Florin Andrei wrote:
I've heard a lot of complaints from Firefox/CentOS users. I never used CentOS as a desktop OS, so I can't confirm those issues from my own experience.
I experienced a LOT of crashing with FireFox 2 in Fedora 8 but almost none using the tarball version in Fedora Core 6 - in Fedora 8 - I blame the new-ness of the libraries it links against (that tarball version doesn't)
Rebuild of Fedora 8 src.rpm in CentOS 5 is also not as stable as the tarball version (I ran tarball version in CentOS 5) but is far more stable than Fedora 8 version in Fedora 8.
Unfortunately I can't use the firefox distributed tarball version because it links against an older libstdc++ which breaks the totem and icedtea plugins.
It would be sweet if upstream firefox would distribute a compiled tarball that links against the newer libstdc++