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

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Les wrote:
> 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.

Ah, no, it's not. Brian had it right: nvidia does keep a lot proprietary,
and does *not* pay a lot of attention to writing their own drivers for
Linux.

         mark