Re: Any hope for... speeeeeed ?

In article <[email protected]>,
 Javier Pedemonte <[email protected]> wrote:

> Vincent NICOLAS wrote:
> > Firefox is wonderful but still so sloooooooow on Mac Os X !
> 
> Could you provide some more info?  I use it everyday, and it seems 
> pretty speedy to me?  What machine and OS are you using?  What seems slow?

I have a G4 (450 upgraded in a 1.4 Ghz) witha Geforce 2 mx, 512Mo, 
Panther last update.

Firefox est slow with some sites (not all of them), in particular all 
thoses with lots of things to display.

The famous french news site macgeneration.com has a quite eavy page in 
the "actualités" section. This page has a very poor scrolling 
performance with my Mac. This same page in very speed on the PIII 600 of 
my father.

I have tried the X11 port of Firefox once : the speed is good too ! Many 
pages are slow compared to Safari or Opera, even if some are faster with 
Firefox (but they are rare to me).

So, clearly, firefox is NOT optimized on Mac Os X (native).

It is usable with my 1.4Ghz horsepower, but it was unbearably slow on 
the 450 Mhz.


In short terms : scrolling are slow on relatively big pages, but others 
thing are slow like mouse gesture extension (compared to a P4 2.6 Ghz).



-- 
Vincent Nicolas
En direct de Lyon
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