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From: Ron Hunter <rphun...@charter.net>
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Subject: Re: Vast SiteREF:  Performance Difference between Firefox, Chrome
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On 10/29/2012 10:33 AM, WaltS wrote:
> On 10/29/2012 11:16 AM, Ron Hunter wrote:
>> On 10/29/2012 3:12 AM, Sailfish wrote:
>>> My bloviated meandering follows what Ron Hunter graced us with on
>>> 10/28/2012 11:39 PM:
>>>> On 10/28/2012 1:42 PM, Sailfish wrote:
>>>>> REF: http://mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/threejs/css3d/periodictable/
>>>>>
>>>>> Environment: i7 2600K, 8GB RAM, ATI HD 6800 series graphics card
>>>>> Browsers: Fx 17.0b3, Chrome 22.0.1229.94, Safari 5.1.7
>>>>>
>>>>> This referenced site is dog slow (even with Hardware Acceleration
>>>>> enabled) using Firefox (and even crashes Firefox when I select the
>>>>> GRID
>>>>> option.) However, the site works swimmingly when using either
>>>>> Chrome or
>>>>> Safari.
>>>>>
>>>>> I suspect it's a Javascript issue but, honestly, the performance
>>>>> difference seems to be an order of magnitude in difference, at least.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ideas?
>>>>>
>>>> I see the same, except it doesn't crash on 'grid' here.  Definitely
>>>> something going on with the Javascript.
>>>>
>>> Yeah, the difference is so dramatic, it makes me question all of the
>>> recent proclamations about the strides Mozilla has made in Javascript
>>> performance improvements.
>>>
>>> With the number of confirmation here, I've filed a bug:
>>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=806295
>>>
>> Is it Javascript, or HTML5?  At least Firefox manages to make a try at
>> it, unlike Opera, and IE9, which do NOTHING.
>>
>
> The Doctype used is the HTML5 Doctype, with the content in the Body
> element mostly JavaScript.
>
That may lead to a solution.  Maybe the two functions aren't 
communicating well, or playing nice with the processor time.