On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 06:22:59AM -0000, Rob Lanphier wrote: > I spent the better part of an afternoon fighting this problem (or one > much like it) on my laptop. Free nv driver works, but the restricted > driver causes really obnoxious stalls, to the point where the app dims > out multiple times for several seconds on some pages. > > Page which demonstrates the behavior most severely (ironically): > http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/02/firefox-3-ultimate-feature-performance/ > > I saved a local copy of the CSS, and did a binary search to find the > offending CSS. Here it is: > #page { > background: url(images/structure/backgroundColumns.png) repeat-y; > background-position: 3px; > margin-top: 50px; > width: 970px; > margin-left: auto; > margin-right: auto; > border: 1px solid #D9D9D9; > z-index: 10; > } > > Readding pretty much anything on the #page entity causes rendering > stalls. I started readding individual lines from this chunk, but there > didn't seem to be one particular culprit. It seems that most/all of > these lines contribute to the sluggishness somehow, to varying degrees. >
This is a background repeat issue (again) ... appears that nvidia xaa implementation has its own share of issues with that. Please attach your xorg.conf and your Xorg.0.log taken after reproducing. - Alexander -- Extremely slow Ajax/Javascript/CSS performance in Firefox 3 using non-free nvidia-glx-new https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223238 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
