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Re: [LUG] Things which annoy me - scrollwheel, num lock, flash plugin, X

 

I have seem guides on the internet to fix the first two.
I had the firefox constantly going back pages problem myself. Can't
remember exactly how to fix it but I got from google


On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 23:40 +0100, Ben Goodger wrote:
> 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? 
> 


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