From: Randall Parker 

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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