Peter Robinson wrote: > I have a similar problem with no flash (don't even have it installed)
where for some sites firefox cpu usage will go through the roof. The site I find this happens the most often is actually the Fedora downloads page where you have a listing for the entire distro seems to just kill firefox but if you go to a mirror its OK rather annoying since I'm often behind a firewall with no ftp access.
(eg http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/
)
This is caused by the large amount of content being rendered in a <pre>. If we turn on IndexOptions HTMLTable, we can probably get much better performance out of the browser here. Even older browsers such as lynx, w3m, links, etc handle tables fine, AFAIK.
Still Firefox from Fedora Core 3 compared to mozilla nightly downloaded from mozilla.org is about 2x slower loading this page:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050326 - about 9 seconds
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Firefox/1.0.2 Fedora/1.0.2-1.3.1 - about 19 seconds
Is such a difference expected?
Am I comparing apples to oranges (very recent nightly build vs. stable release/mozilla vs. firfox)?
Regards, Dariusz
