Hi Gavin, On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Gavin McCullagh <[email protected]> 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 guess that if 24 of your users had a single > firefox tab open with a locally stored, plain text webpage with some > formatting and a couple of images, you'd probably find firefox behaving > very well. Point well taken. > You're not seeing rough edges in linux, you're seeing rough edges in Flash. > If you had a Windows machine with 25 users running firefox+flash (or > IE+flash) on it, I suspect you'd see problems there too. It is possible > (likely even) that Flash is better tuned for Windows than linux but sadly, > the only people who can address that are Adobe (or possibly gnash, who are > trying). I'll be looking into gnash. > > Most people seem to be saying that Flash is likely the problem. I know for > a fact that flash loads in a lot more instances than people realise. If > your users could be convinced, it would be interesting to remove flash > entirely for a day, just to see what effect it has. If you didn't see an > improvement, then there's something wrong with firefox and we have some > chance of addressing that. If Flash is the problem, adding the Flashblock > plugin would be a half-way point, where flash only loads on those pages > which users want it to. I hear what your saying. I'll look at this approach as well. As I mentioned I am also looking at getting Karmic + a more robust TC into service as well. I appreciate all of these insights. I feel smarter already! John -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
