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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 performance quite a bit. |
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I believe there are issues when 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 time and knowledge to whip up |
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an ebuild that could do the magic to test it out tho. |
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Any takers ? :P |
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Kind Regards, |
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Beau Henderson |
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