OT: Is it just me or is Firefox slowing worse?

[Michael Butash]

Java hasn't worked in linux since ver 35 I think, it just broke for 
everyone else recently.

I for one embrace the death of java as much as flash, both are terrible 
examples of necessary evils before, and now just a relic of the past 
that needs to die.  This was one thing I applauded apple for when they 
declined to support flash anymore.  Adobe and that little cartel needed 
to die off eventually, here's hoping java is next.

What does suck is "enterprise" application dependence on java, as it's 
been taught for 15 years, produced an army of usually bad developers, 
and ignorant software vendors actually believed it was "platform 
independent".  As long as you always ran jre6.42release3, not release 2 
or 4.  I've never seen any client that actually works right under linux 
with a correct version or not, another reason I end up keeping my dumb 
xp vm around with various customer environments.

I dread any java client usage, it is simply destined to fail.  If a 
vendor tries to sell me one, I laugh mockingly and decline, asking when 
they intend to join the 21st century.

There aren't a lot of classes and degrees to reform^H^H^H^Heducate 
people in modern languages to escape entrenchment of crap like java and 
microsoft languages either, uop and other crackhead colleges don't 
bother without microsoft or oracle schilling them. Old habits, and 
crusty developers die hard, but I suppose they need to eat too, and they 
hang out with the as400 guys and commiserate about that cloud thing.

-mb


On 05/23/2015 09:25 PM, Wayne Davis wrote:
> THIS may be of interest and a reason why you are having some issues:
>
> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/04/chrome-starts-pushing-java-off-the-web-by-disabling-plugins/ 
>
>
>
>
> On 05/23/2015 06:44 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
>> I don't notice firefox any slower than chromium, at least not until 
>> using chromes at the same time cause it and my system itself to come 
>> to a halt or implodes.
>>
>> I've simply had to start using firefox, chrome/chromium literally 
>> destroy my system now using it to the point it'll about destabilize 
>> my system within a day.  Plus, I'm finding more and more sites simply 
>> (again) don't work with chrome that forces me to use firefox that 
>> does.  It's like some resurgence of asp.net sites, or otherwise 
>> shitty web code chrome simply doesn't tolerate.
>>
>> Sadly use of chrome is beginning to make ubuntu almost unusable for 
>> me, for no lack of trying, I cannot figure out why.  Chrome and 
>> chromium continue to chew up some apparently indescribable limit I'm 
>> hitting that nothing logs or errors to the point I can't even wake it 
>> up after dpms shuts off my display, without them I'm fine, hard 
>> killing all chrome pids helps, but eventually once launching it, it's 
>> a countdown to destruction. I'm about rebooting my system every few 
>> days, starting to feel like windows 98 again.
>>
>> I really start to wonder what I'm doing wrong that no one else is 
>> doing, aside from apparently actually using linux to it's 
>> capabilities as a desktop, and well beyond.
>>
>> -mb
>>
>>
>> On 05/23/2015 04:43 PM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
>>> Is it just me or is Firefox slowing down worse all the time?
>>>
>>> Is there anything (new) that can be done to speed it up?
>>>
>>> I've made all the changes in about:config that I know to make.
>>>
>>> Or ... is the problem (also) my computer?
>>>
>>> Is there some way to clear memory other than to have to reboot?
>>>
>>> Day by day, everything just seems to get slower and slower
>>> until I finally give up and reboot and then things work
>>> a lot better (just for a while).
>>>
>>> I'm using Linux Mint.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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