My day job does not involve Linux or programming, so I usually go around with a netbook as my primary machine.
Sadly, on F13 (which I installed gracefully since beta) Firefox has some performance issue, such as to force me to Chromium. So no weave anymore (weave is awesome) and some support less for the FLOSS world.
Hope Firefox catch back the performance crown, or anyway improve it to be good enough. In the meantime, Chromium is my platform.
Tags: Browser, Chromium, Firefox, Internet, Performance
Are you using the nvidia driver? I was talking to someone this morning about F13 and they said that they were having problems with Firefox and the nvidia driver.
I’m using the open source radeon driver and haven’t noticed any performance problems with Firefox. Looking at the CPU time of a few processes on my computer, Firefox doesn’t look too bad:
1917 root 20 0 203m 55m 18m S 2.0 1.4 20:39.96 Xorg
2771 agajania 20 0 1177m 159m 30m S 0.0 4.1 18:02.79 firefox
4614 agajania 20 0 931m 145m 16m S 0.0 3.7 21:36.80 claws-mail
I am using the xorg intel driver. The netbook is a “standard” N270 with intel chipset, and the performance of Firefox went down since I installed the F13 Beta. Hoping the final would improve, but it doesn’t.
Perhaps the build of Fedora – thinking about trying an installation of Mozilla stock tar.gz.
I haven’t yet tried F13 on an Atom CPU, so I can’t provide any information there.
One idea that comes to mind is to try the command “firefox -safe-mode” to see if an add-on is slowing it down.