any thoughts on why firefox is still nad-grindingly slow?

Bill Crawford billcrawford1970 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 24 10:17:45 UTC 2009


On Friday 24 April 2009 11:08:15 Riku Seppälä wrote:
> Christopher Beland wrote:
> > Weren't you having video driver issues?
> >
> > On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 05:41 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >> seriously, firefox is still entirely unusable.  i've added the
> >> noscript plugin to filter out junk and yet, even scrolling on a web
> >> page is painful.
> >>
> >>   with seamonkey, scrolling is
> >>
> >>   *scroll* *scroll* *scroll* ...
> >>
> >> with firefox, it's
> >>
> >>   *scroll*  wait wait wait *scroll* wait wait wait *scroll* ...
> >>
> >> i can't be the only person seeing this, and i can't be the only person
> >> who's pretty much given up on this dog of a piece of software.
> >> thoughts?
> >>
> >> rday
>
> Well if it works with seamonkey, then it can't be video driver issue?

Yes, it can.

Program A uses feature X.
Program B uses feature Y.
Driver has a bug in feature Y.





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