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randomshinichi

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Registered: 2006-10-23

Posts: 12

Problem: Firefox significantly more laggy than Epiphany

I've got firefox 2.0.0.3-1 installed on my Celeron 600MHz with 192MB of SDRAM (should be plenty of RAM, frankly) and it lags all the time. I can't even pass my mouse over a button without the visual effects lagging. There has to be a problem with Firefox, because I've got Epiphany 2.18.1 installed and it's freaking fast. In fact, I'm almost considering setting it as the default browser, because Firefox lags whatever I do.

Is there some way to fix this problem?

oli

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From: 127.0.0.1

Registered: 2006-02-07

Posts: 164

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Re: Problem: Firefox significantly more laggy than Epiphany

Yes don't use Firefox. Firefox isn't suitable for "vintage machines". I've seen this beast with 300Mb in memory at my box.

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Lord_Bad

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Registered: 2005-04-17

Posts: 54

Re: Problem: Firefox significantly more laggy than Epiphany

Firefox is one very resource hungry application, especially for RAM, and your computer doesn't have that much of it. For a computer like that I'd recommend either sticking to Epiphany or using Opera is you don't mind the fact it isn't open source.