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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Alternative Operating Systems => Topic started by: TheMagicM on May 17, 2005, 03:08:15 AM
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there was a thread here that showed how to speed up firefox so I did it.. but its still slow to retrieve sites.. my sons Windows 2k box beat going to AO by 13 seconds.. any clues as to why? oh..runnin on SuSE 9.2
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there was a thread here that showed how to speed up firefox so I did it..
Yeah, so did I. They actually significantly HURT performance of Firefox 1.0.4 for me. (The pipelining was causing the initial HTML load to time out and stall, so I disabled "network.http.pipelining.firstrequest", which fixed that problem, but I was still getting images that would hang half-way. So I disabled all pipelining options, which fixed the problem, but then Firefox stopped exiting cleanly when I closed it. [the window would close, but firefox.exe would still be running, and I couldn't load another copy until I did an "End Task" on the first one.])
So I just backed up by bookmarks.htm and blasted my profile and started over with defaults plus my own preferences. Much better luck, so far.
Why going to AO takes 13 seconds is beyond me, though. Are you on dial-up? Do you have something configured horribly wrong in your TCP/IP stack? AO takes about 3 seconds total on both IE and Firefox here. No appreciable difference between the two. And no appreciable difference between visiting in WinXP vs Linux (Mandrake 10), other than the 2d Windows drivers for my video card are faster and more mature than the drivers/XFree.org for Mandrake, so Windows scrolls nicer.
And IE scrolls faster than FF, which is especially noticible if you run into a page with those @)%*@#(@_'ing Flash ads all over it. Of course, I usually try to avoid such pages at all costs, so that doesn't really matter to me. It's a trade-off I happily take for a browser that obeys what *I* want it to do. :-)
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Don't know if it will speed things up, but 1.0.4 is the latest
that fixes the security bugs left in the older versions.
C Snyder
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Give us some idea of the hardware differential between the systems, for one.
IE "should" always be faster -- namely, there's no reason for it to be slower with the level of integration Microsoft allows it -- but 13 seconds is a bit nasty, and could probably be improved.
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linux box is Suse 9.2 running on a 2.x ghz machine, 512megs ram, Win2k box is a 900mhz machine 384megs ram, broadband connection. both on a router on a 5 user network.
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Hum,
on dial up my 1.0.4 firefox downloads the page in less than 3 sec...with the hacks....but it’s on an xp machine...
Sounds like the linux implementations of the browser doesn’t like those hacks.
Or you have a corrupt install of the browser.
I would do a clean install just to make sure.
(imho, even without the tweaks, it’s safer with firefox)
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Using SuSE 9.1 myself. Can't say I have any problems with Firefox or T-Bird for that matter.
Mozilla runs without a hitch. Corrupt installation or bad settings sounds favorite. Its not like you have old hardware!
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rm -f -r ~/.mozilla
then install v1.04 of firefox using yast or get it from mozilla.org
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On the PC for 32 bit Firefox we have something called FIRETUNE from totalidea.com. I am not sure if they make a firetune for SuSE..
However, myself I am running the 64 bit version of firefox 1.0 for Windows XP x64 edition, and let's just say it's fast as Blazes...