firefox slow rendering (e.g. wikipedia)

[Clodoaldo]

2006/11/30, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com>:
> Okay, I've had this problem for a while and I'm beginning
> to wonder why.
>
> Firefox sometimes responds very slowly, especially when
> rendering Wikipedia and a few other pages (mostly wikis
> actually). I don't mean connecting to the internet, I mean
> responding to the user; e.g. I run a mouse gestures
> extension which can become unusable with a couple
> of Wikipedia tabs open. Booting the same machine into
> Windows Me and running Firefox I don't have this problem.
> System is FC5, Athlon 1.3GHz, 1GB RAM, GeForce 3 Ti200
> with Nvidia drivers.
>
> So:
> Does anyone else have this problem?

I have. Any site javascript intensive makes FF consume 100% CPU for a
few seconds at each click. Gmail is one of them.

I'm also on FC5. Athlon XP2100, 768 MB ram.

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