Comments on: Firefox Scaling Zoom Kills Performance http://kevinfrancis.net/journal/2009/03/firefox-scaling-zoom-kills-performance/ the occasional journal of kevin francis Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:45:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kevin Francis http://kevinfrancis.net/journal/2009/03/firefox-scaling-zoom-kills-performance/comment-page-1/#comment-787 Kevin Francis Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:58:34 +0000 http://kevinfrancis.net/journal/?p=180#comment-787 <p>I get eye strain pretty easily. I run a laptop with the display set to 120DPI and NoSquint set to 120% because I feel most comfortable at that level (I'd prefer 130% but Windows fonts are ugly at that size).</p> <p>I can't say that I'm surprised that scaling zoom would slow things down as it's forcing Firefox to scale each and every tab (of which I have quite a few open) and I'm running some built-in Intel GMA thing rather than a discreet graphics card. Aero alone seems to strain it.</p> I get eye strain pretty easily. I run a laptop with the display set to 120DPI and NoSquint set to 120% because I feel most comfortable at that level (I’d prefer 130% but Windows fonts are ugly at that size).

I can’t say that I’m surprised that scaling zoom would slow things down as it’s forcing Firefox to scale each and every tab (of which I have quite a few open) and I’m running some built-in Intel GMA thing rather than a discreet graphics card. Aero alone seems to strain it.

]]> By: Asa Dotzler http://kevinfrancis.net/journal/2009/03/firefox-scaling-zoom-kills-performance/comment-page-1/#comment-786 Asa Dotzler Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:59:39 +0000 http://kevinfrancis.net/journal/?p=180#comment-786 <p>I zoom a lot of sites (but not all) and don't see any significant performance problems with Firefox 3.0 or Firefox 3.1. I encourage you to test just manually zooming the most important sites (or using "minimum font size" in preferences) rather than a catch-all plug-in like NoSquint. I think you'll get better results. </p> <p>As for <em>performant</em>, the English language is alive and well and adds new words all the time. "Performant" is a useful term and I expect it to become standard before too long. :-)</p> <ul> <li>A</li> </ul> I zoom a lot of sites (but not all) and don’t see any significant performance problems with Firefox 3.0 or Firefox 3.1. I encourage you to test just manually zooming the most important sites (or using “minimum font size” in preferences) rather than a catch-all plug-in like NoSquint. I think you’ll get better results.

As for performant, the English language is alive and well and adds new words all the time. “Performant” is a useful term and I expect it to become standard before too long. :-)

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