Firefox Faster In Wine Than Native (was Re: Firefox Running Slow in Linux)

[Nataraj]

On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 15:08 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Nataraj <incoming-fedora-list at rjl.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone else see unreasonable usage of CPU resources from Firefox?
> 
> Do you have flash installed?  Some sites that have embedded flash
> video or animations that start on their own will cause my firefox to
> chew cpu.
> 
> -jef
> 

I think there are a lot of websites with flash content.  I don't know
weather this problem with flash exists under windows or not, but it
certainly would contribute to giving users the perception that firefox
is slow under linux.

I would like to be able to leave a web browser window open and then go
off and type an email message and perhaps go off and respond to another
issue when a user calls me, without having to exit from my web browser
because it's chewing up all my CPU so I can't do anything else.

I'm currently working on testing F10 (so far only under vmware), to see
if it is any better.  I did have to install Sun jdk/jre because I
couldn't get Dell DRAC cards to work with openjdk.

Nataraj