On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 15:02 -0500, Marc Ferguson wrote: >> Hi, > >> I know I'll probably get hazed by this already saturated question, but >> I haven't found any solid answers to my issue from the archives. I'm >> running Fedora 10 x86_64 and loving the "adventure" of running an 64 >> bit system. I'm also running Firefox 3.0.x (x86_64), but I've noticed >> that it's not very smooth compared to it running on a Windows machine >> and I'm little confused why. > > Couple things to look out for. > > Plugins. Turn off all your plugins and retest. There are some that > cause serious performance degradation. Find the guilty party and decide > if it's work it. Out of the box it is slow, so unless Fedora is adding plugins by default, it is slow by default. > Scripts. God's be damned scripts. CNN is probably one of the WORST > for this. I have to use noscript to keep CNN from nuking my performance > due to the script invoking flash cruft that ends up invoking the > npviewer.bin performance sink. Such a problem would affect Firefox cross platform, it's only this slow on Linux. >> It's more the scroll bar than anything else. It's something small, >> but it's ruining the surfing experience and I'm a little embarrassed >> to let other people use it on my desktop. I don't want to give Linux >> a bad name and these folks are primarily Windows/MAC users. So; their >> experience with using Firefox on my system is a tainted one. > > Haven't seen that. What distro? What kernel? What pages? What > system? Every i386 version I've tried since F7. All non trivial pages, seemingly with or without Flash. If F7, I couldn't even use Bugzilla's guided mode with Firefox/Linux. -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
