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Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system



On Sat, 28 May 2005 20:07:18 -0400
Marty <martyb@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> Jacob S wrote:
> > On Sat, 28 May 2005 19:31:00 -0400
> > Marty <martyb@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Rogério Brito wrote:
> >> > On May 28 2005, Ionut Georgescu wrote:
> >> >> On the other hand, the windows versions of Firefox and
> >Thunderbird > >are > amazingly fast. This is really said ...
> >> > 
> >> > Indeed. One thing that has puzzled me is that scrolling in
> >> > www.macslash.org
> >> > is simply *slow* on my system while I am using Debian.
> >> 
> >> I see it too.  Not only that, but the PageDown key seems to work
> >> incorrectly.
> > 
> > Are ya'll using unstable?
> 
> Sarge with mozilla-firefox 1.0.4-2
> 
> I should note, however, that Konqueror and Mozilla also seem slow on
> that page.  I tried it with IE on WinXP (did't have Firefox there), on
> a slower machine, and it was *much* faster, so maybe X11 is part of
> the problem.

Yea, or even compare window managers. I'm using IceWM here. Firefox is
still back at 1.0.3 on my computer, installed from a tarball. Firefox
seems to be the same speed as Galeon and Mozilla (only other 2 I use
with regularity). 

I will also mention that it is very rare for me to use Windows these
days, so I may not know what 'fast' is for a web browser. (But I tend to
doubt that. :-)

HTH,
Jacob



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