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Re:Mozilla is building an operating system by hollerith on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @12:14PM (#2808017)
FF 7.0a2 (got Jul 24 from the Aurora channel) is less responsive than FF 3.6 was on my machine -- although I cannot be sure that the unresponsiveness is due to memory pressure rather than, e.g., insufficient parallelism of the UI relative to the part that executes Javascript.
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Re:Mozilla is building an operating system by starwed on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @12:53PM (#2808264)
I think you can help them in this -- they're starting to gather UI responsiveness metrics. If you're seeing especially bad UI lag, they'd probably like you to run those metrics to help them figure out what is going on.

http://blog.mozilla.com/ted/2011/06/27/measuring-ui-responsi...

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Re:Mozilla is building an operating system by experimental on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @12:19PM (#2812808)
Possibly disable hardware acceleration.

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Re:Mozilla is building an operating system by hollerith on Sunday July 31, 2011 @12:16PM (#2828654)
Disabling hardware acceleration (it's in the General tab of the Advanced pref pane) seems to have solved the horrible problems I was having with Firefox 7. Thanks!
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