Re: Firefox/Iceweasel 3: agony of the snail

["Kelly Clowers" <kelly.clowers@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Florian Kulzer
<florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:
>
> OK, our mini-survey so far:
>
> nvidia driver using nvidia's RenderAccel: fine (Hugo, Ron)
> radeon driver with XAA: fine (Bill)
>
> My experience with Intel 82Q963/Q965 and the Xorg intel driver:
>
> with EXA: not as bad as what Jim describes, but slow enough to seriously
>          deteriorate the browsing experience
>
> with XAA: generally quite fast, only web sites with excessive use of
>          background images slow it down noticeably, but not unbearably
>
> Jim, if you have an intel card and use EXA (the default these days) then
> a switch to XAA will improve your browsing experience significantly.

I  have found EXA to work very well with the Radeon drivers (r300/r400).


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers