On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have been using the Fedora provided builds since F7. Mozilla's upstream linux builds are materially different that what we ship. I believe the Mozilla builds build in some libraries statically and maybe some other compile time differences like pango support. What would be fruitful is doing a comparison for specific tasks firefox tasks using different firefox builds. Mozilla windows build on native windows. Mozilla windows build under wine running in Fedora. Mozilla linux build running in Fedora. Fedora linux build running in Fedora with pango support turned off. The Fedora Firefox version has a several language packs installed by default. Does the Mozilla build have those as by default as well? Could there be a rendering slow down due to that? I don't know. Thats why I want you to test the Mozilla builds running of Fedora. If you are going to do it, try to formalize the methodology so that you are doing the same tasks in the same order from the moment the first firefox window appears. Also to make sure there isn't some screwing library caching going on. Do full reboots between tests to ensure library caches are cleared. > * switching between tabs > * zooming (I mean _really_ slow) > * loading new pages often blocks the entire browser > * reloading often (again, I do web work) > * even basic loading of pages (is slower than other machines on the > same network) > If there are spefic tests that one would like me to do, I'll be happy > to do them. It just seems unhelpful for me to file a bugzilla issue > that "firefox is slow". I don't know how to do accurate computer based timing on any of these firefox operations. But if you are talking about human perceptual differences on the order of seconds, it might be enough to screencast your scripted set of actions so people can see the time differences in the context of your task sequence methodology. If the biggest differences are between windows and linux firefox builds that says its something we can drive into Mozilla discussion. If the biggest difference is between the Mozilla and Fedora builds, that's something we'll have to bring to the attention of our maintainer. -jef -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
