On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > Sorry to hijack this thread but the performance of Firefox 3.0beta5 > has been painful to say the least - I haven't seen the same sort of > performance issues as I did with 2.0.14 - oh, and for some reason > Flash seems to be a major lag creating performance killer - or is > that just normal for Flash on *NIX?
What sort of performace problems are you seeing? Is it possible that since this is Beta software it has many internal diagnostics and validation logic enabled in order to try to find any inconsistencies? If so, that would make it slower. The other issue is of course that almost every major software release is slower than the one that came before. The number of necessary shared libraries tends to multiply like Gerbils since everyone wants their small contribution (requiring another huge library) to be included. Some might call this the "Microsoft domino effect". If you can create a debug build, I expect that 'spot' would be able to identify the offending code which makes Mozilla slow. It was spot-on for my own application. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
