atrocious performance of adobe reader plugin

[Johnneylee Rollins]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Dave Howorth <dhoworth at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> I recently installed karmic, together with firefox and adobe reader with
> its plugin. I'm finding that the performance when viewing PDF documents
> in a firefox window is truly atrocious.

I prefer the default PDF reader in Ubuntu, which is evince.
t's really nice and does a lot of cool things, imo.

>
> I'm running across our LAN - firefox is on one machine with karmic,
> while X is running on another machine on my desktop. I start firefox
> with ssh -X.

If you need to use a web browser across a lan, I'd probably go with
something a little faster, epiphany is my main browser because of it's
speed and small footprint.

>
> I experience very long delays when saving documents but most especially
> when printing them. The system monitor on the display machine is showing
> lots of network activity, some user CPU activity but also noticeable
> kernel activity on the display machine. I'm at a loss to understand why
> there would be any activity at all on the display machine when printing.
> I do have javascript disabled for PDF and often also for the sites from
> which they were downloaded.
>
> Has anybody come across this before? Any suggestions for ways around it
> (alternative software etc)?

You are using CUPS on the linux machine right? Or am I wrong and
missed something?

~SpaceGhost