Firefox 3 on Windows is built by VC8 in Linux-like environment. But I don't think Firefox Linux/X11 is more native than Firefox Windows.
Ginn On Nov 1, 2008, at 2:10 AM, James Cornell wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org -------- Ginn Chen Software Engineer, Browser Team Sun Microsystems, Inc. Phone: x82869 / +86-10-62673869 Fax: +86-10-62780969
