-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkiDdDgACgkQS9HxQb37XmdplgCfdrLCeRaRuRoKPA22QBmpOqQg y94AoL+aeZXmdJDVg31qoC4xehiCmS44 =alSF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]