Firefox hangs badly after update to 2.0.0.14

Written by: daniel

April 22, 2008

I have updated today my firefox under Ubuntu Feisty. This was one of the automatic updates built in the system:

Synaptic -> File -> History

firefox (2.0.0.13+1nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10) to 2.0.0.14+2nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10
firefox-gnome-support (2.0.0.13+1nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10) to 2.0.0.14+2nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10

…and since then the browser dies badly while browsing or using gmail.

Could it be a bug in the new version on linux? Firefox has always been hungry on system resources (mostly memory) but the system I am on right now is quite robust and this problem makes it hardly usable. Hopefuly the new ver 3. will be out soon and will bring some peace to all of us.

In the meanwhile, testing some other browsers.

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