On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Dave Morley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 17:21 +0100, Jmaes Edward Grabham wrote: > > 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! > > > You don't need to with hardy it installs npwrapper which allows 32bit > apps to run inside 64bit so flash and wine both work. > -- > Seek That Thy Might Know >
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