Re: Keeping firefox up to date

[Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>]

On 2016-08-15, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:

[...]

> Some where about 6 weeks back I wound up with both, and I don't seem
> to be able to make the -esr version work as default, it runs the
> 47.0.1 version anyway.  But wheezy is stuck on the older version.  And
> I don't care which is running, 5 minutes on the nbcnews.com site and I
> have to go find the screen htop is running on to kill it.

Javascript and flash are the most likely culprits. Consider disabling
them or using the noscript extension[1] to disable them
selectively.

1: https://packages.debian.org/wheezy-backports/xul-ext-noscript

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Liam