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

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 6:53 PM, gperry<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

Do you have any extensions installed? Do you use a different theme
than the default one?
What cpu speed do you have?

Regards,
Martijn

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