From: Randall Parker 

Okay, here are my performance results: Opera and FireFox on Windows are
fast. Opera on Linux is fast. FireFox on Linux is much slower.

Opera on Linux zooms in and out on the target page in about 1 second. Opera
on Linux is slightly slower than FireFox on Windows. But Opera on Linux is
way faster than the 12 seconds for FireFox on Linux.

Opera on Windows zooms in less than a second, a little bit faster than
Opera on Linux and similar to FireFox on Windows.

So FireFox on Linux is a dog.

I wonder if FireFox v2 beta 1 might be worth a try.

Also, Thunderbird on Linux has performance problems moving thru messages on
a news server. It is very slow.

Randall Parker wrote:
> I conpared my Sony Viao laptop with Win XP Home and a 2.2 Ghz P4: It
> zooms in and out on my page below and on the NY Times home page instantly.
>
> This confirms to me that this Dell box, for whatever reason, is slow
> with FireFox. I do not know whether FireFox or Linux or the hardware or
> something else is to blame.
>
> What are good cross-OS benchmarks?
>
> Randall Parker wrote:
>> Got an easy test to compare FireFox on different machines: Load a page
>> and then use Ctrl+= and Ctrl+- to increase and decrease the text size.
>>
>> With the New York Times front page loaded on a Dell Optiplex GX240 1.8
>> Ghz P4  Linux Fedora 5 and FireFox v1.5.0.4 it takes 5 seconds to
>> increase or decrease the size of the text on the front page.
>>
>> Since the front page of the NY Times changes fairly often I figure a
>> bigger and more stable page would be a better test. Here's one of mine:
>>
>> http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/cat_energy_tech.html
>>
>> This page takes 12 seconds to become bigger when I hit Ctrl+=. Then it
>> took 11 seconds to become smaller when I hit Ctrl+-.
>>
>> Geo, you want to try your Knoppix disk with that?

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