Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

[Beau Henderson]

On 09/24/10 08:11, alex@××××××××××××.de wrote:
>   On 09/22/2010 12:23 AM, Beau Henderson wrote:
>>  On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> > On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote:
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>> >> I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but Firefox in Linux
>> >> has always been pretty bad in general for me. Slow UI, unusable in NX
>> >> (constant screen redraws; Thunderbird does the same thing), network
>> >> stalling for MINUTES at a time, slow to load, etc. Other browsers on
>> >> the same machine don't suffer any of these problems. I don't use
>> >> Firefox as my primary browser because it is so flaky.
>> >
>> > That's odd, because on this newish i5 box, which is suffering really
>> > severe responsiveness problems otherwise, FF responds to my commands
>> > smartly.
>> >
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>>  Firefox for windows is compiled with PGO via ICC which apparently
>>  improves performance quite a bit. I believe there are issues when
>>  firefox is compiled with GCC via PGO and in any case, there is no
>>  support for PGO building of Firefox @ gentoo afaik. I wish I had the
>>  time and knowledge to whip up an ebuild that could do the magic to
>>  test it out tho.
>>
>>  Any takers ? :P
>>
> You really think that wood change the unstable problem?
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Stability, probably not. Performance, probably so. I haven't had any stability issues aside from the 
NSPR troubles.


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Beau Henderson