I’m sitting here on my brand new aluminum Mac iBook, and Firefox is just slow as an old dog. It is such a divine browser but ever so slow, especially with a jillion tool bars like I have.
I have a few opinions about what should be done if you really want to juice up Firefox. I am not planning to start a chip company anytime soon, so maybe someone over there at Intel or AMD or Apple will read this and make my life a little bit better.
BPU: Browser Processing Unit – Why are these chip makers and computer company need is browser acceleration hardware. They are talking about letting the OS leverage graphics chips, what we need is for this extra computing power to help the browser with its task, in a dedicated SD Ram cache for the environment .
I can even envision a browser card that is specifically designed to accelerate a specific browser (Firefox/gecko or Safari/webkit or IE/Microsoft whatever) sitting next to a video card in a pci-x slot. Then I won’t need an 8 core machine to have a snappy browser experience.
