Jim Cornette wrote: : Dean S. Messing wrote: : > I have a strange mozilla problem. : > : > When I go to <www.adobe.com> on my FC5 machine (running mozilla 1.7.13) : > it takes forever and a day to render the page. I've tried it with : > plugins installed (in particular flash and java) and with no plugins : > at all. : > : > gkrellm says that the bitrate is piddling: a few KB/s (like 4 or 5) : > for many seconds. : > : > On an older mandrake machine running Mozilla 1.7.2 that sits right : > next to the FC5 machine and on the same hub, the rendering is : > fast. And I see a corresponding speedup of the bits coming in. : > gkrellm shows the rate at around 200KB/s for a second or two. : > : > On the other hand the FC5 machine seems to be able to download large : > files via mozilla quite well. I see data rates of 200KB/s or more. : > And, furthermore, I don't have any other network slowness on the : > machine. : > : > I'm completely stumped. What could this be? : > : > Dean : > : : Mozilla is not maintained as well as before, it will not be included : with FC6. However, there is seamonkey available in fedora-extras which : keeps your same bookmarks and your same mail settings. Either : application will see the same profile. : : I have both mozilla and seamonkey installed. I used mozilla for some : task and its rendering of web pages was pretty poor in comparison to : seamonkey. You might get better behavior with seamonkey. Nothing should : be lost with having both available for comparison and choice. The : www.adobe.com page seemed to work fine with my tests using seamonkey. Thanks Jim. I've seen seamonkey mentioned on this list a couple of times recently but had no idea what it was. By the bye, I tried both Firefox and Konqueror on the Adobe site and had the same problems. Interstingly, IE w/in XP (running under VMware) on the FC5 machine pulled the data in at 200 MB/s and rendered almost instantly. Seems like the Adobe site is linux un-friendly. When under Mozilla, the page finally comes up, the dropdown menus end up going _behind_ the Flash advert. so you can't see half the menu items! Will try seamonkey tomorrow, though I'm so used to Mozilla that I hate to move away from it. Dean
