Well, I upgraded (or let Firefox upgrade) to 3.6.17 and have not had any
problems on either my iMac or the Macbook Pro. However, I am not sure if my
wife's and daughter's Windows machines have been affected, but they have not
complained.
Cheers,
Nathan
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On May 5, 2011, at 5:58 AM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> I have heard rumors that some Mac owners are finding problems similar to the
> ones that I am having.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Braun" <cygnus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 10:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] CAUTION About Firefox Update 3.6.17
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>> On 5/4/11 22:50 : , Jim Nichols wrote:
>>> Just a note of CAUTION. If you have not made the update to Firefox
>>> 3.6.17 that was offered a few days ago, think carefully. I, and at
>>> least 3 other Firefox users have found that, periodically, Firefox
>>> appears to be using up to 70% of available CPU time, slowing things down,
>>> and, in some systems, causing crashes. My system runs XP Home, SP3.
>>>
>>> I have submitted this to the Firefox Help Forum, but, as yet, have
>>> received no answer or suggestions.
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> I run FF on a G5 Mac, and routinely close it out once a day and then
>> restart it. Otherwise, it gets ridiculously slow.
>>
>> Oh, and I learned by mistake that you can't upgrade to FF 4 on a PPC Mac
>> - it won't load. They aren't real upfront about that until you've
>> already overwritten your functional 3.x install.....
>>
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>> Valparaiso, IN
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