On 6/5/2009 5:22 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 05:06:36PM -0400, David wrote:
> On 6/5/2009 4:25 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>>
>>> Hello list,
>>>
>>> All software has bugs. Some are known, and some are unknown.
>>> Fortunately with free/libre and open source software, we have the
>>> ability to diagnose and understand bugs.
>>>
>>> In advance of Fedora 11 release, of course everyone has been hard at
>>> work stomping out bugs, but there are still issues we know are not
>>> fixed in the release. For many of these we have workarounds.
>>> We've made a wiki page that records these bugs:
>>>
>>>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs
>> do any of those bugs refer to the fact that (at least for me)
>> firefox is still teeth-grindingly slow? i've mentioned this before
>> and i've tried everything i can think of to speed it up but, at this
>> point, it's utterly unusable. even sitting there, it perpetually
>> sucks up 100% of the CPU on a dual core system, while seamonkey will
>> happily sit there, idling along at about 0.8%.
>>
>> i'll give it another shot with F11 but, really, i can't believe how
>> utterly useless firefox is.
>
> First off Firefox in F11 is FF 3.5 beta 4.
>
> I have seen you mention this problem before today. And I have not seen
> any 'me too' replies. This must be a problem with your setup or system.
>
> Is this with *all* sites? Or just some? Surely not just one site? Give
> an example URL please.
>
> Do you have the same extensions installed in both Firefox and Seamonkey?
>
> Do you use Flash Block? If a site is blocked, the default, it can slow
> the site down as it fights to display.
>
> Another thing to look at is the 'languages' installed in Firefox by
> Fedora. You, I figure, speak English which is built in. Disable the many
> other languages.
>
> I have a couple of other ideas but start here.
I tend to start by creating a new user account to see if the problem
persists there. If not, it's related to my account, which is somewhat
of a different situation than having a useless app.
Another good suggestion. I agree.
--
David