On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 12:03:21PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm trying out Firefox again, and am dogged by slow performance, > particularly on startup and window/tab operations. The browser lags > noticeably, a feature it shares with Mozilla and a couple other apps > (most noticably OpenOffice.org). All of them share the characteristic > of opening to an initially unresponsive window which tends to show an > image of other desktop elements. Screenshot: > > http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/ffx-dead-window.png > I just get a 404 for this link. > The terminal window (showing this email in progress) is duplicated over > the browser window. Note that the titlebar shows both blue and grey -- > the grey bit is the part that's showing on the Firefox window. > > Delays are noticed when: > > - Opening new tabs. > - Loading new tabs in background. > - Opening new windows. > - Closing tabs. > - Launching the preferences dialog (Edit => Preferences). > > Delays are up to 5-10 seconds, or longer, for actions to complete. > > I'd chalked this up to Firefox itself being fundamentally slow, but > noticed on other systems that these issues don't appear to be present. > In general, I get delays when using FF as well. Most noticably when viewing Slashdot discussions with 500+ comments. However, I attributed this more to Slashdot's crappy generated HTML. Not sure. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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