danone Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Hi, I have a fresh 10.4.3 installation on my PC and I have just installed firefox for MacOSX. Now I wondering - the application is really slow (not the network connection but the program itself). Compared with safari, firefox starts 10 times slower and the performance is bad too. Besides I have installed the videolan client for macosx and there I have no performance decrease compared with windows xp on the same machine. So what could be wrong with firefox?? Cheers, danone PS: I have 1Gig of Ram and a P4 3.2 GHz (HT enabled) SSE2 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7673-firefox-very-slow/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ouch Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Are you using the unibin version - i think they are still calling that deerpark Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7673-firefox-very-slow/#findComment-48031 Share on other sites More sharing options...
danone Posted January 25, 2006 Author Share Posted January 25, 2006 I don't know it's just the version from the http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html for macosx so I think it's not the unibin version isn't it?? So should it be faster when using the unibin version. Sorry for that stupid questions but I am still noob. Any help would be great. Cheers, danone Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7673-firefox-very-slow/#findComment-48091 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdxxx Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 Look at your Application folder - see where it says "PowerPC" after some applications? Does it say that after FixFox. If so, this is the regular Mac version, it is running in PPC emulation, and it will be slowwwwwer... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7673-firefox-very-slow/#findComment-51136 Share on other sites More sharing options...
amilmac Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 You are using PPC version. I recommend you try "Camino" compiled for Mac x86, here is the link: http://josh.trancesoftware.com/mozilla/Camino-x86.app.zip (extracted from xplodenet.com) Good look! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7673-firefox-very-slow/#findComment-51632 Share on other sites More sharing options...
amilmac Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 You are using PPC version.I recommend you try "Camino" compiled for Mac x86, here is the link: http://josh.trancesoftware.com/mozilla/Camino-x86.app.zip (extracted from xplodenet.com) Good look! Sorry, broken link. Here Firefox 1.5 intel buil: http://josh.trancesoftware.com/mozilla/fir...5.intel.mac.dmg Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/7673-firefox-very-slow/#findComment-51718 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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