[CentOS] Firefox slower on GMail since update to CentOS 5.5

[Les Mikesell]

On 5/27/2010 1:00 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
>
>>
>>> I had somewhat similar problems. This is a shot in the dark, but do
>>> you happen to have a Nvidia controller in your system? If
>> so, you may
>>> have been affected by this bug:
>>>
>>> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4335
>>>
>>> There is a workaround which solved the problem for me.
>>
>> Thanks for the hint!
>> I tried the workaround but unfortunately I still have the problem...
>
> I cured my nvidia driver problems (which re-arose every kernel update or
> re-compile) by putting in an ATI video card.  Problems since then = 0
>
> nvidia is not fond of the Linux world (compared to ATI).

A more realistic way to say that is that linux is intentionally 
incompatible with a lot of other software.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com