On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Bill Crawford wrote:
On Friday 24 April 2009 11:08:15 Riku Seppälä wrote:
Christopher Beland wrote:
Weren't you having video driver issues?
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 05:41 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
seriously, firefox is still entirely unusable. i've added the noscript plugin to filter out junk and yet, even scrolling on a web page is painful.
with seamonkey, scrolling is
*scroll* *scroll* *scroll* ...
with firefox, it's
*scroll* wait wait wait *scroll* wait wait wait *scroll* ...
i can't be the only person seeing this, and i can't be the only person who's pretty much given up on this dog of a piece of software. thoughts?
rday
Well if it works with seamonkey, then it can't be video driver issue?
Yes, it can.
Program A uses feature X. Program B uses feature Y. Driver has a bug in feature Y.
i'm willing to entertain suggestions for tests. just now, i had one invocation of firefox and one invocation of seamonkey running. i terminated seamonkey, and it went away. i terminated firefox and it's still sitting there, in limbo, with the "quit firefox" dialog only partially displayed on the screen, after 30 seconds, utterly unresponsive.
as i said, i'm open to suggestions but, at this point, firefox seems to be totally unusable on this system.
rday --
p.s oh, the "quit firefox" dialog finally finished drawing on the display -- more than 60 seconds after i asked it to quit. that strikes me as moderately poor response time.
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