James McPherson wrote: > > On 10/4/06, W. Wayne Liauh <wp at hawaiilinux.us> wrote: > > I can think of at least one reason, but would some one please check this > > site and see why it is so slow? > > > > http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/ > > > > (The problem is particularly acute in Solaris.) > > > > Is there any way to side step this problem? Thanks. > > (a) lots of shockwave flash embedded objects > (b) shockwave flash is not the most efficiently written or bug-free piece of > software
Actually this is an old, Mozilla/Gecko-specific problem - see [f] below... > (c) memory leaks. > (d) grab the flashblock extension :) > (e) hassle (blog/email/...) Macromedia (or is that Adobe now?) to fix > their software (f) crappy browser (Mozilla, Forefox etc.) which runs all plugins in a single thread. A browser which runs plugins in their own thread or process (such as Konqueror) runs that ?age very smoothly (Opera has no problems either). ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
