On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 21:10 -0400, William W. Austin wrote:
> Problem 1: firefox CRAWLS. Mozilla, galeon, epiphany and konqueror ALL
> load web pages, images, etc. far faster. Time comparison for loading a
> local web page (fairly straightforward - text and jpeg images mixed -
> but rather large) takes under a second with any of the other browsers,
> and takes over 20 seconds with firefox. If I boot back to FC4 and run
> 1.0.8.1-1.fc4 it runs essentially the same speed as the other browsers.
> I collect astronomy images (primarily very large tiff images), and the
> download time delays are short with the other browsers (FC5) but often
> more than 15 seconds BEFORE the download starts with firefox. If I
> boot back to FC4, the problem goes away.
>
> The ONLY major difference is that I went ahead and enabled selinux on
> the machine when installing FC5, whereas in FC4 I did not (I also have
> a dedicated firwall box which theoretically eliminates the need for
> selunx, but I wanted to try it).
I see something similar on FC4, though I do have SELinux enabled. It's
set for enforcing on this machine, differently on others, but I haven't
paid attention to how well Firefox is running on them. I notice various
configurable things that make Firefox sluggish:
* The number of entries left in the downloads window
* Long history
* Large cache
* RSS bookmarks
Firefox is generally okay, but open a few tabs and it crawls. The above
make it slower to start and use.
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