@Victor Trac, Leading from your suggestion about Swiftfox, I also notice a conspicuous speed increase using Google Calc with Swiftfox (in particular swiftfox-pentium-m package). Be warned, I also found a bug with huge icons/menu widgets/font size using Swiftfox under Ubuntu/GNOME: http://forums.getswiftfox.com/viewtopic.php?t=306
Bear in mind the current version of Swiftfox (3.0b3pre-1) derives from Firefox 3, which has a known speed improvement over Firefox 2 (current Ubuntu version 2.0.0.11+2nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10), so the speedup may actually be in the Firefox source that Swiftfox is compiled from. Furthermore, you will also see a speed increase on your Dell laptop if you install the ATI driver fglrx (package xorg-driver-fglrx) and enable Xv overlay. My HP laptop display (uses ATI RADEON chipset, like yours) got noticeably faster with the ATI driver, even for simple window operations like task switching and scrolling. You can check the framerate of your display with the glxgears application. Anything under 1000FPS probably indicates your display is not working optimally. -- Firefox eats 100% of CPU when opens a spreadsheet in google's documents and spreadsheets https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/95078 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
