Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

[Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:07:10PM +0200, Gordon Schulz wrote:
> On 7/3/08, Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 02:24:49PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote:
> >  > I'm finding it unusable as it crashes often. How are you guys finding it?
> >  >
> >
> >
> > That is how I found FF2, and why I initially switched to Galeon. But
> >  when Firefox-3.0-r2 came out I gave FF another try, and I don't regret
> >  it at all. FF3 is a vast improvement over FF2 for me, it's quicker, more
> >  robust, takes up less memory, and the UI is a lot nicer. FF2 used to
> >  memory leak like an old man with diareah, but no problems with FF3.
> >
> >  And I'm talking about the mozilla-firefox package, not -bin. For -bin I
> >  have 2.0.0.14 installed in case I ever need to use FF2 for something...I
> >  don't know what I would use it for but it can't hurt to have it.
> 
> Probably a bit OT, but out of boredom I decided to give the newly
> released Opera 9.51 a spin - and I am pleasantly surprised. It's even
> way faster than FF3 and the font rendering is totally awesome.
> As I am developing quite some web-based stuff at work their new
> Dragonfly Debugger/Inspector is a good substitute for Firebug and the
> myopera.com integration supplies the much needed bookmark
> synchronisation between machines that Foxmarks handles on Firefox.
> 

I'm tempted to install Opera, but my system is completely GTK (if not
CLI) and I just don't want to waste space with installing Qt ... Is
there any possible way to install Opera without Qt support?

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