[ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

[James Grabham]

Oh yeah,  found this on ubuntuforums

"I fixed this problem by removing ia32-libs, flashplugin-nonfree and
nspluginwrapper, then installing ia32-libs_2.1ubuntu3_amd64.deb from
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...e/i/ia32-libs/ (It is an older
version than what installs in apt-get), then installing flashplugin-nonfree.
Thanks."

I followed it, and now it works =D

On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Dave Morley <davmor2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 17:21 +0100, Jmaes Edward Grabham wrote:
> > 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!
> >
> You don't need to with hardy it installs npwrapper which allows 32bit
> apps to run inside 64bit so flash and wine both work.
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