A friend of mine installed Hardy last night, but he's been having problems with the new Firefox. Every time he uses it, the harddrive light goes crazy and everything runs incredibly slowly. We've tried waiting it out to no avail. He usually has to just force power-off his computer. I don't know what's causing it.

He's got an HP Pavilion ZV6000 with 512 gb ram, AMD Athlon 64 2 ghz, ATI Radeon Xpress 128 mb.

Any ideas? Would there be a problem if we just installed the version that we'd get from firefox.com instead of the 3 Beta 5? I'm a little reluctant to do that because Firefox is so tightly integrated into Ubuntu, so I'm afraid it'll mess something up, but if that CAN be done, that'd be great.

My Firefox is working fine. I suggest you guys run it in the command line and see what output it shows. Or, just revert and get the official Mozilla binary from mozilla.com. See if that's any better.

hey,
i've got some problem in hardy also.
when i run firefox, it takes a couple of minutes(!) to start it up normally. i have this problem on two laptops too. one of them was upgraded from gutsy and the other was a fresh install.
i grabed ff from the mozilla site too, both are doing the same, and no output to the terminal if i ran it there.
ff running nicely on two other machines (fresh install and upgraded also...)
i have tried epiphany too, it crashes on startup opening a window named crash recovery but there's nothing inside, i had to close it by pressing ctrl-c.
any idea?