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You're ignoring the many slow computers that are still out there in the world, but perhaps your market won't encompass those. I have an old PC. 1.8GHz Celeron.

You're ignoring the many slow computers that are still out there in the world, but perhaps your market won't encompass those. I have an old PC. 1.8GHz Celeron. YouTube complained all the time that I should get a "modern" browser. I was using Firefox 2.x -- which was faster for me than the latest Chrome. Also, Fox could play YT videos, while Chrome and even Safari could not. (I'd tried Fox 3.x early on, but it slowed the entire PC to a crawl and I had to rollback to 2.x!) I forget what frustration I encountered a week ago, but it finally drove me to try Opera. Let me tell you that Opera is sooooo wicked fast on this old PC that it's as if I've had an entire hardware upgrade. I'm not connected with Opera at all, just incredibly happy in using it. Now I can visit sites I had to avoid in the past due to multiple JScript errors (Gizmodo, io9, and the like). If people are hesitant to switch browsers, suggest they try Opera at least once. As usual, TMMV.

ergo14 16y ago
Well, I can only say that I don't plan to put anything resource intensive to the layout, i'd risk to say that the website should work fast for you, not sure how well it would look on 2.x, but keep in mind that YT uses flash that is main resource hog(especially on linux). I'm pretty confident that it would run fine on your pc with firefox - because my android phone can run it ;-) That makes me think now i should install fennec on my phone and see how that works.
- mikecane 16y ago
  >>>because my android phone can run it ;-) Sorry, but no. I've actually had to transfer some AVIs to my LifeDrive (400Mhz CPU) to play them because they'd be cloggy when using vlc on this PC! (Yes, I've scanned for malware; done plenty of officially recommended optimizing stuff -- which, btw, I should have also said I'm at XP SP2, because SP3 made this machine crawl too!) It could also be I have the crappiest PC on earth, one of very few.
  - ergo14 16y ago
    My phone has 560mhz procesor, hadly processing power of your pc. If you are having issues of this kind, maybe thermal sensor on your cpu is broken and cpu is slowing down because it things it has temperature problems, or bad drivers? That 1.8ghz celeron should be fine for majority of tasks. Maybe you could try downloading ubuntu live image and test there if the problem persists(its free)? Then you would at least know if it's not a problem with your operating system.
    - mikecane 16y ago
      Funny you should mention thermal. Had to replace heatsink retention module recently. But that didn't help anything, really. It's just XP being all clogged up from years of use. Can't do clean re-install. Point of no return.

ergo14 16y ago

Well, I can only say that I don't plan to put anything resource intensive to the layout, i'd risk to say that the website should work fast for you, not sure how well it would look on 2.x, but keep in mind that YT uses flash that is main resource hog(especially on linux). I'm pretty confident that it would run fine on your pc with firefox - because my android phone can run it ;-) That makes me think now i should install fennec on my phone and see how that works.

mikecane 16y ago
>>>because my android phone can run it ;-) Sorry, but no. I've actually had to transfer some AVIs to my LifeDrive (400Mhz CPU) to play them because they'd be cloggy when using vlc on this PC! (Yes, I've scanned for malware; done plenty of officially recommended optimizing stuff -- which, btw, I should have also said I'm at XP SP2, because SP3 made this machine crawl too!) It could also be I have the crappiest PC on earth, one of very few.
- ergo14 16y ago
  My phone has 560mhz procesor, hadly processing power of your pc. If you are having issues of this kind, maybe thermal sensor on your cpu is broken and cpu is slowing down because it things it has temperature problems, or bad drivers? That 1.8ghz celeron should be fine for majority of tasks. Maybe you could try downloading ubuntu live image and test there if the problem persists(its free)? Then you would at least know if it's not a problem with your operating system.
  - mikecane 16y ago
    Funny you should mention thermal. Had to replace heatsink retention module recently. But that didn't help anything, really. It's just XP being all clogged up from years of use. Can't do clean re-install. Point of no return.