Re: Firefox/Iceweasel 3: agony of the snail
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On 07/20/08 11:44, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:24:33AM -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.
>
> In my case, a reboot was required to load the new versions of about a dozen
> libraries. (Killing and restarting X did not do it.) Once I did that,
> weird rendering problems in Gecko went away. It can't hurt.
Most of you will yawn, and think, "there he goes again", but this
why I don't like display managers.
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New
York is doomed."
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