Firefox 3 runs faster on Linux+Wine than on Linux -- comparative to running on Windows

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Fri Feb 13 10:06:18 CST 2009


On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Reece Dunn <msclrhd at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For those not monitoring slashdot [1], there is an article [2] that is
> comparing the Google V8 benchmark on Windows and Linux versions of
> Firefox 3.
>
> The result of this is that the Windows and Wine runs are pretty close
> (241 vs 227) when compared to the Linux run (181) and Opera (155).
>
> I wonder what the results are like on Firefox 3.1 with tracemonkey
> enabled on Windows, Wine and Linux.
>
> [1] http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/13/0058251
> [2] http://www.tuxradar.com/content/browser-benchmarks-2-even-wine-beats-linux-firefox
>
> - Reece
>
>
>

Neat!

I've noticed it being a bit faster here as well. I have to use Wine +
Firefox to access one of my course's website, because it refuses to
work on Ubuntu + Firefox. Even user agent spoofing won't allow it to
work...

-- 
-Austin



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