MozillaFirebird question

TheWhiteKnight · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 9:27 pm Post subject: MozillaFirebird question

Well, great news. Finally got Gentoo screaming over here on this lappy. It is faster than any OS I have ever ran. I have xcdroast, grip, MOzillaFirebird, etc installed. Now, I installed the flash-6 player from Macromedia. Mozilla seems to run a little slower than what I would like it to though. Also it plays Flash files really slow. My fiance (I'm breaking her into the non-MS world too =] ) went to miniclip.com over a super-fast cable conection (4MB down over 2MB up) Just wondering if this is normal for performance to suffer with the flash player installed or is something up here? I have firebird .7. Thanks to all who have made my Gentoo installation as painles as possible and thanks for answerig all of my persisitant questions.

- Josh

fp2099 · Apprentice Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Posts: 261

i don't use the macromedia package i use netscape-flash plugin and i experience the same problem (but only on heavly loaded pages, like 5 flash at the same time)... i suppose it a plugin problem since MozillaFirebird behaves pretty well....

monotux · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 10:43 pm Post subject:

no, the flash linux client is quite slow.
I haven't found any good solution for this either :-(

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Visceral · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 1:01 am Post subject:

I installed last night and it's WAY slow. I usually don't use it anyway because of alll the add traffic these days that make use of it. My suggestion: Don't even install it unless you must.

triad · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 4:43 am Post subject:

Yea Visceral is right. To many Flash Ads these days. What a waste for a good piece of software. Plus it is DOG slow on Firebird (My CPU usage shoots above 70% when flash is going). I just keep the plugin out of the /opt/netscape/plugins directory until i really need to view something in Flash.

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Visceral · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 5:35 am Post subject:

There is an extension out there called Flash click to view that will place a generic "Click to view flash" text message instead of any flash that gets loaded...but my experience is that the browser response is still way sluggish.