I've been testing Firefox 3 on recent Nevada sparc builds on a SB1500. The performance is really awful. It can take a couple of minutes to load an expensive web page like cnn or yahoo. During that period the cpu sits at 100%. Once the page finishes loading CPU goes way down.
Surprisingly, the Sol10 contributed firefox port runs quite a bit better on Nevada then the contributed native port, but is still slow. The Sol10 port runs fine on Sol 10 on the same hardware. This is on a SB1500 with 2GB of ram, now on snv-93, but similar results on earlier builds.The Xserver is Xsun on either Sol 10 or 11, and the fb is an XVR100. The Sol10 contributed firefox 3 build comes bundled with several libraries that replace ones too out of date on Sol10. When I run this on Nevada I'm getting those libraries rather than the ones that come with Nevada. Since it runs a good deal faster, I have to guess that there is some issue with the corresponding Nevada libraries. Since its even faster when it runs on Sol10, that could be because of the additional libraries not bundled with the contributed firefox. Any thoughts? Is it the libraries or something else? This message posted from opensolaris.org
