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Vincent NICOLAS - 22 Sep 2004 18:41 GMT

Hi all,

Firefox is wonderful but still so sloooooooow on Mac Os X !
Any hope some day for a BIG improvment ?
Any clues ?

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Javier Pedemonte - 23 Sep 2004 16:07 GMT

> Firefox is wonderful but still so sloooooooow on Mac Os X !

Could you provide some more info? I use it everyday, and it seems
pretty speedy to me? What machine and OS are you using? What seems slow?

javier

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Vincent NICOLAS - 28 Sep 2004 22:17 GMT

> > Firefox is wonderful but still so sloooooooow on Mac Os X !
>
> Could you provide some more info? I use it everyday, and it seems
> pretty speedy to me? What machine and OS are you using? What seems slow?

I have a G4 (450 upgraded in a 1.4 Ghz) witha Geforce 2 mx, 512Mo,
Panther last update.

Firefox est slow with some sites (not all of them), in particular all
thoses with lots of things to display.

The famous french news site macgeneration.com has a quite eavy page in
the "actualités" section. This page has a very poor scrolling
performance with my Mac. This same page in very speed on the PIII 600 of
my father.

I have tried the X11 port of Firefox once : the speed is good too ! Many
pages are slow compared to Safari or Opera, even if some are faster with
Firefox (but they are rare to me).

So, clearly, firefox is NOT optimized on Mac Os X (native).

It is usable with my 1.4Ghz horsepower, but it was unbearably slow on
the 450 Mhz.

In short terms : scrolling are slow on relatively big pages, but others
thing are slow like mouse gesture extension (compared to a P4 2.6 Ghz).

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Antony Shen - 08 Nov 2004 15:04 GMT

>>>Firefox is wonderful but still so sloooooooow on Mac Os X !
>>
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> In short terms : scrolling are slow on relatively big pages, but others
> thing are slow like mouse gesture extension (compared to a P4 2.6 Ghz).

I think you should try Camino or Safari if you can't bear the speed of
it in your Mac.

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Any hope for... speeeeeed ?