On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Christopher Montgomery xiphmont@gmail.com wrote:
It's because a) virtually everything is backed by a db today (firefox is a pig because every keypress is firing off multiple database queries
I believe there's some work in Firefox 3.1 to make these queries asynchronous. The primary issue is the amount of I/O they're doing in the mainloop thread, which is always a big user experience mistake in desktop applications.