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From: lordsauronthegreat@×××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 04:10:40
Message-Id: 200605032221.27730.lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow? by "Tero Grundström"
1 On Tuesday 02 May 2006 06:05 am, Tero Grundström wrote:
2 > On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, wu chuanwen wrote:
3 > > Hi! Everybody!
4 > > I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?In
5 > > my machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck
6 > > and even can not scroll up and down.Many peple have the same situation.Do
7 > > you think so? And how can you solve this problem?
8 >
9 > Well, I recently switched to the binary version and to my surprise I
10 > found that it is much faster than the self compiled version. Especially
11 > the interface is much more responsive in the binary version. I don't know
12 > how it could be. Makes me really wonder where else I'm loosing speed on
13 > Gentoo...
14
15 How did you "switch to a binary version?" How did you do that? I didn't know
16 you could use emerge and not compile it. Unless, of course, you aren't using
17 emerge...

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Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow? Jamie <gentoo@×××××××.nz>
Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow? Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>
Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow? Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>