On 7/27/07, Neil Cherry <ncherry@comcast.net> wrote:
> While I'm not arguing with your experience I find it odd. Firefox
> 1.5 & 2.0 have been very stable for me on my Linux boxes. I have
> a Ubuntu laptop that ran 1.5 but now runs 2.0 (I prefer 1.5 for
> a lot of little reasons). On my Fedora box it's still 1.5. I tend
> to crash other applications on another OS (it ain't VMS :-).

I have both Ubuntu 7.04 and 6.06LTS installations with Firefox
2.0 and 1.5 respectively. 1.5 is better. I've tried the bundled
version and the standalone version. It is not that bad but it
is the single-most often crashed program other than
my alpha/beta testing of some Linux software packages.

And IE crahes under Windows. No doubt about it. For me
the chance of crash is the same for IE under Windows
and Firefox under Linux. So I think they are the same
in term of stability for me. I should say I take good care
of my Windows installation and I might be a better Windows
user than a Linux user even though I prefer to use
Linux at home since I use Windows at work. Still
I will say I am quite good at using Linux (no
programming) and I can find solutions to
my Linux problem through Google most of the time.

> Which version of Firefox on Ubuntu and what add-on
> (if any) are you running?

Google search plug-in and flash plug-in.

> Are you hitting a lot of Java or Javascript pages?
No Java. Javascript, yes.

Some of the crashes are related to Chinese pages. Some
of the crashes might be related Ubuntu version of Firefox.
Some of the crashes might be related to Firefox 2.0. I do
not know.

Do not get me wrong, I like Ubuntu. It is my preferred Linux
distribution. And Linux is the prefer OS I will use at home.

Regards,
Xiaofan
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