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toxygen

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Registered: 2008-08-22

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Firefox 3.0.7 - faster?

Just installed firefox-pgo (3.0.7) and it seems a lot faster at page display to me.  anyone else having similar experiences?

let's just stick to firefox 3.0.7 vs 3.0.x (previous versions) here plz

of course the compile (through x11vnc from work) took a while (i add -2 to my packages):

==> Finished making: firefox-pgo 3.0.7-2 x86_64 (Tue Mar 10 13:21:55 CDT 2009)

real    41m0.538s
user    35m28.441s
sys     3m43.059s

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haxit

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Re: Firefox 3.0.7 - faster?

It feels a lot faster, and it compiled a lot faster, it seemed. Well its on my repo if anyone wants a quick install for i686.

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tam1138

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Registered: 2007-09-10

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Re: Firefox 3.0.7 - faster?

3.0.7 does feel faster to me, but that's mostly because 3.0.6 felt a lot slower.

Procyon

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Registered: 2008-05-07

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Re: Firefox 3.0.7 - faster?

I went from pgo 3.0.3 to pgo 3.0.7 the other day and I can't say I notice a difference.

dr/owned

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Registered: 2009-01-09

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Re: Firefox 3.0.7 - faster?

I'm pretty sure it was mostly bug fixes and security patches...if they'd have changed the engine it would be 3.1   Firefox + Linux + 10 mbit connection is so fast anyways, I have no chance of seeing a speed difference.

Inxsible

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Registered: 2008-06-09

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Re: Firefox 3.0.7 - faster?

I haven't  noticed a speed difference either

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skottish

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Re: Firefox 3.0.7 - faster?

3.0.7 does feel faster to me, but that's mostly because 3.0.6 felt a lot slower.

toxygen

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Registered: 2008-08-22

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Re: Firefox 3.0.7 - faster?

maybe it was waiting 40 mins for the compile to go through, made loading pages seem faster

but seriously, the [arch]forums have been lightning fast today

Last edited by toxygen (2009-03-11 01:56:08)

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skottish

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Re: Firefox 3.0.7 - faster?

but seriously, the [arch]forums have been lightning fast today

Windows servers rock!

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=67080

toxygen

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Registered: 2008-08-22

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Re: Firefox 3.0.7 - faster?

Windows servers rock!

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=67080

They must've updated to server 2008 huh?

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