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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. Sorry, I couldn't think of a name for this post. by JoeSixpack00 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    With all the (good natured) cracks about compile time, Gentoo finally wins a round!

    Seriously though, not only does firefox feel faster than other distros, but it's noticably faster than Window XP. And it goes all the way down to the little things. The pages seem to render faster. When I click on a shortcut link I have saved on the desktop, it takes Gentoo Firefox about 2-3 seconds to open. This very same task using the same version of Firefox takes about 8 seconds on Windows XP. Now I don't know why the Windows version takes longer, and out of fairness I honestly don't care. Reason being, when something doesn't work right in Linux (i.e compositing), it just doesn't work - no excuses accepted regardless of who's fault it is.

    (In the sake of fairness, I will admit I am running a 32Bit version of WindowsXP, while my Gentoo installation is completely 64-Bit. I would have ran XP 64-Bit, I didn't want the driver/game issues...)

  2. the real question is... by advocate_one · · Score: 1, Redundant

    which is faster, Firefox on Wine, or Firefox on Windows... both on identical hardware...

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