The toman diaries

Firefox

fredag, juni 11, 2004

I just installed Mozilla Firefox on my SuSE machine. It is the slowest program I have ever used. Period. It took between 5 and 10 seconds to open a new tab, sometimes it took just as long before a tooltip appeared.

I dont know why this is... Is it because it uses GTK instead of Qt like Opera does? I doubt it, other programs use gtk too, like the GIMP and gtk-gnutella. The gimp is relatively fast, but gtk-gnutella is also very slow, unlike qtella which uses Qt. Maybe there is something to it, but I also think the firefox developers need to clean their act before I can use it.

I think I'll stick with Opera.