[TriLUG] Problems with Firefox v29

[Peter Neilson]

Can't print PDFs anymore--Ubuntu 12.04. If I ask Google Calendar to print  
an appointment I get blank. It's not the printer, because the generated  
PDF (or a PS file, either, IIRC) itself is empty. I'll print my  
appointments from Opera until it gets resolved. Supposedly fixed in 29.0.1  
or something, but I'm not bothering to fiddle with it.

It's like when my auto repair shop "fixes" my truck's brakes but the  
manager doesn't bother to test drive it before giving it back, as happened  
twice recently. I'd go to another shop, or dump Firefox, if I felt I had a  
better alternative.

On Mon, 19 May 2014 11:03:48 -0400, Scott G. Hall <scott at hallcomm-inc.com>  
wrote:

> Anyone else having problems with Firefox lately?
>
> Ever since the latest package update from Ubuntu  
> (29.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.2),
> version 29 of Firefox, I've had performance problems.  There are severe  
> memory
> leaks, tons of window manager resources used (far more than the previous  
> version).
>
> My general usage pattern is to have 10 to 15 tabs open, and the only
> addons/plugins I've added are TabMix-Plus; Mint Linux adds the  
> DuckDuckGo search
> plugin, IcedTea-Web, Gecko Media Player, Totem Player, Adobe Reader and  
> Adobe
> Shockwave.  This hasn't changed for the last several versions, but  
> version 29 is
> a drastic resource hog.