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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