On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 02:59:26PM -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote: > Marcus Hartig wrote: > >Gawain Lynch wrote: > > > > > For those of us that want to use Firefox 2 to browse on FC6 without > > > having to rebuild half of the system, I have *hacked* up a quick > > > solution that allows a parallel install of FF2 along side FC6's 1.5x. > > > >I've tried the brandnew Firefox 2.0 Release parallel to 1.5.0.7 from: > > > >http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0/ > > > >Very fast rendering with the 2.0 version. Faster as with Fedora > >1.5.0.7-7.fc6. Resizing windows and web rendering is wonderful faaaaast. > > The upstream builds disable a few key features that we enable, and they > do a static build instead of linking everything dynamically. Comparing > Fedora builds to upstream builds is not fair at all. Besides, I've run > the two. It's not really that much faster. The overhead in the Fedora > packages is primarily because we install a bunch of langpacks. Well, i tried this 2.0 version and found 2.0 does not use all cpu power when several animated images are in a webpage as in the 1.5 case (see reports from a couple of weeks ago). I'll created bugzilla 211904. -Marcel -- ======-------- Marcel J.E. Mol MESA Consulting B.V. =======--------- ph. +31-(0)6-54724868 P.O. Box 112 =======--------- marcel@xxxxxxx 2630 AC Nootdorp __==== www.mesa.nl ---____U_n_i_x______I_n_t_e_r_n_e_t____ The Netherlands ____ They couldn't think of a number, Linux user 1148 -- counter.li.org so they gave me a name! -- Rupert Hine -- www.ruperthine.com -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
