Scott Rotondo wrote: > Jason King wrote: > >> Even worse than that, even on a Ferrari 4000 2ghz w/ 1gb ram, starting >> with around sxce b98, the desktop in general seem to be suffering from >> a critical performance regression, FF3 seems to be the worst in this >> respect. I've seen systems where actual swapping (not paging) are >> more responsive (I'm not kidding), yet none of the usual tools >> (vmstat, prstat, mpstat, etc.) show anything amiss. As I have more >> time to dig into it, I might be able to provide actual actionable >> issues, but first I was at least going to get to b101 and see if it >> still is having the issue. >> > > I'd be surprised if a later build of Solaris makes any difference. From > what I've seen, FF3 is unbelievably slow everywhere, even on Windows. > > Scott > > It doesn't leak as much but does use more CPU idling once you hit over 10 tabs, especially with Javascript and Flash content. Flash plugin is one of the main problems on all systems... I think parts of Firefox on Windows are still built using Cygwin. The most native version (Fitting the tools and environment) would be Linux/X11. I really blame XUL for most of the complexity problems. Use Safari or Opera for a bit (Ignoring memory/caching statistics) and they certainly feel much faster over a long session. Feature creep has totally killed Firefox just as Mozilla (Suite).
James
