On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 19:40 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > 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.
More along the lines of, when YouTube loads, the animation is very jaggy; when videos play, the video play back (even will fully downloaded) is jaggy and out of sink. I'm wondering if it is my graphics card, because I have enough memory (2.5GB) and the CPU should be more than powerful enoug (3.2Ghz P4). Matthew
