Firefox Faster In Wine Than Native (was Re: Firefox Running Slow in Linux)

Nataraj incoming-fedora-list at rjl.com
Sun Feb 15 21:24:24 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 10:32 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 16:32 -0800, Nataraj wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 15:08 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Nataraj <incoming-fedora-list at rjl.com> wrote:
> > > > Does anyone else see unreasonable usage of CPU resources from Firefox?
> > > 
> > > Do you have flash installed?  Some sites that have embedded flash
> > > video or animations that start on their own will cause my firefox to
> > > chew cpu.
> > > 
> > > -jef
> > > 
> > 
> > I think there are a lot of websites with flash content.  I don't know
> > weather this problem with flash exists under windows or not, but it
> > certainly would contribute to giving users the perception that firefox
> > is slow under linux.
> > 
> > I would like to be able to leave a web browser window open and then go
> > off and type an email message and perhaps go off and respond to another
> > issue when a user calls me, without having to exit from my web browser
> > because it's chewing up all my CPU so I can't do anything else.
> 
> Use FlashBlock and/or NoScript to block Flash from running except when
> you want to see it.
> 
> However I also get occasional cpu-sucking from FF, even though I have
> both the above add-ons installed. There seems to be a correlation with
> Java, but I haven't looked at it closely.
> 
> poc
> 

I will look at these plugins.  I have also been suspicious of Java.

Nataraj





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