From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 2 17:53:41 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC315B3B for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2013 17:53:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF0BA1C for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2013 17:53:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-in-17-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-17-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.34]) by mx.arcor.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FB795A77C for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2013 18:53:37 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (mail-in-08.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.48]) by mail-in-17-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AC0310C03D for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2013 18:53:37 +0100 (CET) Received: from lorvorc.mips.inka.de (dslb-188-105-087-177.pools.arcor-ip.net [188.105.87.177]) by mail-in-08.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E5D073AF8A7 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2013 18:53:36 +0100 (CET) X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.2 mail-in-08.arcor-online.net E5D073AF8A7 Received: from lorvorc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lorvorc.mips.inka.de (8.14.6/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r22Hraxc041733 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2013 18:53:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mailnull@lorvorc.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by lorvorc.mips.inka.de (8.14.6/8.14.6/Submit) id r22HraRA041732 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Sat, 2 Mar 2013 18:53:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mailnull) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Firefox 19 vs large images Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 17:53:36 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 17:53:41 -0000 Viewing large images has become cumbersome with the switch from Firefox 18 to 19. Am I the only one to notice this? Wikipedia's high-resolution pictures of the day are great for this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Bison_skull_pile_edit.jpg What happens is that Firefox loads the image and then does some sort of operation that causes the X11 server to be busy for a noticeable amount of time. During this time the whole X11 session hangs. If you have a network login, you can see the Xorg process eat all the CPU it can get. The duration of this delay varies and depends on the size of the image; with the one above it just took 30 seconds. This isn't entirely new. With previous versions of Firefox it happened when I accidentally dragged an image. But now with Firefox 19, just viewing the image is enough. Needless to say, this is painful if you are going through a number of large images and are forced to pause for half a minute each. I don't know if this happens for all video drivers. I'm running Xorg 1.7.7 with radeon(4x) on an ATI RV370 (Radeon X300SE) card, 7.4-STABLE/amd64. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de