On 10/3/07, Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I recently asked about ways to benchmark Firefox[1] because of how > > slow I found Firefox to be on Fedora 7. It was almost unusably slow, > > prompting me to switch to Konqueror as much as possible. > > > > However I have found a short tutorial which after following the speed > > seems to at least be on par which my laptop (which has half the > > processing speed, and a slower, IDE hard drive, and slower memory) > > > > Assuming I haven't encountered some freak situation, it may be > > necessary to consider changing the default Firefox settings, one of > > which is IPV6 DNS. I have zero issues against IPV6 myself, but if it > > helps make Firefox useful, by all means. > > > > Does upstream think the default settings as provided in the vanilla > distribution should be adjusted as set forth in [2] ? If they don't, I > think we shouldn't either. > > > Again, if I can provide any objective metrics, please let me know. > > > > [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2007-September/msg00135.html > > [2] http://www.zolved.com/synapse/view_content/28106/How_to_speed_up_Mozilla_Firefox_on_Ubuntu > > > > Kind regards, > > Jeroen van Meeuwen > - -kanarip Fair enough, but the speed differences cannot be ignored. Nor is the fact that it makes Firefox (at least on Fedora) to seem very slow. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
