[X2Go-User] x2go and Ubuntu 18.04 server

[Robert Dinse]

      Ok, thanks for the list.  There is not an aweful lot to like about the
current firefox.

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On Fri, 1 Mar 2019, Stefan Baur wrote:

> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 01:02:31 +0100
> From: Stefan Baur <X2Go-ML-1 at baur-itcs.de>
> To: "x2go-user at lists.x2go.org" <x2go-user at lists.x2go.org>
> Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] x2go and Ubuntu 18.04 server
> 
> 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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