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Re:Why Web-based development might not be the best choice by arockwell on Thursday January 29, 2009 @02:46PM (#456989)
When I put ubuntu on my machine at home firefox 3 seemed substantially slower than it did on windows. I'm not sure if FF3 is crappy on iinux or if there was something about my install that was screwed up.
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Re:Why Web-based development might not be the best choice by boucher on Thursday January 29, 2009 @03:54PM (#457099)
Firefox has some serious issues on Linux. It's admirable that they make a browser for Linux, but they do seem to let a lot more fall through the cracks than on other platforms.

For example, I've seen several websites that crash Linux in Firefox -- not good. The rendering in general is also not as good as win/mac, esp. with respect to transparency.

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Re:Why Web-based development might not be the best choice by quoderat on Friday January 30, 2009 @03:43AM (#457890)
Strange -- it seems faster in Linux to me than in Windows, though I've never done any formal benchmarks.

Haven't had any crashing problems, either.

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