I got so sick of Vista I installed ubuntu on my Advent 9415 laptop. I'd have done it a lot sooner but the better half of me and the half that controls the food was 'used' to vista and had no clue what linux, unix, ubuntu or any other those nasty terms was. Eventually I could bear it no longer. Even at the risk of having to cook for myself I wiped the harddrive clean and installed Ubuntu...only to be met with a screen resolution stuck on 800x600.

After installing Centos 5, javascript was running very slow no matter what broswer I used - firefox or Opera. The issue is an out of date driver. Update your driver or switch drivers.