On 6/5/2009 5:22 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 05:06:36PM -0400, David wrote: >> On 6/5/2009 4:25 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: >>> >>>> Hello list, >>>> >>>> All software has bugs. Some are known, and some are unknown. >>>> Fortunately with free/libre and open source software, we have the >>>> ability to diagnose and understand bugs. >>>> >>>> In advance of Fedora 11 release, of course everyone has been hard at >>>> work stomping out bugs, but there are still issues we know are not >>>> fixed in the release. For many of these we have workarounds. >>>> We've made a wiki page that records these bugs: >>>> >>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs >>> do any of those bugs refer to the fact that (at least for me) >>> firefox is still teeth-grindingly slow? i've mentioned this before >>> and i've tried everything i can think of to speed it up but, at this >>> point, it's utterly unusable. even sitting there, it perpetually >>> sucks up 100% of the CPU on a dual core system, while seamonkey will >>> happily sit there, idling along at about 0.8%. >>> >>> i'll give it another shot with F11 but, really, i can't believe how >>> utterly useless firefox is. >> >> First off Firefox in F11 is FF 3.5 beta 4. >> >> I have seen you mention this problem before today. And I have not seen >> any 'me too' replies. This must be a problem with your setup or system. >> >> Is this with *all* sites? Or just some? Surely not just one site? Give >> an example URL please. >> >> Do you have the same extensions installed in both Firefox and Seamonkey? >> >> Do you use Flash Block? If a site is blocked, the default, it can slow >> the site down as it fights to display. >> >> Another thing to look at is the 'languages' installed in Firefox by >> Fedora. You, I figure, speak English which is built in. Disable the many >> other languages. >> >> I have a couple of other ideas but start here. > > I tend to start by creating a new user account to see if the problem > persists there. If not, it's related to my account, which is somewhat > of a different situation than having a useless app. Another good suggestion. I agree. -- David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
