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It's even worse on Linux. FF performance on Ubuntu/Gnome was pretty bad. Starting up, scrolling and even window resizing made me feel like I was using a Pentium
by old-gregg 17y ago
It's even worse on Linux. FF performance on Ubuntu/Gnome was pretty bad. Starting up, scrolling and even window resizing made me feel like I was using a Pentium II. I want back to OSX+Safari. I only fire up FF when I need Firebug.
On the other hand, FF on Windows is blazing fast. So I doubt it's just XUL.
Edit: wow, they did Safari-like pixel-precise touchpad scrolling (OSX). Very nice.
- w1ntermute 17y agoSame here, I've been running the Firefox 3.5 RC's on my Gentoo x86 system for a few days now, and it just keeps crashing, at least once every 5 minutes. Opera, even the 10.00 Unite Alpha (which is what I'm using), is just so much faster and stable.
- patcito 17y agoI've been using Firefox 3.5 and it's fast and hasn't crashed at all unlike Opera which crashed every once in a while here on Ubuntu Karmic.
- f00 17y agoI haven't worked in a Windows-based environment in a while, but I do recall in the Fx 2.x days that it was significantly faster on Windows. Perhaps this is just a case of Mozilla catering to the largest audience. If that's the case, then I applaud the effort, as getting the masses moved from IE[6/7/8] to Firefox 3.5 is certainly a more valuable effort than besting Safari performance on Mac OS X. There's just a big part of me that hopes they can achieve both. :-)
- aceofspades19 17y agoI've been running firefox 3.5 release candidates for the past couple weeks, and its been pretty fast and it hasn't crashed at all
- tc 17y agoI run FF on Debian (iceweasel), and it is acceptably snappy, but there is a bit of a trick to this: 1. Every extension you add seems to decrease performance by 30-50% (rough numbers) [1]. So live with a bare essential set of extensions. For me that is Firebug and FlashBlock. 2. Keeping very many bookmarks or history items seems to destroy performance, particularly with the "awesome bar." I disable history completely and have it clear everything else on browser close. Before I settled on this FF usage technique, FF would degrade in performance over the course of months as it built up data in the profile. Eventually it would become unusable [2] until I deleted the profile and started fresh. Now I just prevent it from building up any data. [1] As much as I used to like this extension, my experience has been that ForecastFox in particular hammers browser performance. [2] It would take seconds, sometimes 10 or more, to open a new tab to about:blank. With this technique though, I currently have ~ 25 tabs open, and new tab creation is instantaneous.
- quoderat 17y agoOr you could just run Firefox completely in RAM in Linux, as I do: http://webupd8.blogspot.com/2009/05/speed-up-firefox-by-mounting-profile-in.html http://webupd8.blogspot.com/2009/05/speed-up-firefox-by-moun... It's fairly easy. There's a guide just for Ubuntu, too: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=991205 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=991205
- smanek 17y agoI wish the OS was smart enough to do this automatically. I have 16GB of RAM on my workstation, and rarely use more than 8GB.
- WalterGR 17y ago> Keeping very many bookmarks or history items seems to destroy performance... Amen to that. I have ~12,000 bookmarks, and FF3 on Windows takes ~10 seconds to both start up and shut down.
- alexyim 17y agoWhy would you have that many bookmarks? Trying to make search engines obsolete?
- alexvasi 17y agohttp://www.tuxradar.com/content/browser-benchmarks-2-even-wine-beats-linux-firefox http://www.tuxradar.com/content/browser-benchmarks-2-even-wi...