Firefox Running Slow in Linux

[Tim]

On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 13:08 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> So one needs a highend, fully supported video card to scroll properly
> in Firefox/Linux?

Shouldn't really be so.  But, you will be shovelling many megabytes
around when scrolling a page.

e.g. 1280 x 800 pixels x 32 bits (colour) x number of screens/pages

The system needs to be reasonably fast to manage it.  Even more so when
the content is animated.

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