[ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

[Jmaes Edward Grabham]

Matthew Wild wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Chris Rowson
> <christopherrowson at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi there,
>>
>>  My little boy likes playing various flash based games from children's
>>  websites. I find that in Ubuntu, many of these run pretty badly and as
>>  this is all he uses my old laptop for, I decided to put Windows XP
>>  back onto it to see the if it would make any difference for him.
>>
>>  I've just installed Firefox 3 Beta 5, Flash and a Java runtime
>>  environment and seen how it runs.
>>
>>  Strangely Firefox runs about twice as fast under Win XP than on Hardy
>>  (although Hardy is on a laptop which is twice as powerful). Rendering
>>  and application response are greatly improved under Windows and Flash
>>  content flys.
>>
>>  I'm bamboozled to say the least!
>>
>>  Are these particular applications created specifically for Windows
>>  then ported to Linux? It's wierd, I've tried this on different
>>  hardware and find it to be the case on the machines I've tested.
>>
>>  I wondered if anyone else has tried this out or have any reasons why
>>  it would be so?
>>
>>     
>
> If you are only talking about when flash pages are open, then yes, I
> notice it too. My CPU is constantly at about 10%.
>
> This is to be expected, Flash is closed-source after all, and you are
> trusting a company that probably doesn't see its Linux user-base as
> significant as the Windows one.
>
> Can't wait for Gnash to become a real alternative, until then I use
> Flash as little as possible :)
>
> Matthew.
>
>   
Yeah, I cant wait for gnash to gather speed... Im sick of having to 
force 32bit firefox, just so I can go on youtube!