From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OyAS9-0008QG-DM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:32:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B8342E0B9A; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:31:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91872E0B9A for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:31:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEEECDEB9B for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:31:14 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ftW8N5GX0pBh for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:31:14 +0100 (BST) Received: from humphrey.ukfsn.org (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A557DEBFA for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:31:14 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox. Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:31:12 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-gentoo-r7; KDE/4.5.1; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009212231.13115.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 1ce7da2f-4f40-437b-8cbd-6d0e9147acd1 X-Archives-Hash: de43a3c149bd899861a64f2e124945c5 On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: > I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but Firefox in Linux > has always been pretty bad in general for me. Slow UI, unusable in NX > (constant screen redraws; Thunderbird does the same thing), network > stalling for MINUTES at a time, slow to load, etc. Other browsers on > the same machine don't suffer any of these problems. I don't use > Firefox as my primary browser because it is so flaky. That's odd, because on this newish i5 box, which is suffering really severe responsiveness problems otherwise, FF responds to my commands smartly. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.