[NYLoCo] Gutsy preview

[Brandon Peterman]

I turned off compiz fusion and restarted Firefox, and the tab-switching log
completely disappeared. It's definitely releated to the visual effects.
Maybe I'll check which compiz plugins could be affecting firefox later.

On 10/17/07, Zach Stern <zach at wordrockets.com> wrote:
>
> Do NOT use swiftfox. Its not free as in freedom. The swiftfox license
> forbids distribution of binaries by anybody except the guy who makes it.
> Source is still availible however. Still...its lame.
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "William Egert" <begert at gmail.com>
>
> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:56:38
> To:"US New York LoCo Team" <ubuntu-us-ny at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: [NYLoCo] Gutsy preview
>
>
> I would be interested in the results.
>
> I has:
> 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo
> 2 GB Ram
> Nvidia something :P
>
>
>
> On 10/17/07, Brandon Peterman <
> brpeterman at gmail.com <mailto:brpeterman at gmail.com> > wrote:Swiftfox, eh?
> I'll give it a try. I use it on my low-end box back home (when I use it at
> all), but I hadn't thought about it here. Thanks for the tip.
>
> I haven't tested the situation extensively, so I'll just let you know my
> specs:
> GNOME Desktop Environment
> 1.5 GHz Core 2 Duo processor
> 1 GB RAM
> 128 MB Nvidia GeForce Go 8400 GS
>
> Maybe I'll do some testing later today.
>
>
>
> On 10/17/07, Jeffrey Knight <jeffrey.knight at gmail.com <mailto:
> jeffrey.knight at gmail.com> > wrote: Any screens with the ajax
> background-goes-grey-popup-div on firefox
> slow my entire system to such a crawl it's almost unusable (dual core
> thinkpad T60).Netflix has one, Movable Type has one, and the
>
> ASP.NET <http://ASP.NET>
> forums has one for entering source code.I'm on Fiesty, so I hope
> it's not worse on Gutsy!
>
>
> On 10/17/07, William Egert <
> begert at gmail.com <mailto:begert at gmail.com> > wrote:
> > I agree with the Firefox slowdown, it was giving me some weirdness.I
> > decided to remove it via aptitude and add Swiftfox to my sources.listand
> > install that instead (
>
> http://getswiftfox.com/debian.htm <http://getswiftfox.com/debian.htm>  ).
> >This went flawlessly and I saw a definite increase in speed and
> > performance, all my extensions were still present as well :)
> >
> > -Bill
> >
>
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