Stefan, thank you. I did not think to restart the browser when I tried to toggle that setting. This is a great improvement! Too bad they are deprecating this feature. The video you shared in the link demonstrates exactly my experience. I hope the FF team decides to continue supporting this legacy mode. Thanks again for sharing this.
Jordan On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Stefan Seidel <ssei...@vub.de> wrote: > It's still there in the 51.0.a1 nightly build. > > > > There's a conversation on reddit about it (started by me) and also a bug > report: > > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/4nfmvp/ff_47_ > unbearable_slow_over_remote_x11/ > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1263222 > > > > Stefan Seidel > > > > ------------------------------------- > > On Sunday 28 August 2016 23:25:50 Stefan Seidel wrote: > > > The variables gone by 50.Â~ > > > > > > -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ > -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ > > > -_- Eskimo North Linux Friendly Internet Access, Shell Accounts, and > > > Hosting. Knowledgeable human assistance, not telephone trees or script > > > readers. See our web site: http://www.eskimo.com/ (206) 812-0051 or > (800) > > > 246-6874. > > > On Mon, 29 Aug 2016, Stefan Seidel wrote: > > > > Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 08:11:53 +0200 > > > > From: Stefan Seidel <ssei...@vub.de> > > > > To: Jordan Sokolic <jor...@twiggle.com> > > > > Cc: x2go-user@lists.x2go.org > > > > Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] Web browser performance over X2Go > > > > > > > > Hi Jordan, > > > > > > > > Firefox 47 disabled XRender support by default. Go to about:settings > and > > > > search for xrender, set the property to true. That made it a lot better > > > > for > > > > me. > > > > > > > > Stefan > > > > > > > >> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 12:34:32 +0300 > > > >> From: Jordan Sokolic <jor...@twiggle.com> > > > >> To: x2go-user@lists.x2go.org > > > >> Subject: [X2Go-User] Web browser performance over X2Go > > > >> > > > >> Message-ID: > > > >> <CAFbFDtijPrfER_DEu+zM11N08FKb_Zn-WdUEkR99AQN1zZ9o=q...@mail.gmail.com> > > > >> > > > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > >> > > > >> Hello, > > > >> I use a web frontend for work that runs locally on my server over X2Go > > > >> for > > > >> about one year with success. > > > >> Some months ago I noticed a significant decrease in performance when > > > >> using > > > >> Firefox. My server is running Ubuntu 16.04 with MATE desktop, Windows > 10 > > > >> client. Up to Firefox version 39.0.3 performance of loading pages, > > > >> scrolling, browsing etc. was nearly flawless over a 5Mbit WAN link > (with > > > >> the exception of embedded video elements). However it seems the > release > > > >> of > > > >> Firefox version 40.0 introduced some changes in rendering (see > > > >> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/40.0/releasenotes/) that do not > > > >> play > > > >> nice with X2Go. Further reduction in performance was noticed in > versions > > > >> 46.0 and 48.0. The current release (48.0) even has trouble rendering a > > > >> plain text document without lag and choppiness. > > > >> I have tried toggling various flags relating to graphics, compositing, > > > >> rendering, etc. to no avail. > > > >> To work around this problem the only solution I have found is to > forward > > > >> ports over a separate SSH tunnel and browse locally, but this is > > > >> cumbersome > > > >> to set up every time I need to connect. > > > >> I have preferred Firefox to Chrome over X2Go because the latter has > > > >> always > > > >> been unusably slow; now they are both similarly choppy and slow. > > > >> Has anyone else noticed this? > > > >> Any advice or help would be appreciated. > > > >> > > > >> Regards > > > >> > > > >> Jordan >
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