From: /m 

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 13:05:51 -0700, 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?


fwiw, I loaded the page in Opera, and then "zoomed" the page by
10%. The new page rendered in 3 seconds.

2.4GHz Pentium 4, 800MHz FSB,  Windows 2000.

 /m

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