On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Christopher Montgomery
<xiphmont(a)gmail.com> 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.