Re: Firefox/Iceweasel 3: agony of the snail
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 00:24:33 -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote:
>
> An upgrade to testing this afternoon unexpectedly brought me
> Firefox/Iceweasel 3.0, which was fairly exciting. Here, though, it is
> just agonizingly slow---10-12 seconds between clicking `Bookmarks' in
> the Toolbar and the display of the menu. Scrolling through:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/07/thrd4.html
>
> is like wading through thick, thick mud. When one moves from screen to
> screen, iceweasel/firefox takes about 7 or 8 seconds to redraw its
> window. It's really unusable.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this?
>
> Epiphany behaves similarly, but Konqueror and Mozilla are wonderfully
> fast, suggesting that the problem (whatever it is) lies with Gecko.
>
> This last suspicion was confirmed when I installed epiphany-webkit and
> called it explicitly. It was just as fast as Konqueror and Mozilla.
>
> Upgrading to 3.0.1 in unstable makes matters, if anything, worse.
>
> Downgrading to version 2.0 in stable restores normal speed and usability.
>
> The problem is the same in the binary version available directly from mozilla.org.
I suspect that this might have something to do with your video driver
and the acceleration method that is used. Please post the output of
these two commands:
grep -B1 -A4 'drivers/' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
grep 'Accel\|XAA\|EXA' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
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