[wplug] is firefox on linux just really slow with animations?

[Mackenzie Morgan]

The bubbles came up sort of one at a time then all zoomed in / became
opaque at the same time.  Lightbox looked fine (I saw a little loading
circle like in flash....that ok?)  I'm using Firefox 3 on Ubuntu.

On Nov 9, 2007 12:35 PM, Patrick Wagstrom <patrick at wagstrom.net> wrote:
> I'm currently prepping a book review for "The Open Pitt" on AJAX fun.  At
> first I thought that the scripts were poor because some of the image
> related scripts were really slow, but then I decided to see how the pages
> looked in IE under VMWare and they pages came up, animated nicely and
> provided a great effect.
>
> So here's my question: are effects such as layer fades and element resizing
> on firefox for linux really slow everywhere, or just on my computer?
>
> So, if you've got a minute visit the following two web sites and do the
> following tests:
>
> http://script.aculo.us/
>
> Do the bubbles on the page pop up nice an quickly, or does it remind you of
> an Apple ][e trying to render the graphics line by line?
>
> http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/
>
> Click on Image Set (second row of pictures).  Does the lightbox come up
> smoothly?  Does it resize nicely when you press the arrow keys?
>
>
> Here's my results:
>               script.aculo.us       lightbox
> IE 7 (win)        smooth             smooth
> Firefox 2 (win)   smooth             smooth
> Safari (win)      smooth             smooth
> Firefox 2 (linux) apple][e           apple][e
> Opera 9 (linux)   apple][gs          apple][gs
> Epiphany (linux)  apple][e           apple][e
> Konqueror (linux) apple][gs          smooth
>
> So what gives?  Firefox is clearly capable of rendering the pages nicely on
> this machine, because the VMWare install of firefox works fine.  Likewise,
> on the lightbox site, Konqueror works fine.  But for most of the other
> stuff, Linux sucks -- running the apps in VMWare is faster.
>
> So, anyone got a stab at this?  Is it just something with this machine?
>
> --Patrick
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