Firefox Running Slow in Linux

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 16:24 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Daniel B. Thurman <dant at cdkkt.com> wrote:
> > Well, what do you mean by rendering?  What exactly are you 'rendering'?
> 
> The HTML and images that are being converted to pixels.
> 
> >  Running
> > a java-based or some other application like a mandelbrot application or
> > what? You
> > might let us know exactly what you are doing?
> 
> Just browsing the internet.
> 
> > It is hard to tell with the little data you are giving as to determine if by
> > rendering you
> > are getting `streaming data' coming from "remote" or "local" sources  and if
> > the
> > data (for rendering?) coming from local/remote servers and/or services?
> 
> Doesn't rendering simply mean creating visuals from data?
> 
> > Just wondered,
> > Dan
> 
> I'm talking about scrolling through long pages and zooming in and out,
> things Firefox on Windows handles with no effort.

I'll just comment that I have no performance problems with FF on F10
x86_64, except that it can take a while to start up and has sometimes
been known to suck cpu (possibly the Java plugin is doing this in my
case). This is KDE 4.1, Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB of RAM (but it was the
same with 2GB) and onboard Intel video. I don't use Compiz. I do use
AdBlock, Flashblock and NoScript.

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