Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:27:41 -0400
To: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
Cc: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe.alfaro@gmail.com>,
       linux cbon <linuxcbon@yahoo.fr>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: replacing X Window System !
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On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 10:46:57AM +0200, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> It is slow. Just take any older machine (Pentium class), open any longer 
> web page in Firefox and scroll it up and down. Or open some other 
> window, move it around the screen on top of the Firefox window and see 
> how "fast" it really is. Then repeat the same in Windows.
> How can Xgl help here?

Would a pentium class machine even run firefox on windows?

I think there is something very wrong with how firefox manages it's page
rendering and scrolling.  It certainly eats a ton of ram with whatever
it is doing.

Len Sorensen
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