On 09/22/2010 12:23 AM, Beau Henderson wrote:
> On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> Firefox for windows is compiled with PGO via ICC which apparently
> improves performance quite a bit. I believe there are issues when
> firefox is compiled with GCC via PGO and in any case, there is no
> support for PGO building of Firefox @ gentoo afaik. I wish I had the
> time and knowledge to whip up an ebuild that could do the magic to
> test it out tho.
>
> Any takers ? :P
>
You really think that wood change the unstable problem?




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