On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 05:06:36PM -0400, David wrote: > On 6/5/2009 4:25 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > > >> Hello list, > >> > >> All software has bugs. Some are known, and some are unknown. > >> Fortunately with free/libre and open source software, we have the > >> ability to diagnose and understand bugs. > >> > >> In advance of Fedora 11 release, of course everyone has been hard at > >> work stomping out bugs, but there are still issues we know are not > >> fixed in the release. For many of these we have workarounds. > >> We've made a wiki page that records these bugs: > >> > >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs > > > > do any of those bugs refer to the fact that (at least for me) > > firefox is still teeth-grindingly slow? i've mentioned this before > > and i've tried everything i can think of to speed it up but, at this > > point, it's utterly unusable. even sitting there, it perpetually > > sucks up 100% of the CPU on a dual core system, while seamonkey will > > happily sit there, idling along at about 0.8%. > > > > i'll give it another shot with F11 but, really, i can't believe how > > utterly useless firefox is. > > > First off Firefox in F11 is FF 3.5 beta 4. > > I have seen you mention this problem before today. And I have not seen > any 'me too' replies. This must be a problem with your setup or system. > > Is this with *all* sites? Or just some? Surely not just one site? Give > an example URL please. > > Do you have the same extensions installed in both Firefox and Seamonkey? > > Do you use Flash Block? If a site is blocked, the default, it can slow > the site down as it fights to display. > > Another thing to look at is the 'languages' installed in Firefox by > Fedora. You, I figure, speak English which is built in. Disable the many > other languages. > > I have a couple of other ideas but start here. I tend to start by creating a new user account to see if the problem persists there. If not, it's related to my account, which is somewhat of a different situation than having a useless app. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
