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On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Is it just me? Or does Firefox get slower every release? And less stable. |
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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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At work I use Firefox in Windows XP all day long on a much slower |
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computer, and it is faster (UI responsiveness feeling, not benchmarks) |
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and has none of the problems I have always experienced on my home |
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Gentoo box. It's been a long-standing mystery. |