Suggestions for Firefox benchmarks

[Nicu Buculei]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> I find Firefox on Fedora Core 7 to be near unusably slow. As such, I
> am hoping for some suggestions on how I came quantify Firefox's
> performance.
> 
> At present, I only have relative evidence:
> On Firefox/Fedora I only have "Dom Inspector", "Adblock", and
> "DownloadThemAll" where as on my much slower laptop machine
> Firefox/WinXP has the same addons, plus many more with no noticeable
> slowdowns.

Instead of comparing with the Windows version, go to the Mozilla 
website, download the vanilla Linux version version and compare with that.

> Since I haven't done anything special to Firefox, I'm hoping to gather
> some more objective information, possible find out if there is really
> a problem.

IIRC, the slowness of Firefox is known and is because Fedora's version 
makes use of additional features (like Pango) but I am not sure it is 
measured exactly.

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