[geeks] OSX 10.4.2, FireFox 1.0.5 out

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Thu Jul 14 10:36:35 CDT 2005


Wed, 13 Jul 2005 @ 20:10 -0500, Bill Bradford said:

> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:09:07AM +0200, Jonathan Groll wrote:
> > Probably because your mac, like mine is an aged G4 in need of an OWC 
> > processor upgrade perhaps?
> 
> Wha?
> 
> http://www.mrbill.net/newhouse/moving-in/tn/0.jpg.html
> 
> 1.8Ghz iMac G5 with 1G of RAM.
> 
> I see similar "slower than Intel" performance in Firefox on my Mac mini
> (1.25Ghz, 512M).  The Firefox developers have admitted that performance
> on the OSX port isn't as fast as the other platforms (something they hope
> to fix by the 1.1 release).

Is some of that due to the compiler?

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