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Anyone else tried this on Linux? On Mint 15 and Ubuntu 13.04 FF25 is has >1 second lag. Chrome 30 is fine.
I think it's firefox not linux.
Firefox you're breaking my heart. This performs terribly in FF, fine in Chrome.
It could be that his logic optimizes for chrome. I'm sure with a bit more time, he could make it work smoothly in FF... Or fuck it, just write it in ASM, which would be insanely faster.
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As an experiment, I'm testing FF for a week, and a friend is testing chrome, this definitely goes in the against list.
Up until a couple of weeks ago I was a loyal Chrome advocate. However after the Mozilla team's recent AMA on reddit I decided to switch and since then I really haven't found Firefox inferior at all (aside from a couple of examples like this). So for anyone else looking to make the switch, go for it! The only thing I'm missing about Chrome are the excellent dev tools.
My only big issue is that I'm having some performance issues, and that is something I can't live with.
Isn't this also called "Arcball rotation"? The biggest advantage over the naïve implementation is no un-intuitive "sideways" rotation after a few sequences of rotation.
This is just my personal preference, but I believe the naive implementation is miles ahead of the improved ones. The improved version needs at least two movements to go to the other side of the world, doesn't follow the rotation if the cursor is too fast and worse than all, performs a gamma rotation for each non-equatorial point of the sphere. Since we have two degrees of freedom on the screen, I expect to use them t…
I agree it’s not the most intuitive approach for all situations, particularly when you’re used to a North-South orientation for maps. The rolling is perhaps made more obvious with my use of a graticule. For this reason, I’d be interested in optionally restricting to two degrees of freedom when dragging on the globe, and the third angle could be modified when dragging outside the globe only. So the point being dragged on the globe could still remain under the cursor where possible using this approach.
Interestingly, Google Earth uses the same approach as I do, though perhaps it seems less obvious without a graticule.
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Up until a couple of weeks ago I was a loyal Chrome advocate. However after the Mozilla team's recent AMA on reddit I decided to switch and since then I really haven't found Firefox inferior at all (aside from a couple of examples like this). So for anyone else looking to make the switch, go for it! The only thing I'm missing about Chrome are the excellent dev tools.
I've been quite satisfied, most of the things, it's just a matter of adaptation to a new way of doing stuff. My only big issue is that I'm having some performance issues, and that is something I can't live with.
The only thing I've noticed was that it really struggled to scroll down large pages whilst playing a video in another window/tab. Although that quickly fixed itself when I updated my graphics card drivers (completely forgot to do so after installing Ubuntu).
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I've been quite satisfied, most of the things, it's just a matter of adaptation to a new way of doing stuff. My only big issue is that I'm having some performance issues, and that is something I can't live with.
Just out of interest, where have you found these performance issues? The only thing I've noticed was that it really struggled to scroll down large pages whilst playing a video in another window/tab. Although that quickly fixed itself when I updated my graphics card drivers (completely forgot to do so after installing Ubuntu).
Facebook seems to lag my whole pc, that might be facebook's fault, but it doesn't happen in chrome.
I browse reddit quite a lot, images just seem to render slower (and the render all distorted until finished).
Youtube videos seem to go out of focus constantly.
Cold start is quite slow, though not unacceptable times, definitely slower.
When I load a big page, it seems to take much longer before I can start scrolling.
None of this are actually tested, so some may be perception, but in general terms, it actually feels quite slower, not bad, but not snappy.
Unless I missed it, where does one get the continent shapes and country outlines?
They are in turn derived from Natural Earth data: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/110m-cultural-vect...
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I think it's firefox not linux.
Firefox on Mac is fine (well, more or less; I just filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=936472 on the slight lag I see there), which suggests the actual issue is cairo's path drawing code, which is not used by Firefox on Mac, but is used on Windows and Linux.