Firefox + JavaScript + Linux = BAD?
It can’t be so, yet it appears to be, at least on my box running Ubuntu Edgy Eft… In trying to use Google Docs, Firefox repeatedly freezes and or takes forever to respond when using spreadsheets online. This could be a problem with the JS on Google Docs, but it runs fine on Firefox and IE on Windows. I have also experienced this problem on other sites that make use of Javascript. On a site that I developed which uses Thickbox, Friefox on Linux takes its sweet time bringing up the images, but runs smoothly for FF on Wndows. I experienced the same problem on this site with a different Linux box that was running Fedora Core 4, so its not just this distro or version of Firefox. There is mention over at O’Reilly about FF crashing on Linux, but that isn’t the problem I am having. It’s simply a matter of Firefox taking forever for certain sites with JavaScript.