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. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
