Firefox Running Slow in Linux

[Michael Cronenworth]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Firefox Running Slow in Linux
From: Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com>
To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. 
<fedora-list at redhat.com>
Date: 02/02/2009 02:06 PM

> 
> 
> All instances of Firefox on Linux that I have tried run arbitrarily
> slow. I've come to the conclusion that Mozilla doesn't care about
> Linux. Stuff that happens almost instantly on older Windows machines
> take several seconds on my fairly beefed up workstation. I've more or
> less given up on it.
> 
> 

Yes, Firefox under Linux used to start up faster and run just as fast as 
its Windows counterpart in 2.0. With 3.0 the Windows version starts much 
faster, closes instantly, and loads and renders pages much faster. My 
opinion is based on a 3ghz Core 2 machine with the latest generation 
nVidia card and 100+mb/sec Seagate 750GB SATA-II hard drive. Sure, the 
nVidia driver could be to blame for some rendering things, but not 
startup time or other problem areas. Sometimes Firefox takes so long to 
quit that Compiz thinks it's locked up and grey's it out and asks if I 
want to Force Quit it. That's very bad when I have no other applications 
hogging I/O bandwidth.

Mozilla's distaste for Linux was seen with the ignoring of the theme 
refresh and horrid sync() bug of 3.0.0. I fear it will just get worse.