I just switched to fvwm this morning and it's night-and-day faster than xfce. Hard to believe it's the same computer. I'm going to have to spend some quality time with the fvwm manpage because I've never used it much beyond launching xterm to install another window manager :)
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Edgar Pettijohn <ed...@pettijohn-web.com> wrote: > I don't have any problems with Firefox on -current with Fvwm2. I switched > to Fvwm because Xfce was getting unmanageable. After about a week when I > got my config just right it is much easier and faster than Xfce just not as > pretty. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Apr 18, 2016, at 3:13 PM, Daniel Boyd <dan...@boydemail.com> wrote: > > > > Thanks -- I will give xombrero a shot. Definitely need javascript > support > > as I am currently composing this in Gmail and do quite a bit of > > javscript-based web development :) > > > >> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 1:31 PM, <arrowscr...@mail.com> wrote: > >> > >> I think the problem is with firefox itself. > >> tedu@ wrote a post about this: > >> http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/firefox-vs-rthreads > >> > >> Since the code is so bloated, no one will ever waste time trying to fix > >> all the issues. Just switch to some other browser, there's plenty of > >> options. > >> I'm using Links 2.12 on -stable and it works fine for my needs. But > >> there's also Xombrero if you need javascript support.
