[Novalug] browser/network responsiveness

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

[1] Firefox, if you are using it, is a crappy browser.

[2] Any page that "snaps into place" fully rendered is rendering it in 
the background, then displaying it. Could be using X11 Pixmaps and then 
displaying the pixmaps in the window.

[3] Maybe his WiFi setup is better?

JIM

Jon LaBadie wrote:
> About a week ago I had did some troubleshooting of my
> brother-in-law's iMac.  Turns out he was networked to
> some neighbor's unsecured wireless net rather than his
> own.  When I got him hooked up to his own network and
> using his Comcast cable connection I had a chance to
> be impressed by the responsiveness of the browser
> (?safari?).  Most pages just snapped into view with
> little or no delay.
> 
> My house is served by Verizon's Fios.  I see quite
> high download speeds of large downloads.  However,
> my browser experience is quite poor compared to what
> I briefly saw with the iMac at my relatives'.
> 
> In contrast to a new page snapping into place fully
> rendered, there is typically an initial delay and
> slower rendering taking place in noticable stages.r
> Also many (most?) pages don't quite complete.  The
> status bar at the bottom of Firefox shows it to be
> a sliver short of complete and the message says
> "waiting for x.y.z".  This often takes 10 or more
> seconds to complete and sometimes never does.
> 
> The problem appears on all the several systems I use
> at home.  A WinXP wired directly to the router/switch
> and using Firefox or IE, my desktop running Fedora 9,
> wired long distance to the same router through another
> switch and using Firefox, a VirtualBox WinXP on that desktop
> using FF, IE, or Chrome, and a laptop connected wirelessly
> running Ubuntu Jaunty and FF or sometimes Konquer.
> 
> The problem is not underpowered systems; for example the
> desktop is a dual core, 3GHz, 4GB box.  And I've tried
> the supposedly faster 3.5.x version of FF with no change
> in the initial or final delays.
> 
> I suspect some sort of network problem/setting.
> Any ideas?
> 
> Jon
> 
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