Hello,
I recently asked about ways to benchmark Firefox[1] because of how slow I found Firefox to be on Fedora 7. It was almost unusably slow, prompting me to switch to Konqueror as much as possible.
However I have found a short tutorial which after following the speed seems to at least be on par which my laptop (which has half the processing speed, and a slower, IDE hard drive, and slower memory)
Assuming I haven't encountered some freak situation, it may be necessary to consider changing the default Firefox settings, one of which is IPV6 DNS. I have zero issues against IPV6 myself, but if it helps make Firefox useful, by all means.
Again, if I can provide any objective metrics, please let me know.
[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2007-September/msg00135.h... [2] http://www.zolved.com/synapse/view_content/28106/How_to_speed_up_Mozilla_Fir...
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