Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-09 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: (snip) With wikipedia, everybody can go and edit what they want, when they want, where they want. Agreed. But that's also a good thing about it. Anybody can *correct* what they want, when they want, where they want. Why do you think people will always try to be

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-06 Thread The Slash
On Sunday April 30 2006 16:50, David Morgan wrote: On 02:04 Mon 01 May , Farhan Ahmed wrote: Jeff Rollin wrote: I didn't say DG_DISABLE_DEBUG was a USE flag, I said it was a CFLAG. And it improves the speed of KDE applications too Read your earlier post.. Anyway where is this

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/3/06, The Slash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting... I'm still a little bit paranoid about adding this to make.conf, though. Can anybody think of a reason why I wouldn't want to add it? Um, yes, as I have said twice in this thread alreadyG_DISABLE_DEBUG DOESNT DO ANYTHING

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 May 2006 10:50 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 April 2006 08:47 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: wu chuanwen wrote: 2006/4/30, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] that is (AFAIK) just a layer below TCP/IP. Wrong. Besides: just

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 May 2006 10:57 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 April 2006 05:59 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: wu chuanwen wrote: Try a blank Firefox profile. To create one, run firefox -ProfileManager. This is something like the third

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 May 2006 11:03 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 May 2006 07:55 am, Justin Patrin wrote: On 4/30/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kesara Rathnayake wrote: (I hate HTML mailand I hate Outlook even more.)

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 May 2006 11:14 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 April 2006 11:21 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: Kesara Rathnayake wrote: I guess Firefox is slow now because of whole lot of Extentions that we used today. To find out, I

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 05 May 2006 08:22:29 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 May 2006 11:03 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Outlook and Outlook Express are the two worst mail clients in the universe. They are not. Lotus

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 08:18, Farhan Ahmed wrote: CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} -fvisibility-inlines-hidden no, just no. This breaks enough stuff. Do not tell others to use it. If you want to use it. Fine. But do not tell anybody else to do it. According to

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 05 May 2006 12:42, Farhan Ahmed wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 08:18, Farhan Ahmed wrote: CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} -fvisibility-inlines-hidden no, just no. This breaks enough stuff. Do not tell others to use it. If you want to use it. Fine. But do not

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Friday 05 May 2006 12:42, Farhan Ahmed wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 08:18, Farhan Ahmed wrote: CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} -fvisibility-inlines-hidden no, just no. This breaks enough stuff. Do not tell others to use it.

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 05 May 2006 13:17, Farhan Ahmed wrote: MAKEOPTS= MAKEOPTS=-j2 -j1 is a good one for singlecore/single cpu computer, where the compiling is running in the background. No for singlecore/single cpu computer, -j2 is recommended.. Read MAKEOPTS

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: (snip) The difference is: with -j2 box is slow. A lot of packages do not compile because of ooms. with -j1 box is normal. No ooms. Compiling does not take longer as with -j2. This is the first time I'm hearing this.. Even with -j2 my system functions

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 04 May 2006 05:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 May 2006 11:03 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Outlook and Outlook Express are the two worst mail clients in the universe. [SNIP] They're too slow Not really. You must not have used them.

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Farhan Ahmed wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: (snip) The difference is: with -j2 box is slow. A lot of packages do not compile because of ooms. with -j1 box is normal. No ooms. Compiling does not take longer as with -j2. This is the first time I'm hearing this.. Even with -j2 my

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 05 May 2006 16:06, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Fri, 5 May 2006 18:49:29 +0530 Farhan Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The difference is: with -j2 box is slow. A lot of packages do not compile because of ooms. with -j1 box is normal. No ooms. Compiling does not take

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 05 May 2006 16:20, Alexander Skwar wrote: Farhan Ahmed wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: (snip) The difference is: with -j2 box is slow. A lot of packages do not compile because of ooms. with -j1 box is normal. No ooms. Compiling does not take longer as with -j2.

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 05 May 2006 15:19, Farhan Ahmed wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: (snip) The difference is: with -j2 box is slow. A lot of packages do not compile because of ooms. with -j1 box is normal. No ooms. Compiling does not take longer as with -j2. This is the first time I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
This is an example: [ 1151.984763] oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x80d2, order=0 [ 1151.984767] Mem-info: [ 1151.984770] DMA per-cpu: [ 1151.984772] cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 used:3 [ 1151.984775] cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 used:1 [ 1151.984776] Normal per-cpu: [ 1151.984779] cpu 0 hot:

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Friday 05 May 2006 15:19, Farhan Ahmed wrote: (snip) PS: Your quote in previous message about gentoo-wiki is not true.. Although I agree that the Flags I quoted were unstable, you cannot say gentoo-wiki cannot be trusted just because it can be edited by

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 05 May 2006 17:35, Farhan Ahmed wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Friday 05 May 2006 15:19, Farhan Ahmed wrote: (snip) PS: Your quote in previous message about gentoo-wiki is not true.. Although I agree that the Flags I quoted were unstable, you cannot say

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: I've yet to see a gcc process that claims 100MB of physical memory. Well, I haven't looked at memory usage, but when Qt or kdelibs is being compiled, the system gets quite slow and especially during linking quite some memory is used. Alexander Skwar -- We are what

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Friday 05 May 2006 16:20, Alexander Skwar wrote: Farhan Ahmed wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: This is the first time I'm hearing this.. Even with -j2 my system functions normally.. Has anyone encountered same problem? Not me. I'm using -j2 on a single

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 05 May 2006 19:49, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Friday 05 May 2006 16:20, Alexander Skwar wrote: Farhan Ahmed wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: This is the first time I'm hearing this.. Even with -j2 my system functions normally.. Has anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: (snip) There are cases, where misonformation was not found for month, even longer - and there are a lot of very demanding and obscure articles, would you really bet, that every case of voluntary misinformation can and will be found? In that case you should

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:35:44PM -0700, Ryan Tandy wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 04 May 2006 05:27 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: Gentoo ~x86 (or ~whatever) is roughly equivalant to a mix of Debian Testing and Unstable. A package may be ~ simply because it hasn't been tested

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 05 May 2006 19:58, Farhan Ahmed wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: (snip) There are cases, where misonformation was not found for month, even longer - and there are a lot of very demanding and obscure articles, would you really bet, that every case of voluntary misinformation

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 05 May 2006 13:55, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?': 2) You will *NOT* get bug-support here or in bugzilla.gentoo.org for packages marked as ~arch That is absolutely untrue. I run ~amd64 and I've never had trouble getting

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Peter Kelly
On Friday 05 May 2006 17:36, Maurice E Johnson wrote: OMG Will this thread ever stop? It's been high jacked 5 times. Will the guy that asked the original question please either grow a brain or use the one he has. So rest of us don't have to create filters for this list? What does

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 03 May 2006 23:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?': I've asked on multiple occassions for a comparison to a Debian paradigm. My first distro was Debian. So a comparison to Debian would do me a world of good. ARCH ~= STABLE but more

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 04 May 2006 05:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 May 2006 11:51 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 08:18, Farhan Ahmed wrote: CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} -fvisibility-inlines-hidden no, just no. This breaks enough stuff. Do not tell others to use it. If

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:02:45PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote And I recommend that you do *not* set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 unless you are prepared for the consequences. WHAT CONSEQUENCES!? I've asked on multiple occassions for a comparison to a Debian paradigm. My first distro was

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Monday 01 May 2006 10:50 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 April 2006 08:47 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: wu chuanwen wrote: 2006/4/30, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] that is (AFAIK) just a layer below TCP/IP. Wrong. Besides: just a layer below TCP/IP

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Monday 01 May 2006 11:03 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 May 2006 07:55 am, Justin Patrin wrote: On 4/30/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kesara Rathnayake wrote: (I hate HTML mailand I hate Outlook even more.) Outlook and Outlook

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 06:05 am, Tero Grundström wrote: On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, wu chuanwen wrote: Hi! Everybody! I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?In my machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck and even can not scroll up and

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Monday 01 May 2006 11:14 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 April 2006 11:21 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: Kesara Rathnayake wrote: I guess Firefox is slow now because of whole lot of Extentions that we used today. To find out, I asked OP to create a

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Monday 01 May 2006 10:57 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 April 2006 05:59 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: wu chuanwen wrote: Not really. You most likely either have a faster machine Celeron M Notebook with 1.5 GHz. Not what I'd call fast :) And 768M

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Thursday 04 May 2006 04:42 am, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Thursday 04 May 2006 05:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 May 2006 11:51 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 08:18, Farhan Ahmed wrote: CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} -fvisibility-inlines-hidden

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread Jamie
snip How did you switch to a binary version? How did you do that? I didn't know you could use emerge and not compile it. Unless, of course, you aren't using emerge... emerge mozilla-firefox-bin will emerge the binary version of firefox -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Thursday 04 May 2006 05:27 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:02:45PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote And I recommend that you do *not* set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 unless you are prepared for the consequences. WHAT CONSEQUENCES!? I've asked on multiple occassions for

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:21:25PM -0700, Penguin Lover [EMAIL PROTECTED] squawked: Well, I recently switched to the binary version and to my surprise I found that it is much faster than the self compiled version. Especially the interface is much more responsive in the binary version. I

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread Ryan Tandy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 04 May 2006 05:27 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: Gentoo ~x86 (or ~whatever) is roughly equivalant to a mix of Debian Testing and Unstable. A package may be ~ simply because it hasn't been tested enough yet to certify as stable. Or it may be horribly broken.

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-03 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 09:34 am, Richard Fish wrote: On 5/1/06, Farhan Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you wish to have latest packages, change ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86, it might make your system a bit unstable but going through my experience it has not broken a thing in my system. And I

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 April 2006 08:47 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: wu chuanwen wrote: 2006/4/30, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hm, those are not firefox USE flags. What do you get, when you run emerge -vpt mozilla-firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
Graham Murray wrote: Nich Steicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, this is simply wrong - IPV6 is the next generation protocol we are currently using IPV4 - why IPV6 is a default build flag i would have no idea, as from what i can see, it will be a good while before IPV6 actually becomes

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 April 2006 05:59 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: wu chuanwen wrote: Not really. You most likely either have a faster machine Celeron M Notebook with 1.5 GHz. Not what I'd call fast :) And 768M ram. or have already tweaked yours. No. Try a blank

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 April 2006 01:11 pm, Jeff Rollin wrote: I didn't say DG_DISABLE_DEBUG was a USE flag, I said it was a CFLAG. And it improves the speed of KDE applications too So, can you please tell me how to do this? Please read the manual. It explains how to set

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 May 2006 07:55 am, Justin Patrin wrote: On 4/30/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kesara Rathnayake wrote: PS: I begin to hate Googlemail because of the default to use HTML even if it is not required. Sucks. Big time. It may default to HTML

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 April 2006 11:21 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: Kesara Rathnayake wrote: I guess Firefox is slow now because of whole lot of Extentions that we used today. To find out, I asked OP to create a blank profile. I also assume a local problem at his side. OP

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-02 Thread Farhan Ahmed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snip) So I went through all those different USE flags, and added ones I knew I could add without anything blowing up. This is what I get: # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage # Please consult

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-02 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 08:18, Farhan Ahmed wrote: CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} -fvisibility-inlines-hidden no, just no. This breaks enough stuff. Do not tell others to use it. If you want to use it. Fine. But do not tell anybody else to do it. MAKEOPTS= MAKEOPTS=-j2 -j1 is a good

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-02 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, wu chuanwen wrote: Hi! Everybody! I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?In my machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck and even can not scroll up and down.Many peple have the same situation.Do you think so? And how

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/1/06, Farhan Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you wish to have latest packages, change ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86, it might make your system a bit unstable but going through my experience it has not broken a thing in my system. And I recommend that you do *not* set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 unless

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/1/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 April 2006 01:11 pm, Jeff Rollin wrote: I didn't say DG_DISABLE_DEBUG was a USE flag, I said it was a CFLAG. And it improves the speed of KDE applications too So, can you please tell me how to do this?

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-01 Thread Justin Patrin
On 4/30/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kesara Rathnayake wrote: PS: I begin to hate Googlemail because of the default to use HTML even if it is not required. Sucks. Big time. It may default to HTML now, as do Yahoo and Hotmail, but it's an easy thing to turn off. I'm still using

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-01 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Sunday 30 April 2006 01:11 pm, Jeff Rollin wrote: I didn't say DG_DISABLE_DEBUG was a USE flag, I said it was a CFLAG. And it improves the speed of KDE applications too So, can you please tell me how to do this? I'd really appreciate it.

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-01 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Sunday 30 April 2006 05:59 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: wu chuanwen wrote: Hi! Everybody! I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow? Yes. Not really. You most likely either have a faster machine or have already tweaked yours. In my machine,if i open 6 or

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-01 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Sunday 30 April 2006 11:21 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: Kesara Rathnayake wrote: I guess Firefox is slow now because of whole lot of Extentions that we used today. To find out, I asked OP to create a blank profile. I also assume a local problem at his side. OP should simply create a new

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-01 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Sunday 30 April 2006 08:47 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: wu chuanwen wrote: 2006/4/30, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hm, those are not firefox USE flags. What do you get, when you run emerge -vpt mozilla-firefox I get this:

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-01 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Sunday 30 April 2006 07:22 am, Jeff Rollin wrote: Oh, yeah. I couldn't understand why people raved about the speed of Gentoo till I added USE=-DG_DISABLE_DEBUG So, this is going to be a very elementary question, but it's honestly because I don't know. I have major problems with Firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-01 Thread Farhan Ahmed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snip) These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 [1.0.7-r4] -debug +gnome +ipv6 +java* -mozcalendar -mozdevelop -moznoxft -mozsvg +truetype -xinerama

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-01 Thread Nich Steicke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 April 2006 08:47 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: wu chuanwen wrote: 2006/4/30, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hm, those are not firefox USE flags. What do you get, when you run emerge -vpt

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-01 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Monday 01 May 2006 07:55 am, Justin Patrin wrote: On 4/30/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kesara Rathnayake wrote: PS: I begin to hate Googlemail because of the default to use HTML even if it is not required. Sucks. Big time. It may default to HTML now, as do Yahoo and

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-01 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Monday 01 May 2006 04:32 pm, Farhan Ahmed wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snip) These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 [1.0.7-r4] -debug +gnome +ipv6 +java*

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-01 Thread Graham Murray
Nich Steicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, this is simply wrong - IPV6 is the next generation protocol we are currently using IPV4 - why IPV6 is a default build flag i would have no idea, as from what i can see, it will be a good while before IPV6 actually becomes implemented. IPv6 is

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 April 2006 07:22 am, Jeff Rollin wrote: Oh, yeah. I couldn't understand why people raved about the speed of Gentoo till I added USE=-DG_DISABLE_DEBUG So, this is going to be a very elementary question, but it's honestly because I don't know. I have

[gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread wu chuanwen
Hi! Everybody!I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?In my machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck and even can not scroll up and down.Many peple have the same situation.Do you think so? And how can you solve this problem?-- wcw

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Jeff Rollin
Works fine on mine; what are your USE flags?On 30/04/06, wu chuanwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Everybody!I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?In my machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck and even can not scroll up and down.Many peple

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
wu chuanwen wrote: Hi! Everybody! I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow? Not really. In my machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck and even can not scroll up and down. Works fine here. Many peple have the same situation.

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread wu chuanwen
2006/4/30, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Works fine on mine; what are your USE flags?USE=gtk gnome gcj hal -qt -kde dvd alsa cdr nptl nptlonly pic.It's OK!Oh god! Just like now ,i just open two tab,it's so slow when i switch between the two tab. On 30/04/06, wu chuanwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Andrea Barisani
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 02:59:06PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: wu chuanwen wrote: Hi! Everybody! I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow? Not really. In my machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck and even can not scroll up

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread wu chuanwen
2006/4/30, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: wu chuanwen wrote: Hi! Everybody! I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?Not really. In my machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck and even can not scroll up and down.Works fine here. Many

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread wu chuanwen
2006/4/30, wu chuanwen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2006/4/30, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] : wu chuanwen wrote: Hi! Everybody! I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?Not really. In my machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck and even can not

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread wu chuanwen
2006/4/30, Andrea Barisani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 02:59:06PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: wu chuanwen wrote: Hi! Everybody! I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow? Not really. In my machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Sunday, April 30 2006 22:52, wu chuanwen wrote: I am sorry,i forget the link: http://www.linuxsir.org/bbs/showthread.php?t=252747 I don't think it'd be much help posting a Chinese forum thread in an English mailing list. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread wu chuanwen
2006/4/30, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday, April 30 2006 22:52, wu chuanwen wrote: I am sorry,i forget the link: http://www.linuxsir.org/bbs/showthread.php?t=252747 I don't think it'd be much help posting a Chinese forum thread in an Englishmailing list.I just mean to show that

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
wu chuanwen wrote: Can you tell me which version you are using ? mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.2 PS: Please only send HTML mails, if it is really necessary. Alexander Skwar -- There is only one word for aid that is genuinely without strings, and that word is blackmail. --

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
wu chuanwen wrote: 2006/4/30, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Works fine on mine; what are your USE flags? USE=gtk gnome gcj hal -qt -kde dvd alsa cdr nptl nptlonly pic. Hm, those are not firefox USE flags. What do you get, when you run emerge -vpt

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Jeff Rollin
I know a lot of people don't recommend this, but I haven't had any trouble with CFLAGS=-O3, specifically in firefox 1.5.0.2On 30/04/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wu chuanwen wrote: 2006/4/30, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Works fine on mine; what are your

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Jeff Rollin
Oh, yeah. I couldn't understand why people raved about the speed of Gentoo till I added USE=-DG_DISABLE_DEBUGOn 30/04/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I know a lot of people don't recommend this, but I haven't had any trouble with CFLAGS=-O3, specifically in firefox 1.5.0.2 On 30/04/06,

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jeff Rollin wrote: Oh, yeah. I couldn't understand why people raved about the speed of Gentoo till I added USE=-DG_DISABLE_DEBUG What's that supposed to do? It doesn't seem to be a valid USE flag. Alexander Skwar PS: Top posts are no good. -- Brian Griffin: Seriously, who buys a novelty

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jeff Rollin wrote: I know a lot of people don't recommend this, but I haven't had any trouble with CFLAGS=-O3, specifically in firefox 1.5.0.2 If -O3 REALLY gives a speedup depends heavily on your CPU. You might not get a speedup at all - and, more likely, you might not get a *noticeable*

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread wu chuanwen
2006/4/30, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: wu chuanwen wrote: 2006/4/30, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Works fine on mine; what are your USE flags? USE=gtk gnome gcj hal -qt -kde dvd alsa cdr nptl nptlonly pic.Hm, those are not firefox USE flags. What do you get, when

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread wu chuanwen
2006/4/30, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know a lot of people don't recommend this, but I haven't had any trouble with CFLAGS=-O3, specifically in firefox 1.5.0.2I can't use O3 because i got many errors when complied my gentoo .I use O2,-- wcw

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Jeff Rollin
Alexander, DG_DISABLE_DEBUG strips debugging information from binaries, making them smaller (and faster) Jeff. On 30/04/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Rollin wrote: I know a lot of people don't recommend this, but I haven't had any trouble with CFLAGS=-O3, specifically in

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Philip Webb
060430 wu chuanwen wrote: I think most of us are using firefox now. Do you think it's too slow? if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox, my firefox will be stuck and even can not scroll up and down. I have this problem with Independent (newspaper), but not generally. I suspect it's caused by heavy

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
wu chuanwen wrote: 2006/4/30, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hm, those are not firefox USE flags. What do you get, when you run emerge -vpt mozilla-firefox I get this: [ebuild U ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.2 [1.5.0.1-r4]

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread wu chuanwen
2006/4/30, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: wu chuanwen wrote: 2006/4/30, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hm, those are not firefox USE flags. What do you get, when you run emerge -vpt mozilla-firefox I get this: [ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/30/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander, DG_DISABLE_DEBUG strips debugging information from binaries, making them smaller (and faster) Maybe as a CFLAG, but not a USE flag. And it will only affect gnome/glib/gtk applications. PS: As Alexander already said, please do not

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Heiko Wundram
Am Sonntag 30 April 2006 14:24 schrieb wu chuanwen: I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?In my machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck and even can not scroll up and down.Many peple have the same situation.Do you think so? And how

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
wu chuanwen wrote: Oh! I know now.I use gmail(i think it is the best e-mail now which can sort you e-mail by topic and looks very good!)and never see my mail from the mail-list in other application. Is this mail OK now ? Yes, that's *VERY* *MUCH* better now. Thanks a lot! Alexander Skwar --

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread wu chuanwen
2006/4/30, Heiko Wundram [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Sonntag 30 April 2006 14:24 schrieb wu chuanwen: I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?In my machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck and even can not scroll up and down.Many peple have

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Kesara Rathnayake
On 4/30/06, Heiko Wundram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Sonntag 30 April 2006 14:24 schrieb wu chuanwen: I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?In my machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck and even can not scroll up and down.Many peple

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread wu chuanwen
2006/4/30, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 4/30/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander, DG_DISABLE_DEBUG strips debugging information from binaries, making them smaller (and faster) Maybe as a CFLAG, but not a USE flag. And it will only affect gnome/glib/gtk applications.

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
wu chuanwen wrote: 2006/4/30, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 4/30/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander, DG_DISABLE_DEBUG strips debugging information from binaries, making them smaller (and faster) Maybe as a CFLAG, but not a USE flag. And it will only affect

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
Kesara Rathnayake wrote: I guess Firefox is slow now because of whole lot of Extentions that we used today. To find out, I asked OP to create a blank profile. I also assume a local problem at his side. OP should simply create a new profile and report back. Alexander Skwar PS: I begin to

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Jeff Rollin wrote: DG_DISABLE_DEBUG strips debugging information from binaries, making them smaller (and faster) I dont think there is any use flags like DG_DISABLE_DEBUG.. As for as debugging symbols goes the use flag 'debug' control them i guess.. And as far as i know on x86 arch it

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Alexander Skwar wrote: (snip)_ To the others: Is ipv6 still one of the default flags? Has this bug still not been fixed? (snip) Well in default-linux/{alpha,amd64,arm,hppa,ia64,m68k,s390,sh,x86} profiles, its on by default.. I don know for sure that in hardened profile it's turned off..

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Alexander Skwar wrote: (snip) PS: I begin to hate Googlemail because of the default to use HTML even if it is not required. Sucks. Big time. Another thing that sucks, is that HTML mails are permitted on this list. Why not just dump the HTML part (and every other attachment)? Well I think

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Jeff Rollin
I didn't say DG_DISABLE_DEBUG was a USE flag, I said it was a CFLAG. And it improves the speed of KDE applications too-- --Argument against Linux number 6,033: ...So this is like most Linux viruses. You have to download the virus yourself, become

  1   2   >