On 04/10/12 17:02, Colin Law wrote:
On 4 October 2012 16:43, Gareth France <gareth.fra...@gmail.com> wrote:
Try chromium browser to see if that is better. FF can be processor
hungry. Choosing the right apps may be more important than the
distribution.
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
Colin
As much as I appreciate what you're saying don't you think something is very
wrong here? On my antique Dell I would routinely have Vuze open downloading,
firefox running up to 6 or 7 tabs, VLC playing music or video, Thunderbird
and Calc with up to 2 spreadsheets, one of them has 2 sheets each with 3600
lines of data in them. That machine coped fine, if it wasn't for the lack of
battery and dodgy power socket I'd much rather be using that.
Any brand new machine, however badly designed, should be capable of
outperforming something which came with 60Gb HDD and no more than 1Gb RAM.
You are right, there is something wrong, having looked at the
processor it should not have the problems you are describing. I run
it on a 5 year old Intel T1350, 1.86GHz with 2GB RAM without such
issues. Is it only when running FF you see performance issues?
What difference, if any, do you think using 64 bit would make?
None worth talking about.
Colin
I haven't tried another browser. When I get off this tonka toy 3G
connection I'll download a few others and try.
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