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From: Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 06:03:38
Message-Id: 4456F318.1060808@mid.email-server.info
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow? by lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com
1 lordsauronthegreat@×××××.com wrote:
2 > On Sunday 30 April 2006 08:47 am, Alexander Skwar wrote:
3 >> wu chuanwen wrote:
4 >> > 2006/4/30, Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name
5 >> > <mailto:listen@×××××××××××××××.name>>:
6 >> >
7 >> > Hm, those are not firefox USE flags. What do you get, when
8 >> > you run
9 >> >
10 >> > emerge -vpt mozilla-firefox
11 >> >
12 >> >
13 >> > I get this:
14 >> > [ebuild U ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.2 [1.5.0.1-r4]
15 >> > USE="gnome ipv6 -debug -java -mozdevelop -xinerama -xprint" 37 kB
16 >>
17 >> Do you really need ipv6? I doubt that this has anything to
18 >> do with the problem at hand, but if you don't need it, you
19 >> should remove it. If you don't know anything about ipv6,
20 >> it's very probable that you don't need it.
21 >
22 > IPV6 is a protocol
23
24 Yep.
25
26 > that is (AFAIK) just a layer below TCP/IP.
27
28 Wrong. Besides: "just a layer below TCP/IP" makes no sense.
29 TCP/IP is a protocol family. Two of those members are IPv4
30 and IPv6. Now, what's "just a layer below TCP/IP" supposed
31 to mean?
32
33 > I wouldn't
34 > remove it if I were you.
35
36 Why not? Why leave in things, which are not needed and which
37 are known to possibly cause problems?
38
39 >> Try a blank Firefox profile. To create one, run "firefox -ProfileManager".
40 >
41 > I don't see how that would help anything.
42
43 It would help, if the problem is on his side, caused by bad
44 settings in his profile. If everything's faster with a blank
45 profile, he knows for sure, that the problems were caused
46 by his old profile.
47
48 Alexander Skwar
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50 It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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