FF 3 Lag

[marc]

Frank McCormick said:

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> On Tue, 12 May 2009 21:09:05 +0000 (UTC) marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:
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>> Anthony Gardner said:
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>> > Is anyone else experiencing a terrible lag in FF?
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>> Yup, same machine, dual boot with XP, and FF is very, very laggy by
>> comparison to the other OS.
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>> FF is a bit naff in Linux, imo. And we don't even have Chrome, which is
>> m- i-l-e-s faster - but no Adblock, surprise, so ugly too.
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>    I've been running the pre-pre-pre-pre-alpha version of
> Chromium (it's splash says "It's ‘Chromium’, not ‘Google Chrome’) and it
> is amazingly quick. It's far from complete (it does have bookmarks) and
> works well on 75% of sites I visit (even my banking site). If it stays
> fast when it is complete...FF will have a formidable competitor!

Yup, we brought it online for an inhouse sales app the telesales folk 
were using and it got major plaudits. It has some funky JavaScript 
issues, but it's getting better.

> And yes, I find FF lags on my Intrepid machine...but nothing I can't
> deal with.

I use mouse gestures pretty much exclusively and it's like using an old 
286 with a 40Mb disk. It's really, really terrible. There's no excuse for 
it.

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Best,
Marc