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Why is Firefox 3.0 so slow in Linux?
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I'm running Firefox 3.0.14 32-bit on Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit. It's much slower than in Windows XP on the same machine. Does anyone know why? Also, what's a possible way to improve the performance? (Please list optimizations as their own answer, so they can be rated independently.)
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One of the cited reasons is that Linux version of Firefox is not built using PGO. PGO stands for Profile Guided Optimization. Windows version of Firefox is built on Visual C++ with PGO IIRC Even Mozilla does not provide PGO compiled binaries for Lin…
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