Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:06:09 +0400 From: Mikhail Krutov <neko@takino.org> To: David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox is so slow Message-ID: <20130429100609.GA98537@takino.org> In-Reply-To: <CAO%2BPfDfrCrLs_jMWzu6Ki6gw4FavSXD67%2BG6bEAXfzVe5vwi1A@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAO%2BPfDfrCrLs_jMWzu6Ki6gw4FavSXD67%2BG6bEAXfzVe5vwi1A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:18:57AM +0200, David Demelier wrote: > Hi, Hi, > > I used to love firefox in the early days, when I started using Linux > around 2003-2004. It was so fast. Now it's just amazing how long does > it take to start. The ugly fact is that every browser is slow. Except for browsers like dillo, which are kind of outdated and incompatible with sh*tty "modern" web. Personally I use xxxterm as a 'firebugs' replacement (e.g. with support for html5 and other crap) or dillo as a web viewer. Works OK for me. > > On my machine : intel i3 540, 2G of RAM and FreeBSD 9.1 it takes > around 12 secondes to start. Is it so long for you too? > ~ 5 seconds on kinda sligthly better machine; ~ 0.1 seconds if I move ~/.mozilla to tmpfs (which is a kludge and which sucks) > What kind of bloat has been added so it's so big to start.. > > Regards, > > -- > Demelier David > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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