Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> 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.

I suspect this from your postings, you seem to be a
DIY type of person.

>> Which version of Firefox on Ubuntu and what add-on
>> (if any) are you running?
> 
> Google search plug-in and flash plug-in.

I'm not using the Google search plug-in. I usually
just type in 'g what ever I want' and use that as
my search. I sometimes use simple Google 'regex'
to limit my searches. I don't know if the search
plugin helps or hinders the problems. Have you
tried running without it?

>> 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.

I think that the use of the Chinese character set is the
key difference in our two setups. I don't visit many Chinese
sites. I don't know why it makes a difference but I get it
has something to do with the handling of (mine (ASCII, utf-8,
ISO8859-1?) is probably single byte character while I'll bet
the Chinese characters are 2 byte (could be more).

> 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.

I work with lots of OSs. I've never really grown attached to
Windows but I'm a long time Unix user so I think in terms of
Unix. This makes dealing with Windows difficult at times.
My preferred OS is obvious. :-) My preferred distribution is
a toss between Ubuntu for the Desktop (on my laptop) and
Fedora for my server/dev machine. Yes I still have Windows
as I need that for any school work I need to do.

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