[ltnawkam] The web is too complicated

This Lemote Yeelong computer, but with the CPU clock artificially dialed down to 199 MHz (from 796MHz) to save battery certainly underscores that something is wrong with the way the whole web browsing stack works, from Javascript down to X.

Tremendous sluggishness due to CPU use for simple tasks to display text, to input text into a form field. These things should be easy! They were easy long before computers were this powerful. It's OK if, say, the fractal generating program or complicated game runs slowly, but not simple text.

Javascript heavy sites (e.g., "standard" Gmail, Facebook) are unusable. gnome-terminal is noticeably slower than the older xterm.

Perhaps rethink, reimplement from scratch targeting and testing on a slow computer. Many thoughts already posted on this blog.