Matthew Wild wrote: > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Chris Rowson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> My little boy likes playing various flash based games from children's >> websites. I find that in Ubuntu, many of these run pretty badly and as >> this is all he uses my old laptop for, I decided to put Windows XP >> back onto it to see the if it would make any difference for him. >> >> I've just installed Firefox 3 Beta 5, Flash and a Java runtime >> environment and seen how it runs. >> >> Strangely Firefox runs about twice as fast under Win XP than on Hardy >> (although Hardy is on a laptop which is twice as powerful). Rendering >> and application response are greatly improved under Windows and Flash >> content flys. >> >> I'm bamboozled to say the least! >> >> Are these particular applications created specifically for Windows >> then ported to Linux? It's wierd, I've tried this on different >> hardware and find it to be the case on the machines I've tested. >> >> I wondered if anyone else has tried this out or have any reasons why >> it would be so? >> >> > > If you are only talking about when flash pages are open, then yes, I > notice it too. My CPU is constantly at about 10%. > > This is to be expected, Flash is closed-source after all, and you are > trusting a company that probably doesn't see its Linux user-base as > significant as the Windows one. > > Can't wait for Gnash to become a real alternative, until then I use > Flash as little as possible :) > > Matthew. > > Yeah, I cant wait for gnash to gather speed... Im sick of having to force 32bit firefox, just so I can go on youtube!
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