Comments on: Ubuntu 9.10 RC Released

By: Jason Thibeault

Jason Thibeault — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:21:28 +0000

Ever since Chrome implemented threaded tabs, Mozilla’s been claiming to have it in the works. A blog post from June apparently even has video of an early alpha of gecko-iframe you might be interested in: http://blog.mozilla.com/cjones/2009/06/21/multi-process-firefox-coming-to-an-internets-near-you/

By: Spiv

Spiv — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:01:13 +0000

Also already have flashblock on, but you may still be correct. At any given time I’m sure I have a video or two turned on and likely adds to the prob.

That may also be the sound related issues too.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:57:53 +0000

So riddle me this: Why is every single instance of firefox all part of one single instance? Why can’t at least separate windows be separate processes?

By: Jason Thibeault

Jason Thibeault — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:48:24 +0000

It sounds to me like the crash helper dialog was configured to ignore further crashes of Firefox in your example, Greg.

Flash seems to be the most CPU-intensive thing I can possibly do on this computer. VirtualBox XP Pro doesn’t even hose the system as badly, or as quickly, as watching a ton of Youtube videos in a row. This is using the Adobe nonfree Flash, too. One of these days, when Gnash or one of the OSS Flash alternatives can handle some of the streaming video sites I frequent, like thecomedynetwork.ca and MSNBC.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:38:31 +0000

I have generally found firefox ‘crashes’ and really, it is more ghostly than a crash …. there one moment, not the next, no log files recording the event, can’t see it happen in a mirror, etc.) occur when flash is running, so I use flasblocker. That may not be the only possible cause (or yours) but it might be a place to start.

By: Spiv

Spiv — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:29:23 +0000

That worked, thanks mike! Problem must have been something in the package manager. Now if I can just get firefox (and a couple sound issues) sorted out I’ll be a happy camper.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:30:39 +0000

Spiv –

Try opening a terminal window and

sudo apt-get install acpi

Then, at the prompt

acpi -V
or acpi -Vf for non-celsius temp

By: Spiv

Spiv — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:03:50 +0000

Firefox seems to poop out every so often without warning or error. Also haven’t been able to get my temperature monitor to run yet.

By: davem

davem — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:31:38 +0000

I ran the Windows 7 public Beta test in Virtualbox on a 1GB desktop running Ubuntu – I gave Virtualbox 512Mb to play with, and it loaded and run fine, if a little slowly.

Typing this from my new laptop – 4Gb Ram, waiting for my W7 upgrade from the Vista supplied. It’s going to be run under V-box, so I can run the 2 Windoze progs I still use.

Still need to work out how or why Vista has ‘used’ 40Gb of disk for a freshly-installed system, though – I want that space back.

Oh, and I installed everything on ext4 – no problems so far.

By: Jeff Knapp

Jeff Knapp — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:22:59 +0000

Also, for those of you interested, Ubuntu runs very nicely as a virtual machine in Mac OS X. I use Parallels Desktop 4 for Mac. As a Mac user, I have to admit, Ubuntu has an awful lot going for it.