On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 19:28 +0100, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > The problems with FireFox "beeing slow" has two different reaons: > > 1.) FireFox UI is slow / Scrolling is slow: > Your video driver does not accalerated XRender well, or is slow for > other reaons. (While scrolling and running top, is FireFox eating all > the CPU or Xorg?) > FireFox just sends drawing commands to the X-Server, if the drivers > are broken its not FireFox fault. > > 2.) FireFox takes long to load / close: > FireFox does exactly the same on Windows as well as on Linux, but Ext3 > completly dies when FireFox issues fflush commands to make sure all > files have been written appropriate. 3) Firefox is a memory hog. Version 3.1x is supposed to fix this problem. Its in beta 2 right now. Yesterday I was doing some online buying/investigating whereby I had 8+ tabs open with a bunch of product images on each tab page. Firefox outright stalled if I opened one too many. It would become totally unresponsive for 20 to 60 seconds at times. For the fun of it, I opened the same 8 tabs with Konqueror and it didn't bat an eye. For the record, I am running a T8300 processor with 4 GB of RAM. Luckily I don't do this sort of thing very often. I have high hopes that Firefox 3.1 will be better in this regard. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
