[X2Go-User] Web browser performance over X2Go

[Robert Dinse]

      I wonder if the issue isn't specific to Windows 10, I am using Firefox 50,
the development version, on a Ubuntu 16.04 workstation (an old Mac Pro 1,1
with Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit) and I do not see any issues with lag.

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On Sat, 27 Aug 2016, Jordan Sokolic wrote:

> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 12:34:32 +0300
> From: Jordan Sokolic <jordan at twiggle.com>
> To: x2go-user at lists.x2go.org
> Subject: [X2Go-User] Web browser performance over X2Go
> 
> Hello,
> I use a web frontend for work that runs locally on my server over X2Go for
> about one year with success.
> Some months ago I noticed a significant decrease in performance when using
> Firefox. My server is running Ubuntu 16.04 with MATE desktop, Windows 10
> client. Up to Firefox version 39.0.3 performance of loading pages,
> scrolling, browsing etc. was nearly flawless over a 5Mbit WAN link (with
> the exception of embedded video elements). However it seems the release of
> Firefox version 40.0 introduced some changes in rendering (see
> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/40.0/releasenotes/) that do not play
> nice with X2Go. Further reduction in performance was noticed in versions
> 46.0 and 48.0. The current release (48.0) even has trouble rendering a
> plain text document without lag and choppiness.
> I have tried toggling various flags relating to graphics, compositing,
> rendering, etc. to no avail.
> To work around this problem the only solution I have found is to forward
> ports over a separate SSH tunnel and browse locally, but this is cumbersome
> to set up every time I need to connect.
> I have preferred Firefox to Chrome over X2Go because the latter has always
> been unusably slow; now they are both similarly choppy and slow.
> Has anyone else noticed this?
> Any advice or help would be appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> Jordan
>