firefox slow rendering (e.g. wikipedia)

[Ian Malone]

David Boles wrote:
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> Ian Malone wrote:
>> taharka wrote:
>>> How do again,
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 16:28 -0200, Clodoaldo wrote:
>>>> 2006/11/30, Scott van Looy <scott at ethosuk.org.uk>:
>>>>> Today Clodoaldo did spake thusly:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 2006/11/30, taharka <res00vl8 at alltel.net>:
>>>>>>> How do,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 15:28 -0200, Clodoaldo wrote:
>>>>>>>> 2006/11/30, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>>>> Okay, I've had this problem for a while and I'm beginning
>>>>>>>>> to wonder why.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Firefox sometimes responds very slowly, especially when
>>>>>>>>> rendering Wikipedia and a few other pages (mostly wikis
>>>>>>>>> actually). I don't mean connecting to the internet, I mean
>>>>>>>>> responding to the user; e.g. I run a mouse gestures
>>>>>>>>> extension which can become unusable with a couple
>>>>>>>>> of Wikipedia tabs open. Booting the same machine into
>>>>>>>>> Windows Me and running Firefox I don't have this problem.
>>>>>>>>> System is FC5, Athlon 1.3GHz, 1GB RAM, GeForce 3 Ti200
>>>>>>>>> with Nvidia drivers.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> So:
>>>>>>>>> Does anyone else have this problem?
>>>>>>>> I have. Any site javascript intensive makes FF consume 100% CPU
>>>>>>>> for a
>>>>>>>> few seconds at each click. Gmail is one of them.
>>>>>>> So, how bout installing the noscript extension & enabling
>>>>>>> javascript for
>>>>>>> sites where it is absolutely necessary?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> You are a genius. What a wonderful solution. I each site i just go to
>>>>>> Edit -> Preferences -> Content -> Enable JavaScript. And them wait for
>>>>>> each click or page scroll. I have a better one: Why not just use Opera
>>>>>> in instead of FF? This one is much better: If you have nothing worth
>>>>>> to say why don't you just shut up?
>>>>> Or, alternatively, why don't you bite the hand that helps you?
>>>>> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722/
>>>> Could you elaborate on how that fixes FF slowness on javaScript sites?
>>>> To make it clear: I need Gmail *with* javaScript enabled. Blocking
>>>> javaScript is not a solution when javaScript is necessary or just nice
>>>> to have.
>>> I suggest you go to the link Scott provided you & read the documentation
>>> for that extension for yourself. If it's still unclear, there's a link
>>> to the authors site. His site will tell you anything you want to know
>>> regarding the noscript extension ;-) Plus, you can email him.
>>>
>> I'd agree Clodoaldo's response wasn't really necessary,
>> however he's right that the JavaScript heavy sites tend
>> to be ones like Gmail that need it.  I'm also not really
>> happy with use Konqueror/Opera/A Mac type answers because
>> I know FF on the same machine under windows works fine,
>> and I doubt that it's windows causing the difference.
>>
>> I've just tried the binary version of 1.5.0.8 from
>> Mozilla and it won't run (seemingly library problems),
>> maybe I'll give 2.0 a go.
> 
> 
> Get the Firefox 2.0 from Mozilla. It is much improved over 1.5.0.8 and
> the Mozilla Firefox runs and displays much faster than the Fedora rpms.
> 
> After you have installed Firefox run it from a terminal window and it
> will tell you what compat library file it is missing.
> 
> yum what provides <name>
> 
> will tell you the exact name of the compat library package that you need
> to install.
> 

The Firefox 2.0 binary JustWorks. I had tried 1.5.0.8 for the
sake of direct comparison, but the error message at the terminal
is not very useful, just "bus error" with a number and the line
from mozilla-run.sh that called the binary.  (And I do have
compat-libstdc++-33 installed)

You are right that the 2.0 binary has much better performance
than the FC5 1.5 RPM.

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