Firefox is very slow on PclinuxOs

[kjpetrie]

First of all, I don't think FF is inherently slow. It takes about five seconds to launch and then works well on my hardware. Nor does it take much CPU. My CPU usage is about 9% as I type this. I also have Kmail open and three live widgets on the desktop.

Secondly, the forum log-in works through cookies, so if you open a different browser you will have to log in again, as the cookies are stored in different places for different browsers. If you are not logged in in a browser you will be a guest and will not be able to do anything that needs you to be logged in.

What is the purpose of this thread - to ask for help in diagnosing why FF is slow on your system or just to grumble about it?

[T6]

"First of all starting a sentence with "You should" anything really isn't the way to go on this forum unless you are an Administrator and even that has been rare over the years"

you haven't seen my posts isn't?         

about konqueror compared to other web browsers, it is a very good option but i have experienced problems with it going from not loading certain images to not working with flash on some sites

now, i have seen it working where others failed so it is a valid option

konqueror is a little limited if you compare it directly to the universe of addons from firefox and other web browsers but say that konqueror is not made for web browsing is going too far i think

about chrome spying on you, this has been said many times and afik it is true so please use another browser if you don't want to see your browsing history stored on google servers, iron is mentioned very often as a google free chrome browser(between other similar browsers)

opera should be considered on the list of options too, it can be configured and also there is some addons very similar to firefox, skins too

another great option that should be mentioned is seamonkey, perhaps with some compatibility problems but still a great browser

[CaptainSarcastic]

you should really use chromium, not konqueror for web browsing.
konqueror is capable, to a certain extent, as you made sure, but its NOT exactly made for web browsing.

First of all starting a sentence with "You should" anything really isn't the way to go on this forum unless you are an Administrator and even that has been rare over the years.
Second, to what extent is Konqueror not capable? Honestly, I'd like to know. And third, what exactly is Konqueror KDE4 made for? I'm just curious.
I'm not a Konqueor fanboy or trying to promote Konqueror or anything like that. I just happened to mention it in my first post because I just so happened to be using it at the time and the thread evolved from there. So could you please clarify.  

chromium does look a bit funny, but believe more like ie8, so you should be ok with it.

Yes, exactly but instead of Microsoft monitoring and logging all your activity Google does with even newer technology and proficiency than Microsoft could have.

This is somewhat off-topic, but Chromium does not have the privacy issues that Chrome does - it's closer to Iron in terms of privacy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Differences_between_Chromium_and_Google_Chrome