On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Agile Aspect <agile.aspect@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> >> 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. >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> I've tried running Swiftfox, but I haven't gotten it to load (that's >>> another issue) so I'm kind of stuck with Firefox. >>> >>> -- >>> Marc F. >>> >>> www.fergytech.com <http://www.fergytech.com> >>> Registered Linux User: #410978 >>> >>> "When life gives me lemons... I make Linuxaide, hmm good stuff!" -Marc F. >> >> This is probably a different situation, but for me, I discovered just >> how much browsers can be greatly slowed down if there are slow/bad >> DNS server entries. Make sure that *all* of your DNS server entries >> are good in the /etc/resolv.conf file (can be set with System-> >> Administration->Network (DNS tab)). The odd thing is, only the >> browsers that were very slow, but everything else seemed to work >> fine. You can check FF against your local web-server just to make >> sure it is not a DNS resolver issue or the Internet infrastructure. >> >> For me, FF works well with: >> >> Fedora release 9 (Sulphur) >> Kernel 2.6.27.9-73.fc9.i686 i686 >> Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz >> CPUs: 2 >> 2017MB RAM >> >> ... and my daughter's system, also an F9 with a different >> and faster Intel Motherboard, Duo-Core, 2GB RAM >> >> FWIW, >> Dan >> > > When I step on the DHCP generated /etc/resolv.conf from > Comast with one using my Wireless router as my primary > resolver, the performance of Firefox jumps dramatically. > > Both the router and the DHCP generated /etc/resolv.conf > have the same DNS server entries. > > DNS should be the first item to be checked. My problem isn't how fast Firefox is getting the page, it's how slow it is rendering them. -- 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
