linuxgeek: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Firefox problem

Thursday, October 22, 2009

[LINUX_Newbies] Re: Firefox problem

I don't care how much y'all hate FF3.x, reverting to FF 2.x is a security breach waiting to happen, and the *worst* frakking advice to give someone.

As far as the memory leaks go, well, I've just learned to not leave my browser open overnight when I go to sleep, it's fine otherwise. I tend to run into more immediate troubles dealing with script-heavy sites (like yahoo.com)...

Opera just doesn't do it for me, it doesn't have the extensions I need or the themes I want.

I'm running PCLOS 2009.2 on a 1.8GHz Sempron-based laptop, and never had that autoscrolling problem.

Glenn, have you tried starting Firefox in safe mode [code]firefox --safe-mode[/code] and resetting everything? It might even be worth your while to remove/reinstall Firefox from within Synaptic, or even to do a total OS re-install (custom, preserving your /home partition) from a 2009.2 LiveCD, because sometimes glitches and other artifacts get carried forward when one upgrades, drek that gets eliminated by a clean install.

--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "glenn596658" <glenn596658@...> wrote:
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> I am using pclinuxos and have been for four years. I have done all the upgrades and keep my system up to date. Since the new Firefox release, 3.5 (currently 3.5.3) I have experienced the screen "auto scrolling" up and down for minuets at a time with no way to stop it short of closing down Firefox and restarting it again.