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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. Re:Why not? by mcvos · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As far as I know, profiles are unique to each build: you can't create a profile under the Windows image and reuse it on the Mac or Linux builds.

    Are we talking regular firefox user profiles here? Because I've got a few old ones that I still intend to import on a new machine. It would suck if that wouldn't work.

    Although a browser that's optimised for my demanding usage would be kinda cool.