Howabout AbiWord? I was trying to type something, and line-by-line scrolling took two or three seconds per line. Blech.
On 7/18/05, Andrew Baudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have noticed in my personal experience that Firefox is a dog on > anything less than 1Ghz. YMMV. > > I recently installed ubuntu on a Cel533/192MB and the 'Fox was slow on a > 2MB vid card. > > Joseph Fruchey wrote: > > >Any ideas what else could be causing it? I took a little video of me > >scrolling on the BRLUG site (with my daugher making noise in the > >background) that I'll try to post later today just for the hell of it. > > > >On 7/16/05, Will Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>No, that should be OK and it indicates something else is wrong. Even 1MB > >>cards perform fast enough for XFCE and other nimble window managers. > >> > >>On Saturday 16 July 2005 05:57 pm, Joseph Fruchey wrote: > >> > >> > >>>The worst thing on this machine is the 2MB VRAM, which I'm assuming is > >>>what's causing the slow refreshes on scrolling in Firefox or whatever > >>>else. > >>> > >>> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>General mailing list > >>[email protected] > >>http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >> > >> > >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >General mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
