Every popular website today uses a tremendous amount of javascript for both ajax and UI effects, this is bad news for firefox 3 users on linux because javascript is incredibly slow on linux versions of firefox. Firefox has been the dominant browser on linux and comes with most major distributions, and there aren’t many good alternatives. This issue is so bad that on slightly older computers, typing in a javascript wysiwyg text box is unbearably slow.
The solution? Switch to Opera or Chromium. Google’s chrome browser has one of the fastest Javascript engines around (next to safari’s), and although it’s still ‘unstable’, it’s quite usable for most people’s browsing needs.
Opera is available here, while chromium is available from google’s developer channel here.
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