Ubuntu vs. Windows Browsers & aspx

[ShowerComic]

I've been running Ubuntu 9.04 on a laptop, while my trusty desktop still has XP for a few needed apps.

While watching some hulu videos on the laptop, I've noticed some gadgets either don't work, or aren't as responsive as on the desktop. For example, it is like the system ignores my 'click to pause' the video, or 'click to make full screen' when I view it on the laptop. - no such problem on the desktop.

I've seen similar 'sluggishness' or 'unresponsiveness' on some shopping sites, when viewed from the linux laptop. these sites had pages ending in .aspx, rather than .html

Any idea or solutions, (besides sucking up, and buying Windows 7, or reverting to Vista for the laptop)

 

[Ducky]

I've been running Ubuntu 9.04 on a laptop, while my trusty desktop still has XP for a few needed apps.

While watching some hulu videos on the laptop, I've noticed some gadgets either don't work, or aren't as responsive as on the desktop. For example, it is like the system ignores my 'click to pause' the video, or 'click to make full screen' when I view it on the laptop. - no such problem on the desktop.

I've seen similar 'sluggishness' or 'unresponsiveness' on some shopping sites, when viewed from the linux laptop. these sites had pages ending in .aspx, rather than .html

Any idea or solutions, (besides sucking up, and buying Windows 7, or reverting to Vista for the laptop)

Hardware specs of laptop and graphics card would help this diagnosis. Also, have you installed the ubuntu-restricted-extras package or did you get flash working manually? Is it an ATI video card or nVidia or shared intel?

 

[D'rok]

Make sure you have the latest maintained flash plugin. Enable all repositories and then "sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin"

 

[Tsukasa Buddha]

You have to check if you are 64-bit, because that makes Flash messy.

Try using different plug-ins to handle flash, they are in the Firefox options.

And sometimes the latest "solutions" for it will actually mess you up. But there are a lot of options to fix this.

 

[moopet]

I'd go further and just disable flash. Apart from youtube-type sites I can't think of any legit sites where you need flash, and it's still a problem on free OSs. I also can't think of any reason the server-side technology would affect your experience depending on your client software, so I believe the .aspx extensions are red herrings.

 

[ShowerComic]

You have to check if you are 64-bit, because that makes Flash messy.

Try using different plug-ins to handle flash, they are in the Firefox options.

And sometimes the latest "solutions" for it will actually mess you up. But there are a lot of options to fix this.

Could be: For the record: 64 Bit PC (Core 2 Duo) running x64 Ubuntu,
(HP 6910p) I'm currently waiting for 9.10 to be released on 11/29/09.
I may dual boot Mint & Ubuntu see if that helps. (I've got Vista backed up if I ever need it) -- I'm currently dual booting 9.04 and Beta 9.10

 

[Modified]

I have similar issues with my 32-bit Vista laptop vs my 32-bit XP desktop. The browser on the laptop seems to take a long time to respond to a click when it's busy, even though the systems are similar in performance and browsers and plugins are identical. I haven't bothered to investigate since I rarely use the laptop.