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On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson <beau@××××××××××××.com>wrote: |
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> On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>> 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 |
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>>> has always been pretty bad in general for me. Slow UI, unusable in NX |
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>>> (constant screen redraws; Thunderbird does the same thing), network |
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>>> stalling for MINUTES at a time, slow to load, etc. Other browsers on |
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>>> the same machine don't suffer any of these problems. I don't use |
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>>> Firefox as my primary browser because it is so flaky. |
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>> That's odd, because on this newish i5 box, which is suffering really |
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>> severe responsiveness problems otherwise, FF responds to my commands |
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>> smartly. |
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> Firefox for windows is compiled with PGO via ICC which apparently improves |
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> performance quite a bit. I believe there are issues when firefox is compiled |
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> with GCC via PGO and in any case, there is no support for PGO building of |
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> Firefox @ gentoo afaik. I wish I had the time and knowledge to whip up an |
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> ebuild that could do the magic to test it out tho. |
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> Any takers ? :P |
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> Uh, what are PGO and ICC?? |
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I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on Ubuntu let |
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alone Vista, which makes me take your suggestion about build parameters |
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seriously. |
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++ kevin |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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