Re: Firefox

" From: Craig Dewick <[email protected]>
" 
" 
" Interestingly, I run Solaris 9 (never bothered to upgrade, but I may move 
" to 10 one day) and use Firefox 2.0.0.20 since that appears to be the 
" latest version for which pre-compiled packages were produced and made 
" available quite a long way back now.

i'm still on s8, and given the patch situation not likely to favor
oracle.  i'd consider openindiana if they ever produce sparc builds.

i have occasional fantasies of building newer stuff like ff, but
chasing the list of prerequisites and building them quickly adds up to
a lot of hours...

" I do note that my Toughbook PC's that run WinXp have all wanted to 
" download and install FF7 and it does seem to run sort of ok, but with lots 
" of tabs open it slows down and eventually locks up.

my xp machines are all still on ff3.6; got tired of being on the
bleeding edge...  i presently have 9 ff windows with about half a
dozen tabs each.  3.6 doesn't have a problem.

i'll probably move up when support for it ends, following the trailing
edge of the ff ecosystem.

" Never had this happen with 2.0.0.20 on this system (my SunBlade 1000) - it 
" just crashes completely when it's had enough and usually will not save any 
" of the previous history information to re-load the tabs when I start it up 
" again.

3.6 is better on this end too.  it last crashed on me [yesterday] when
i closed a tab that was playing a video, but it must checkpoint its
tabs, b/c all 9 of my windows came back when i restarted it.

also discovered i can improve flash playback a lot by bumping
plugin_container priority, in taskman.
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