On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Daniel B. Thurman <dant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Marc Ferguson wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I know I'll probably get hazed by this already saturated question, but I >> haven't found any solid answers to my issue from the archives. I'm running >> Fedora 10 x86_64 and loving the "adventure" of running an 64 bit system. >> I'm also running Firefox 3.0.x (x86_64), but I've noticed that it's not >> very smooth compared to it running on a Windows machine and I'm little >> confused why. >> >> It's more the scroll bar than anything else. It's something small, but >> it's ruining the surfing experience and I'm a little embarrassed to let >> other people use it on my desktop. I don't want to give Linux a bad name >> and these folks are primarily Windows/MAC users. So; their experience with >> using Firefox on my system is a tainted one. >> >> I've tried running Swiftfox, but I haven't gotten it to load (that's >> another issue) so I'm kind of stuck with Firefox. >> >> -- >> Marc F. >> >> www.fergytech.com <http://www.fergytech.com> >> Registered Linux User: #410978 >> >> "When life gives me lemons... I make Linuxaide, hmm good stuff!" -Marc F. > > This is probably a different situation, but for me, I discovered just > how much browsers can be greatly slowed down if there are slow/bad > DNS server entries. Make sure that *all* of your DNS server entries > are good in the /etc/resolv.conf file (can be set with System-> > Administration->Network (DNS tab)). The odd thing is, only the > browsers that were very slow, but everything else seemed to work > fine. You can check FF against your local web-server just to make > sure it is not a DNS resolver issue or the Internet infrastructure. > > For me, FF works well with: > > Fedora release 9 (Sulphur) > Kernel 2.6.27.9-73.fc9.i686 i686 > Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz > CPUs: 2 > 2017MB RAM One really shouldn't need a dual core processor to get Firefox to work well. It's supposed to just be a browser. With that much horse power, you should be rendering faster than your NIC can pull them in > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines