Re: considering how slow and bloated every mozilla app is..

On 30/08/2009 16:15, Boris Zbarsky wrote:

> That said, do you have specific numbers/examples to support your
> "bloated" assertion?
FF is currently at 150meg, it'll 300 before long and I'll have to close. 
Those figures are normal for FF atm.
TB and Lightning are 160meg. Outlook is running along side it with the 
same imap accounts and remote calendars and it's just over 35meg (and 
it's way faster).


  For that matter, do you have specific issues that
> you describe as "slow"? A general "slow" is not an actionable item.
>
> -Boris
-Page laods are slow in FF, slower than even IE. Chrome and Opera make 
FF look like a joke.
-javascript performance is horrible
-When pages are loading, the rest of the interface is unresponsive. In 
fact is takes so much processor priority as too jam up the entire 
operating system.
-'complex' webpages jam up the browser, leading to slow scrolling and 
slow inteface. By 'complex' I mean a little bit of javascript or an 
image table with a few effects, or some text decoration here and there.

-It takes over 3 minutes for thunderbird and lightning to start up, and 
they are unresponsive during that time. remote calendars reload multiple 
times, windows will white out the window as it becomes un responsive 
(multiple times), cpu usage will get stuck at 50%+, it slows downs the 
rest of the OS, it's only in the last minute or so that it actually 
starts pulling down email.
-after it's loaded, lightning is still painfully slow. every page scroll 
requires multiple, intensive calendar redraws/refreshs
-despite having spent so long starting up, it still doesn't pull down 
rss feeds at start up, instead leaving it 5-10minutes after startup.


The list goes on. And they are all obvious and well known ones. The fact 
you'd even have to ask means that, if you are a developer, you are a 
badly out of touch one.

I read through these dev forums excepting to see performance being at 
the very top of the agenda, seeing as how firefox made it's name on 
being fast and it is now almost as slow as IE (and in some respects 
slower), but a cursory glance tells me that the devs are far more 
concerned with a fancy new UI.