On 18/03/2015 05:41 PM, Warp wrote:
> Orchid Win7 v1<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> I think the thing that really drove it home was that the other day I
>> happened to fire up an old VM that's running Firefox 5. It was *so much*
>> faster! I could actually look at Google Maps in *realtime*! Not with a
>> 30-second pause every time I scroll or zoom.
>
> Do you honestly think that if that were common, people wouldn't have
> noticed? (I just tested google maps with firefox, and they worked just
> fine in real-time, with no lagginess of to speak of.)
>
> Or is this another one of your exaggerations, where you express
> estimations with two orders of magnitude of exaggeration?

If it were just my home PC, I'd probably assume that something is wrong 
with my PC. Given that the PC at work does the exact same thing... and 
other people in the office have also mentioned it and switched 
browsers... I suspect it's not just me.

(Plus the fact that an older version of Firefox runs drastically faster. 
In a VM, which is typically slower...)

Maybe 30 seconds is an exaggeration. When you make a mouse gesture, and 
nothing visible happens for multiple seconds afterwards, it sure *feels* 
like several eternities.

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