[gentoo-amd64] Browsing speed problems - possibly flash related

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

Hi,
   I'm noticing that what I think is a flash presentation in
firefox-bin on my 3GHz Gentoo AMD64 machine is *significantly* slower,
like 10x slower, than the same page coming up on my 1.6Ghz Athlon XP
machine running Win XP.

   If I go to the following page

http://www.investools.com/

then what I see is a green arrow filling up for about 10 seconds while
this presentation loading. On the XP box it's essentially
instantaneous. I cleared cache and restarted the browser on both
machines to make the comparison.

   Granted, I don't care about this stuff on the front page but there
is stuff inside the website that I need which is also 5-10x slower on
my Gentoo machine than on Win XP which makes using Gentoo pretty much
out of the question. I'm not sure the stuff inside is actually flash -
it's static charts, etc., some of which are done with Java I think.

   Do any others see this same slow response on the front page?

   I'm using a newish flash although I haven't sync'ed in a day or two
so maybe something else is out there.

mark@lightning ~ $ eix -I flash
[I] net-www/netscape-flash
     Available versions:  7.0.63 7.0.68 {M}(~)9.0.21.55 {M}(~)9.0.21.78
     Installed versions:  9.0.21.78(04:34:22 PM 12/02/2006)
     Homepage:            http://www.adobe.com/
     Description:         Adobe Flash Player

mark@lightning ~ $

   Is this a firefox-bin thing? Maybe I should build firefox from source?

Thanks in advance,
Mark
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