Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > James G. Sack (jim) wrote: >> Stewart Stremler wrote: >>> .. begin quoting Todd Walton as of Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 04:02:52PM >>> -0700: >>>> .. >>>> Upload to the spiffy kernel-panic.org website? >>> The painfully slow one, you mean? Sure, it's pretty... >> >> The painfully slow behavior _may_ be explained by hidden links (porn *& >> other) that I have found (and expunged) several times in the recent >> past. My observation was that rendering slowdown always accompanied the >> presence of the funny-business. >> >> Perhaps you would be so good as to do an experiment: visit >> http://www.kernel-panic.org/wiki >> and see if it seems any faster to you. > > Painful slowness in Firefox occurs in a couple different contexts I found: > > 1) Too many things in the Tools -> Downloads window. Don't ask me why > clearing that list speeds things up, but it seems to. > > 2) Too many plugins. I really like some of the plugins, but they really > add up in terms of time. You have to use only the ones you really need. > > AdBlock, in particular, can be a *hog* if you give it too many rules.
I was seeing a slowdown in opera and konqueror, too. It correlated with <div style="height:1px">..lotsoflinks.. stuff that seems to be of use to somebody -- perhaps, just as a repository/sharing mechanism? As soon as I edited out the inserted junk, the browsers started working much faster! ..j -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
