On 09/22/2010 12:23 AM, Beau Henderson wrote: > On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: >> >>> I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but Firefox in Linux >>> has always been pretty bad in general for me. Slow UI, unusable in NX >>> (constant screen redraws; Thunderbird does the same thing), network >>> stalling for MINUTES at a time, slow to load, etc. Other browsers on >>> the same machine don't suffer any of these problems. I don't use >>> Firefox as my primary browser because it is so flaky. >> >> That's odd, because on this newish i5 box, which is suffering really >> severe responsiveness problems otherwise, FF responds to my commands >> smartly. >> > > Firefox for windows is compiled with PGO via ICC which apparently > improves performance quite a bit. I believe there are issues when > firefox is compiled with GCC via PGO and in any case, there is no > support for PGO building of Firefox @ gentoo afaik. I wish I had the > time and knowledge to whip up an ebuild that could do the magic to > test it out tho. > > Any takers ? :P > You really think that wood change the unstable problem?
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