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On 09/22/2010 12:23 AM, Beau Henderson 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 |
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> improves performance quite a bit. I believe there are issues when |
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> firefox is compiled with GCC via PGO and in any case, there is no |
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> support for PGO building of Firefox @ gentoo afaik. I wish I had the |
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> time and knowledge to whip up an ebuild that could do the magic to |
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> test it out tho. |
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> Any takers ? :P |
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You really think that wood change the unstable problem? |
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