On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > My little boy likes playing various flash based games from children's > websites. I find that in Ubuntu, many of these run pretty badly and as > this is all he uses my old laptop for, I decided to put Windows XP > back onto it to see the if it would make any difference for him. > > I've just installed Firefox 3 Beta 5, Flash and a Java runtime > environment and seen how it runs. > > Strangely Firefox runs about twice as fast under Win XP than on Hardy > (although Hardy is on a laptop which is twice as powerful). Rendering > and application response are greatly improved under Windows and Flash > content flys. > > I'm bamboozled to say the least! > > Are these particular applications created specifically for Windows > then ported to Linux? It's wierd, I've tried this on different > hardware and find it to be the case on the machines I've tested. > > I wondered if anyone else has tried this out or have any reasons why > it would be so? >
If you are only talking about when flash pages are open, then yes, I notice it too. My CPU is constantly at about 10%. This is to be expected, Flash is closed-source after all, and you are trusting a company that probably doesn't see its Linux user-base as significant as the Windows one. Can't wait for Gnash to become a real alternative, until then I use Flash as little as possible :) Matthew. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
