44049 - mozilla extremely slow on Red Hat 6.1

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 26502

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Dennis Hartigan-O'Connor]

Using any of a variety of nightly builds over the course of the past several
months (April-June, 2000), Mozilla is /extremely/ slow on Red Hat Linux 6.1
running on a Pentium processor.  This is true whether using GNOME, KDE, or
fvwm.  This can be observed loading any page, including the standard default
page installed with Apache.

Running GNOME or KDE, Mozilla is several (5?) times slower than Netscape 4.61. 
Running fvwm, Mozilla is 10-100 times slower than Netscape 4.61.  For example,
to load the Apache default page, served by the local machine, took about 13
seconds using Mozilla.  The page loaded instantaneously (less than one second)
using Netscape.

This problem is very serious, as it renders Mozilla useless on this platform.  I
was surprised that a search turned up few reports of slow performance on Linux. 
On the Macintosh platform, by contrast, recent builds compare favorably to
Netscape 4.7.  I am sorry to be so general but this is a very global (and
obvious) problem.

Comment 1

[David Krause]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26502 ***

Comment 2

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

Verify dupe, this is a known big issue.