mothergoose729

I just installed ubuntu 9. something on my 939 athlon 3200+ (single core) system. It has a 80 gig IDE drive, 8800gt, and 2 512mb sticks of memory running at 400mhz with a CAS 2 timings I believe... Still, I find webpages loading faster... much faster then on my sig rig. Yes, really. It obviously can't do anything else faster, but I was wondering what it is about linux, or firefox in linux, or firefox in ubuntu 9.0 for linux, that makes it so snappy?

Just curious

Thanks

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Probably getting less usage so the cache and typed urls and history to sift through is smaller.

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mothergoose729

Maybe... The difference is pretty noticeable though. And I am stuck with firefox 3.0. My desktop and netbook both have 3.5. Same themes and addons too.

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gonX

I heard something a while ago about the Windows version of Firefox was actually a good deal snappier than the Linux version to do stuff.
Which, honestly, sounds a bit weird considering your scenario

Have you tried 3.5 on Linux?

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It is. The Windows version is far more optimized than the Linux version. What is happening in the OP's case I think is due to his Ubuntu installation being rather "fresh" in comparison to his Windows installation. A fresh install of an OS will always act "snappier" than an older one.

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For Linux try Swiftfox. It's a processor architecture optimized build of firefox that is otherwise untouched (fully compatible with addons, themes, etc...). You will see some nice gains on that athlon64 (around 10% according to one forum member). http://getswiftfox.com/

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Firefox is actually faster in WINE then native Linux :/

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mothergoose729

I did some research and windows is supposed to be a lot faster. It could be the fresh install that is doing it. I was just genuinely shocked by the difference. Since linux doesn't suffer from winrot I imagine that it will stay snappy. Strange...

Thanks guys. I will try the special linux build, although I am already impressed by the speed.

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bomfunk

I've never noticed this with Linux; the performance seems to stay the same no matter how full the installation is loaded with crap.

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BLinux

I'd have to disagree... most Linux distros are not like Windows where things get left behind in the registry/files that bloat the system over time. Most package management systems on Linux are very clean about removing stuff so the OS stays relatively clean without bloat over time.

I have a Fedora desktop that I installed over a year ago and have since upgraded from Fedora 8 to Fedora 10 and the system hasn't gotten bloated over the 12+ months since initial install nor through the upgrade. This is one of the biggest reasons why I like Linux... if I want to know what files were installed by some package, I can find out and I have full control over the system. I don't have to watch some stupid progress bar as I uninstall a program and pray that it will cleanly remove everything it installed and then end up hunting through the registry for leftover garbage.