On 8/21/05, Raman Gupta <rocketraman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Bob Goodwin wrote: > > Thomas Taylor wrote: > >> On Sunday 21 August 2005 09:48, Marius Andreiana wrote: > >>> On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 20:10 -0400, Raman Gupta wrote: > >>>> The firefox on my fully updated Fedora Core 4 box renders many larger > >>>> pages very slowly. During the page rendering, Firefox "hangs" > >>>> completely. A good test page is: > >>>> > >>>> http://scragz.com/tech/mozilla/test-rendering-time.php > >>>> > >>> > >>> Thanks for the analysis. I've got 68 seconds on FC4 updated. > >>> > >> > >> For me it was 7.34 seconds. Using firefox 1.0.4. > >> What hardware do you have? Video card, motherboard, cpu & speed, etc. > >> Does your video card use acceleration? If so, is it turned on? > > You are using 1.0.4, not 1.0.6? > > >> Tom > >> > > 101.065 using Firefox 1.0.6 and the worlds worst ISP, ATT Worldnet > > dial-up. > > The reports so far seem to be pretty consistent that people who are > using 1.0.4 have reasonable render times. People who are using 1.0.6 > from Fedora have horrible render times. [snip] Well, this is an interesting data point: Fedora Core 4 x86_64 on Athlon 64 2.0 GHz (3200+) firefox-1.0.6-1.1.fc4.i386 (so it's 32-bit firefox) render time ~7 or 8 sec For comparison, a 64-bit browser: mozilla-1.7.10-1.5.1.x86_64 render time ~3 to ~5 sec Jonathan
