Bug#666468: huge performance issues after libcairo2 upgrade with google-chrome-stable and chromium

[Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn@axis.com>]

On Wed, 9 May 2012, Juhani Karlsson wrote:
>
> After upgrade (Preparing to replace libcairo2:i386 1.10.2-7 (using
> .../libcairo2_1.12.2-1_i386.deb) ...) huge performance issues with
> google-chrome-stableb and chromium.
>
> If I open many (like 5) tabs at once from bookmarks, browser gets REALLY slow,
> almost crashes. Feels like 10x slower than before upgrade.
> Actually asks if I want to close some tabs or wait. Before I could
> open easily like 50 tabs with good performance (16GB memory in my system).
>
> ii  chromium                              18.0.1025.151~r130497-1 ii
> chromium-inspector                    18.0.1025.151~r130497-1 ii
> chromium-l10n                         18.0.1025.151~r130497-1 ii
> google-chrome-stable                  17.0.963.83-r127885

Seen that too (wheezy) :(  Switching between tabs takes aaaaaaaaaages.
chromium				18.0.1025.151~r130497-1

Not sure about the cause, though.


Cheers,

-- 
Cristian