[geeks] Needed: A good sparc workstation

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Mon Mar 9 09:33:12 CDT 2009


On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 11:56:33AM -0400, nate at portents.com wrote:
> > FF3 is way faster than FF2 under solaris. Opera is even faster. All of
> > them are more stable on sparc than x86 too, for some reason.
> 
> Hmm.  Haven't noticed any stability issues with Firefox 3 and x86 (Windows
> or Linux) or PPC (Mac).  I'm fairly anal about keeping all my plugins up
> to date and running a very lean number of Firefox Add-Ons on all
> platforms.

I have stability problems with FF3 on linux/x86_64, and I only use 2 up
to date plugins.  Every so often (could be days, could be several times
in a single day) it just exits.  I suspect that flash is to blame.



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