Re: why is firefox such a CPU hog?

2009-11-17 Thread Robert Arkiletian
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Scott Balneaves wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 04:57:31PM -0800, john wrote: > >> I just got to wondering (in an idle sort of way) why applications like >> openoffice  which is so much bigger than firefox seem to run just fine >> with 24 copies open and firefox d

Re: why is firefox such a CPU hog?

2009-11-17 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:43:26AM -0800, john wrote: > That's a pretty damning indictment. So is supporting gnash someway the > direction forward in your opinion? Or some other approach? Well, since you *asked* :) 1) First and foremost, we, as a (I dunno what you'd call us) "the viewing public"

Re: why is firefox such a CPU hog?

2009-11-17 Thread john
Hi Gavin, On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > > The number of documents which OpenOffice users would have which has >50 > images, several of which are probably animated as well as an embedded > video or flash applet, is probably quite small. > > I might be wrong but, I'd gu

Re: why is firefox such a CPU hog?

2009-11-17 Thread john
Hey Scott, On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Scott Balneaves wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 04:57:31PM -0800, john wrote: > Well, I think firefox will too.  Here's a test: get your 24 students to JUST > browse around on a site that doesn't involve any Java, or flash.  Something > like wikipedia

Re: why is firefox such a CPU hog?

2009-11-17 Thread Scott Balneaves
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 04:57:31PM -0800, john wrote: > I just got to wondering (in an idle sort of way) why applications like > openoffice which is so much bigger than firefox seem to run just fine > with 24 copies open and firefox doesn't? Well, I think firefox will too. Here's a test: get yo

Re: why is firefox such a CPU hog?

2009-11-17 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi john john wrote: > Thanks in advance for your ideas! I am personally also quite frustrated with Firefox performance issues- and that's just on a standalone machine. I installed Chromium from the daily build PPA's and it's shaping up very nicely. Performance-wise it's definitely better than Fir

Re: why is firefox such a CPU hog?

2009-11-17 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, john wrote: > I just got to wondering (in an idle sort of way) why applications like > openoffice which is so much bigger than firefox seem to run just fine > with 24 copies open and firefox doesn't? I'd say it's down to the complexity and number of documents that the

UDS Dallas - LTSP goals for Lucid

2009-11-17 Thread Asmo Koskinen
LTSP goals for Lucid Dallas time: 17.11 10.00 (UTC/GMT -6 hours) Check your local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=70 https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-lucid-ltsp http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-l/lone1/ Audio: http://icecast.ubuntu.com:8000/s