[indiana-discuss] FF3 on DP2 (Was: Status for Firefox 3 in Solaris)

[W. Wayne Liauh]

> > 3. The system (DP2) would slow to a crawl when (&
> only when) I tried to open Chinese-language pages,
> for example:
> >
> > http://news.chinatimes.com/
> >
> > http://www.people.com.cn/
> >
> > However, I don't have problem with e.g., the
> following page:
> >
> >
> http://www.nomadicminds.org/blogs/2008/04/06/古人西辭黃鶴樓煙花
> 三月/
> >
> > I don't know why this is so, any thoughts would be
> greatly appreciated!
> >
> >   
> 
> It may or may not help, but it could be related to
> character set.  I 
> just ran into a situation the other day where
> something else on Solaris 
> was slower than expected, and it was ultimately
> related to UTF-8 in GNU 
> grep.  In your case, the last one is UTF-8, but the
> other two are 
> different character sets.
> 
> Some more experimentation with different character
> sets may be worth 
> looking into.  It could also be related to the
> loading of libraries when 
> you hit pages with different character sets the first
> time.  Does a 
> subsequent reload also "slow to a crawl"?

The first page uses Big5 (traditional Chinese, ROC) character set, while the second uses GB2312 (simplified Chinese, PRC).  These are two of the most popular Chinese web pages (but I have experienced similar slowness problems in other Chinese-language pages).  This is way beyond my league, but perhaps someone could look into this problem, unless we are willing to shut ourselves from the Greater China market?  (Hope not!)

> 
> - Matt
> 
> p.s.: +1 on the Java plugin, it should work out of
> the box IMHO

I think specifying the JAVA_HOME environmental variable (& modify the java package somewhat) should solve this problem.  We want to make sure that our OS is java-ready.  This is the most basic requirement.


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Thanks.
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