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/...
)
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.
I just quickly hacked together a script and converted the HTML to use tables. The
difference is actually very noticable:
http://people.redhat.com/caillon/ftp-current.html
vs.
http://people.redhat.com/caillon/ftp-tables.html
My script wasn't perfect, so it isn't as pretty as it could have been I guess, but
you get the idea.