[X2Go-User] x2go and Ubuntu 18.04 server

[Stefan Baur]

Am 01.03.19 um 00:50 schrieb Robert Dinse:
> 
>      Yep might be a good thing to do.  It would be better if it still had
> the efficiency it had in the early days.  Early implementations of x2go, I
> could fire up firefox on the server and watch a video and for the most
> part it was smooth.  These days I only get about 10 frames per second,
> something has slowed.

Uh, yes, we've been discussing this on the list quite a while ago.  It's
not an X2Go issue, but a Firefox issue - they changed their rendering
engine to something that is super fast on a local machine, but is slow
as molasses on remote connections.  The only option used to be Pale Moon
- a Firefox fork - that kept the old engine, but only up to version 27.
 28 is broken as well, and we could currently use some more funding
and/or additional manpower for the ongoing research/development project
to get PM 28 up to speed again.

See the thread "Firefox Browser Performance via X2Go - and a call for
help on behalf of X2Go and Pale Moon" dated "28.10.17, 13:26" in the
list archives:
<http://lists.x2go.org/pipermail/x2go-user/2017-October/004601.html>
(Initial crosspost to X2Go-User and X2Go-Dev)
<http://lists.x2go.org/pipermail/x2go-dev/2017-October/012168.html>
(Thread on X2Go-Dev, with a sole reply by Ulrich Sibiller).

Since there were no other replies back then, we were on our own, so work
is proceeding veeeery sloooowly.

-Stefan

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