From: Randall Parker 

Geo,

Your results on Linux aren't as bad as mine. Still, you are definitely
seeing slower performance when scaling fonts.

You don't have Seamonkey or Firefox on Windows?

I wonder if getting a different graphics card would help. Maybe the one for
this Dell box's graphics chip is especially slow.

Geo wrote:
> "Randall Parker"
>

> wrote in message news:44c2856a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/cat_energy_tech.html
>>
>> This page takes 12 seconds to become bigger when I hit Ctrl+=. Then it
>> took 11 seconds to become smaller when I hit Ctrl+-.
>>
>> Geo, you want to try your Knoppix disk with that?
>
> Ok, on windows using:
>
> IE = 1 second
> crazybrowser = 1 second
> Maxthon = 1 second
> Netscape 4.78 fails to render at all probably the css stuff.
>
> On Knoppix 5
>
> Firefox - 3 seconds
> konqueror - 1 second
>
> I did all tests with the browser running full screen, running it in a window
> didn't seem to make any difference though.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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