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

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 13:41 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Firefox Faster In Wine Than Native (was Re: Firefox Running 
> Slow in Linux)
> From: Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Date: 02/13/2009 12:43 PM
> 
> > On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 12:08 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >> So apparently I wasn't just imagining that Firefox on Linux/Fedora is
> >> stupidly slow. Firefox is actually faster in Wine that on Linux
> >> instead.
> > 
> > Have you tried it in Wine on your machine? Is it in fact better?
> > 
> > poc
> > 
> 
> Patrick, Jeff,
> 
> This same posting was on the fedora-test list first[1] and I've run my 
> own tests. I suggest you do your own. Fedora Firefox is sloooooow.

I already ran the V8 test (I'm on fedora-test too). Agreed that the
numbers are lower than I'd like, however this test only measures
Javascript performance. Arthur's complaint is about a lot of other stuff
too.

poc