Improving Performance?

I use 8.10 with 512 MB of main memory and I don't have such problems.

When you say watching video, do you mean youtube?

The first thing to find out would be, whether you suffer from a CPU bottleneck, a memory bottleneck, or a network bottleneck.

as I wrote using firefox

You can try to improve Firefox performace using this app that auto optimize Firefox settings... if you it also VACUUM internal Firefox database: http://www.elart.it/ubuntu/mb_ubuntu_optimizer/index_en.php

Hth

I tried the optimizer and I think it did not solve the problem,
How can I monitor the Performance to pinpoint the Problem??

Link to another similar Question #93970 about Chrome and Firefox on Same System 9.04.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-ultimate-guide-to-speeding-up-firefox-3-5/

Firefox is a god awful browser, if you want something faster try chromium.

Also Minefield is another browser made by firefox that is much faster
than chromium but its still in beta stages :D

Regards,
Vikram

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:16 AM, actionparsnip
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This is on Jaunty. I have a few Distro's on same computer. I tried to install firefox 3.5.5 and now 3.5.6 unsuccessfully.
dnsmasq seems to help. I am used to firefox but will use Chrome and Opera too.

vikram, its not another browser. Its still firefox and is what the mozilla team always call the browsers they have way back in the wings. firefox 3.5 was called minefield for a while.

dnsmasq makes a big difference, changing a lot of the settings in about:config can improve stuff too.

Flash seems to work much better with firefox 3.0.16 and 3.5.6

I am guessing that's because of the method of update, if you do a
fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10 then the speeds are the same and if you
upgrade then that's a different story :D

Regards,
Vikram Dhillon

~~~
There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but
only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.
-- Linus Torvalds

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a word from lessons learned > tweak your system add more ram it`s simple and cheap and will improve your over system performance .