I've been experiencing slow rendering (mostly with large images) and random crashing with the gecko-based browsers on 3.9 on AMD64. Same browsers on 64 bit linux behave properly and are snappy. The network is not at fault for the slow rendering. I've been unable to stick my finger on what is causing the slow rendering (common) as compared to the crashing (about once every 25 minutes or so.) A page will load correctly in one instance, and then loaded again can crash the browser. No errors are dumped in the term.
I suspect this is some conflict with Gecko-20060303 and mmap'ed malloc (only grounds for this is a vanilla linux which is a whole different ball park.) I don't have a 3.8 box handy to see what verion of Gecko those era browsers were using. But its a fair guess to say it was not Gecko-20060303 =). The offending browsers which I have used are mozilla-1.7.12p11, galeon-1.3.21p3 (galeon only renders slowly, no crashes,) mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.3, and mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.2, all of which are using Gecko-20060303. Has anyone else seen this or am I just crazy? As always, lynx works like a charm, sans the fact there are no pretty pictures. =( Travers
