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

[Ed Stewart]

Very nice smooth and quick here using Ubuntu 7.10 and Firefox 2.0.0.8 
Patrick!!! Ed

Tom Rhodes wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:35:21 -0500
> 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
>>
>>     
>
> The bubbles are not as slow as the apple; however, they aren't
> super fast and "smooth" either.  The images go great though,
> I really dig them.  Unfortunately, I also have some malloc()
> and kernel debugging stuff turned on:
>
> %uname -a
> FreeBSD localhost.fbsdsecure.org 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Nov  1 22:35:18 EDT 2007     trhodes at localhost.fbsdsecure.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MOBILE  i386
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This correspondence creating using Ubuntu Linux version
7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon". No help needed from Microsoft!
Ed Stewart
Reynoldsville, PA
15851