Slow page rendering with Firefox

[Jonathan Berry]

On 8/21/05, Raman Gupta <rocketraman at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Bob Goodwin wrote:
> > Thomas Taylor wrote:
> >> On Sunday 21 August 2005 09:48, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 20:10 -0400, Raman Gupta wrote:
> >>>> The firefox on my fully updated Fedora Core 4 box renders many larger
> >>>> pages very slowly. During the page rendering, Firefox "hangs"
> >>>> completely. A good test page is:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://scragz.com/tech/mozilla/test-rendering-time.php
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for the analysis. I've got 68 seconds on FC4 updated.
> >>>
> >>
> >> For me it was 7.34 seconds.  Using firefox 1.0.4.
> >> What hardware do you have?  Video card, motherboard, cpu & speed, etc.
> >> Does your video card use acceleration?  If so, is it turned on?
> 
> You are using 1.0.4, not 1.0.6?
> 
> >> Tom
> >>
> > 101.065  using Firefox 1.0.6 and the worlds worst ISP, ATT Worldnet
> > dial-up.
> 
> The reports so far seem to be pretty consistent that people who are
> using 1.0.4 have reasonable render times. People who are using 1.0.6
> from Fedora have horrible render times.
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Well, this is an interesting data point:
Fedora Core 4 x86_64 on Athlon 64 2.0 GHz (3200+)
firefox-1.0.6-1.1.fc4.i386 (so it's 32-bit firefox)
render time ~7 or 8 sec

For comparison, a 64-bit browser:
mozilla-1.7.10-1.5.1.x86_64
render time ~3 to ~5 sec

Jonathan