On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson <b...@thehenderson.com>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 > > Uh, what are PGO and ICC?? I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on Ubuntu let alone Vista, which makes me take your suggestion about build parameters seriously. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
