-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ian Malone wrote: > taharka wrote: >> How do again, >> >> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 16:28 -0200, Clodoaldo wrote: >>> 2006/11/30, Scott van Looy <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >>>> Today Clodoaldo did spake thusly: >>>> >>>>> 2006/11/30, taharka <res00vl8@xxxxxxxxxx>: >>>>>> How do, >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 15:28 -0200, Clodoaldo wrote: >>>>>>> 2006/11/30, Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx>: >>>>>>>> Okay, I've had this problem for a while and I'm beginning >>>>>>>> to wonder why. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Firefox sometimes responds very slowly, especially when >>>>>>>> rendering Wikipedia and a few other pages (mostly wikis >>>>>>>> actually). I don't mean connecting to the internet, I mean >>>>>>>> responding to the user; e.g. I run a mouse gestures >>>>>>>> extension which can become unusable with a couple >>>>>>>> of Wikipedia tabs open. Booting the same machine into >>>>>>>> Windows Me and running Firefox I don't have this problem. >>>>>>>> System is FC5, Athlon 1.3GHz, 1GB RAM, GeForce 3 Ti200 >>>>>>>> with Nvidia drivers. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> So: >>>>>>>> Does anyone else have this problem? >>>>>>> I have. Any site javascript intensive makes FF consume 100% CPU >>>>>>> for a >>>>>>> few seconds at each click. Gmail is one of them. >>>>>> So, how bout installing the noscript extension & enabling >>>>>> javascript for >>>>>> sites where it is absolutely necessary? >>>>>> >>>>> You are a genius. What a wonderful solution. I each site i just go to >>>>> Edit -> Preferences -> Content -> Enable JavaScript. And them wait for >>>>> each click or page scroll. I have a better one: Why not just use Opera >>>>> in instead of FF? This one is much better: If you have nothing worth >>>>> to say why don't you just shut up? >>>> Or, alternatively, why don't you bite the hand that helps you? >>>> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722/ >>> Could you elaborate on how that fixes FF slowness on javaScript sites? >>> To make it clear: I need Gmail *with* javaScript enabled. Blocking >>> javaScript is not a solution when javaScript is necessary or just nice >>> to have. >> >> I suggest you go to the link Scott provided you & read the documentation >> for that extension for yourself. If it's still unclear, there's a link >> to the authors site. His site will tell you anything you want to know >> regarding the noscript extension ;-) Plus, you can email him. >> > > I'd agree Clodoaldo's response wasn't really necessary, > however he's right that the JavaScript heavy sites tend > to be ones like Gmail that need it. I'm also not really > happy with use Konqueror/Opera/A Mac type answers because > I know FF on the same machine under windows works fine, > and I doubt that it's windows causing the difference. > > I've just tried the binary version of 1.5.0.8 from > Mozilla and it won't run (seemingly library problems), > maybe I'll give 2.0 a go. Get the Firefox 2.0 from Mozilla. It is much improved over 1.5.0.8 and the Mozilla Firefox runs and displays much faster than the Fedora rpms. After you have installed Firefox run it from a terminal window and it will tell you what compat library file it is missing. yum what provides <name> will tell you the exact name of the compat library package that you need to install. - -- David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) iD8DBQFFb1t8rItTyWRhT1YRAsqvAKClFkHCC5IOgyfRlWAggsGWQ0J90QCfS9lu pxcErzUr8hG2l8LgxOv8gyE= =No0d -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
