On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Christopher Montgomery <xiphmont@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It's because a) virtually everything is backed by a db today (firefox > is a pig because every keypress is firing off multiple database > queries I believe there's some work in Firefox 3.1 to make these queries asynchronous. The primary issue is the amount of I/O they're doing in the mainloop thread, which is always a big user experience mistake in desktop applications. -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list