC that was last release without that damnable search bar on the bottom of the window, and it didn't seem to crash too much.

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Posted Jun 7, 2006 21:56 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (3 responses)

Hey, I like the search bar at the bottom! I can finally search for stuff without the dialog blocking what I was trying to find...

Crashes are a pain, though; Firefox has seemed a bit wobbly for a while now.

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Posted Jun 8, 2006 2:11 UTC (Thu) by Mithrandir (guest, #3031) [Link]

Most of the destabilisation I've noticed seems to be related to upgrades not playing so nicely with your old profile. If you're seeing a lot of crashes often you can improve things by moving away your old profile directory (in .mozilla/firefox on my box), then opening firefox to create a new profile, then copying back the important stuff from your old profile.

Firefox still won't be completely stable, but it helps.

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Posted Jun 8, 2006 12:20 UTC (Thu) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link]

Agreed regarding the search bar. Also, because the pop-up was specified in a particular fashion (some kind-of window ownership relation I forget the details of) with something like the ion window manager it was impossible to move the pop-up window out of the way of whatever it was obscuring.

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Posted Jun 8, 2006 14:15 UTC (Thu) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]

Hey, I like the search bar at the bottom!

I had 0.9.3 configured to use vi keystrokes, so I could search with "/" and "n" without the dialog window getting in the way.

I have configured the search bar to use "/", but "n" doesn't work (and I find "F3" to be very Windows-like), and it seems to have focus problems which I have not been able to pin down. Sometimes I press "/" and start typing, the search bar doesn't pop, and the text goes to /dev/null, or some other useless place. I have to grab the mouse and click on the client area, and start over. I'm wondering if this is somehow related to using "focus follows pointer" on my window manager...