Mark Fletcher wrote: > Is the browser slow generally or specifically when you watch videos? > > If the latter it may, unintuitively, be a problem with your audio > driver [1] (like some incompatibility with the newer version of firefox > or some misconfiguration somewhere). > > Worth looking at your graphics but also your audio setup, and how > firefox is configured to use them? What happens if you try to watch a > video (any old video) some other way? > > Mark > > [1] when mplayer has problems playing a video because not enough > resources available, it often suggests the problem could actually be the > audio driver. I'm basing this advice on the premise that the guys who > wrote mplayer know more about this stuff than me. I've followed that > advice to great effect in the past.
hmm - very good idea - I'll check next I only see firefox eating much of the CPU (load goes to 2-3), but of course it could be also pulseaudio related or whatever in that chain. Where do I find out how firefox is configured to use video/audio? regards