Re: Any hope for... speeeeeed ?

Vincent NICOLAS wrote:
> 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).

I think you should try Camino or Safari if you can't bear the speed of 
it in your Mac.


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