I have used Mozilla browsers on Linux since Netscape Navigator. I'm
currently using Seamonkey 2.9.1, but I have noticed this problem for
many versions.
If I go to a graphics intensive site like maps.google.com or
www.zillow.com, Seamonkey saturates one of my processor's cores and it
becomes very slow to respond. Specifically, on maps.google.com, changing
from the map display to the satellite display is painfully slow. Zillow
just saturates one of my processor's cores most of the time.
I thought it might be a problem with Seamonkey, so I tried Firefox. Same
results.
I recalled Netscape 4.79 not having the problem, but I don't have the
correct libraries to run it.
I tried Opera 11.64 this afternoon and it does NOT have the problem.
Apparently the code that does the graphics for Seamonkey/Firefox assumes
one has a super-humongous gaming graphics card. I do not. I have an EVGA
256-P2-N751-TR Geforce 8600gt 256mb 128-bit, which isn't the slowest
card on the market. Its specs are:
Manufacturer:nVidia
Series:GeForce 8
GPU:G84
Release Date:2007-04-17
Interface:PCI-E x16
Core Clock:540 MHz
Shader Clock:1180 MHz
Memory Clock:700 MHz (1400 DDR)
Memory Bandwidth:22.4 GB/sec
FLOPS:113.28 GFLOPS
Pixel Fill Rate:4320 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate:8640 MTexels/sec
The performance I am seeing is not acceptable.
I like Seamonkey, particularly the way NoScript integrates with it. I'd
rather not use Opera.
Is there any fix for this?
Thanks,
Craig
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