rockybalboa Posted May 8, 2004 Report Share Posted May 8, 2004 I am a giant fan of Firefox (at least my Windows version). I am a new fan of Mandrake and I want to run Firebird in it. Can anyone quote me their experiences, so I can cut my trial and error period down? Thanks for the input. Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted May 8, 2004 Report Share Posted May 8, 2004 Perfect, better than windows ;) Go urpmi mozilla-firefox and enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted May 8, 2004 Report Share Posted May 8, 2004 It all works in basically the same way - so your own windows based experience will pretty much tell you all you need to know... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
journeys1 Posted May 9, 2004 Report Share Posted May 9, 2004 It's bitchin in mandrake 10 also! As I dual boot with xp and run firefox on it too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!nkubus Posted May 9, 2004 Report Share Posted May 9, 2004 (edited) firefox is the best thing since the sliced bread :) i use it on linux at home and windows at work, i have converted basically everybuddy that i know to it, the extension all in one gesture is rocking so much :) Edited May 9, 2004 by !nkubus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopDog Posted May 10, 2004 Report Share Posted May 10, 2004 Firefox and 10. Community Edition was not friends on my PC. After surfing 5 minutes the hole kanudle froze as if it was Windows. But now on my 10.0 Official Community Download Edition (or whatever they call it now...) Firefox runs like a charm. I love it :woops: Anyone know if there is a way of installing extensions without loggin out and in as root? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nggalai Posted May 10, 2004 Report Share Posted May 10, 2004 What makes me wonder is how much much slower Firefox runs on Linux than on Windows, on my system. We're talking huge differences here, especially when opening a number of tabs at the same time. Firefox on Linux is very irresponsive, then, while you don't even feel a hitch on Windows. Also, downloading stuff using Firefox eats up 6-10% CPU on Linux, 1-2% on Windows. Is my MDK installation buggered, or IS Firefox really that much slower on Linux than Windows? 93, -Sascha.rb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted May 10, 2004 Report Share Posted May 10, 2004 Firefox runs better here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted May 10, 2004 Report Share Posted May 10, 2004 Dunno, to be honest I havnt used it for a while.. Not that I dont like it but its more about being spoiled for choice :D Opera/Konqueror are presently my 'preferred' browsers ... but only becuase the icons are easy to hand. nggalai ... might be a dns resoluition prob or something ... try Opera free (not to replace it but just see if its slow too),,, its blazingly fast for me .. I have no Windows to compare with... except at work and thats IE through a treacle filter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted May 10, 2004 Report Share Posted May 10, 2004 I'm using Firefox in Linux and its very quick, although I can't really notice any difference to the speed of the windows version. Perhaps it's because I'm on the end of such a fat pipe... :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nggalai Posted May 11, 2004 Report Share Posted May 11, 2004 Good to hear it's working for you guys. :) Just to make sure, could you do the following? Go to mandrakusers.org, and subsequently open all sub-forums in background tabs. If I do that on Linux, the next tab will only open after the previous tab / page has been loading for some time (doesn't need to finish loading, though), and the browser sort of "hangs" i.e. doesn't respond to clicks and the like for some seconds with each newly opened tab. In Windows, no "hanging" at all--middle-click on forum link, opens, middle-click on next link etc -> no problem. With Linux, I can't even scroll down the page and / or click on other links while pages in tabs are freshly being loaded. There's something like a .5s delay, in some rare cases (opening an RPMS ftp directory in the background), the whole browser "hangs" for up to 5 seconds. Not so under Windows. Any idea what's wrong with my Firefox setup? Feedback would be much appreciated indeed. 93, -Sascha.rb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdion81 Posted May 11, 2004 Report Share Posted May 11, 2004 I dont have any probs with Firefox, I use it on my laptop in windows, Linspire and Mandrake and it seems to respond the same in all of them (Fast) Firefox takes about 2 seconds to open on all os's. I am not using the version that you can get via urpmi I downloaded it and installed it manually and configured java and flash manually too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcus1060 Posted May 12, 2004 Report Share Posted May 12, 2004 I currently have the version dled from the website, but should I use urpmi mozilla-firefox instead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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