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

[Matt Ingenthron]

W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> 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"?

- Matt

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


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