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Firefox Faster In Wine Than Native

Posted by timothy on from the that-sounds-hard-to-swallow dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Tuxradar did some benchmarks comparing Firefox's Windows and Linux JavaScript performance. 'We did some simple JavaScript benchmarks of Firefox 3.0 using Windows and Linux to see how it performed across the platforms — and the results are pretty bleak for Linux.' Later on, they tried Wine. 'The end result: Firefox from Mozilla or from Fedora has almost nil speed difference, and Firefox running on Wine is faster than native Firefox.'"

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  1. First post... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    except I'm using Linux

  2. Re:Dear losers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You should test it for yourself - benchmark which setup loads the fucking article fastest and let us know how that turns out.

  3. Re:How fast do we need? by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 5, Funny

    hey i want the page render before i even click the link (possibly using thiotimoline, but i don't care about specifics), until the browser does that i will never be happy!

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  4. Re:Really a surprise? by SCHecklerX · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, I think it's "Good, Fast, Cheap. Pick 2". And for online dating, it seems to be "Attractive, Intelligent, Sane. Pick 2".

  5. Re:Really a surprise? by DarthVain · · Score: 5, Funny

    Attractive and Intelligent works for me! Just don't sleep with her, and by sleep I mean fall asleep. Also hide all knives and scissors.