Okay, I dug a little deeper and it turns out firefox uses cairo for
rendering and cairo will use client-side rendering because it thinks the
X server doesn't support EXTEND_PAD.  My testing suggests that XRender
does support it, though (at least since hardy).  So the solution to the
performance issues outlined above is to patch cairo to not claim
EXTEND_PAD is unsupported by XRender.  Jaunty packages are in my PPA:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/thjaeger/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cairo/

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Images in Firefox and Opera are extremely pixeled when zoomed
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