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this may help with mozilla http://www.ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-3478.html On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 23:40 +0100, Ben Goodger wrote: > Hi > > I have been using Linux for a long while now and certain things still > really irritate me. Here are some questions. > > 1. Is it so difficult for Linux to not turn Num Lock off six or seven > times during the transition from GRUB to GNOME? It keeps turning it > off, at every opportunity. > 2. Why does scrolling upward in Firefox result in going back randomly? > (USB mouse) > 3. Why does Flash have such poor audio control which more often than > not results in it being completely silenced, fixed only by restarting > ALSA? (firefox) > 4. Why do Flash and Java plugins have such poor keyboard input? Is it > so difficult to make them accept it? (firefox) > 5. Why do Flash and Java and Javascript run so much slower in Linux? > (firefox) > 6. Why does this computer, with a Radeon 9600 and fully working > hardware acceleration, have such a slow GTK redraw rate? Compared to > nearly an identical machine with a nearly identical installation of > Ubuntu, it's staggeringly slow and makes it feel sluggish. > > I suspect that many of these may have to do with my monitor's poor > refresh rate, which is stuck permanently at 60Hz in Linux - > 7. why, even when I input the horz/vert settings from its manual, can > X not get sane refresh rates while Windows obtains a comfortable 85Hz > at the same colour depth and resolution? > 8. Why, indeed, does X require me to enter these to get the thing > working at all? Is there something stopping it from achieving basic > levels of user-friendliness which were reached by Microsoft eleven > years ago or more, and Apple a good time before that? > > If anyone has anything to contribute to my de-irritation, that'd be > much appreciated. > I do like the flying toaster screensaver in Dapper though. > > -- > Ben Goodger > #391382 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html