I have also had problems with Firefox performance with OpenBSD (it's not a speed demon with Linux or FreeBSD, but it is faster on those systems). And I haven't found Chromium to be a good alternative -- too many crashes and "Oh, snap"s.
But my experience with Firefox is that the problem is easily solved: install the Noscript plugin (RequestPolicy isn't a bad idea either). Noscript gives you finer-grained control over when to allow javascript than about:config does. And I think it is clear that javascript is the problem, compounded by Firefox' scheduling tabs itself, rather than creating a process for each and letting the system scheduler do its job. I can well believe that there is a performance/security tradeoff, as Ted Unangst mentioned, and I much prefer the OpenBSD approach of not giving in to the temptation to compromise security to quiet the performance complaints, especially given that there is another way to manage this problem (which has at its core, in my opinion, the overuse of javascript; there seems to be a pattern in the human condition of coming up with good inventions and then misusing them, e.g., the cell-phone, which has become a bodily appendage for too many; I'll spare you the rest of my rant on this topic). On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Edgar Pettijohn <ed...@pettijohn-web.com> wrote: > I don't have any problems with Firefox on -current with Fvwm2. I switched to > Fvwm because Xfce was getting unmanageable. After about a week when I got my > config just right it is much easier and faster than Xfce just not as pretty. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Apr 18, 2016, at 3:13 PM, Daniel Boyd <dan...@boydemail.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks -- I will give xombrero a shot. Definitely need javascript support >> as I am currently composing this in Gmail and do quite a bit of >> javscript-based web development :) >> >>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 1:31 PM, <arrowscr...@mail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I think the problem is with firefox itself. >>> tedu@ wrote a post about this: >>> http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/firefox-vs-rthreads >>> >>> Since the code is so bloated, no one will ever waste time trying to fix >>> all the issues. Just switch to some other browser, there's plenty of >>> options. >>> I'm using Links 2.12 on -stable and it works fine for my needs. But >>> there's also Xombrero if you need javascript support.
