martin.ankerl.org — If you use Linux on a Laptop, chances are high that you can dramatically improve the responsiveness of all your GUI applications. This tip will work for you if you use a frequency scaling application like powernowd (Ubuntu does this by default).
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trogdoorAug 17, 2006
How is this at all Firefox specific? Also note that frequency scaling is there for a reason, and really doesn't take that long to adjust when you need more speed. Why would you want to be wasting power by clocking your CPU at 100% when 90% of the time you are only using 10% of that capacity? If you do this your battery life will drop significantly and, even if you have it plugged in, running a laptop at 100% 24/7 will make it HOT 24/7 and with the fans running full speed probably loud to.There is not much to gain by this, and a lot to lose.
mrassmanAug 17, 2006
Automatic 'inaccurate' report. These are all like get-rich-quick scenarios.
unbreakableAug 17, 2006
Just did. Went from a G5 to a Duron. :-)Just kidding iDiggers. I own a MacBook too.
aconbereAug 17, 2006
@beni - It's different Window manager/OS conventions. Tools is where Windows has chosen to put prefrences/options but under the Gnome Human Interface Guidlines (HIG) They've chosen edit. Thus as<a class="user" href="http://martin.ankerl.org/files/ondemand.png">http://martin.ankerl.org/files/ondemand.png</a> firefox hasn't bothered to try to match with KDE it's following the Gnome HIG.Similarly you'll notice that all sorts of things move around on OS X, (though not nearly as much as we would like). These are all conventions that one follows to try to interact as seemlessly as possible on the native operating system.~ Anders
kaiserollofdoomAug 17, 2006
Who Cares is the more important question. The Gecko will never be as fast as KHTML or WebKit any time soon, but its better standards based engine and is part of the most extensible Browser ever.
ccheathAug 17, 2006
@beni: to answer your question.... each os has a convention for where an app's prefs are located in the menus. On macs it is under the main app-name menu. On windows there's less of a standard (you'll see prefs under edit menus and tools menus... wherever the creator wanted to put it... etc etc) ... I don't use linux a ton, but I'd guess that conventionally you'd have a prefs option in the edit menu on most linux appz.
burkeAug 18, 2006
well, it worked for me, and I have an AMD Athlon 64 (running Dapper32)I actually just skipped the steps where you modprobe speedstep-centrino, and it works fine.My benchmark average was ~.5s faster.