Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3100 mails)

[Carl Hartung <suselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 08 March 2006 08:50, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> Can anyone shed any light on the original posters problem as to why this
> browser is so sluggish?

The nature of his complaint was so general that I chose not to respond 
earlier. I don't waste much time comparing which is faster on what machine 
with which distribution or OS... I am more concerned that my Linux system is 
consistent and stable and unobtrusive to my work.

If a program gets inordinately slow, I'll investigate. My interpretation... on 
my own system... is Firefox gets slower to load as functionalities are added. 
I've now got a 'kazillion' functions bolted into it and can do an 
extraordinary number of things from inside the browser. I don't think this 
behavior is unusual, since Firefox must load, first, then verify the 
integrity of the installed plug-ins and extensions before loading them.

If he comes back with a specific scenario, like "I installed xyz.xpt and now 
Firefox hangs every time I visit www.blahblah.com" then this gives us 
something more to work with. But without knowing his technical competency and 
capacity to maintain a stable Linux system and sort real problems out, it's 
just too hard to judge if his observations describe a real or subjective 
problem.

regards,

Carl