Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:15:40 +0100 From: Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox 19 vs large images Message-ID: <513241CC.1020101@gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <kgteb0$18nr$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> References: <kgteb0$18nr$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
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On 02.03.2013 18:53 (UTC+2), Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Viewing large images has become cumbersome with the switch from > Firefox 18 to 19. Am I the only one to notice this? Today there started a thread about this on the german bsdforen with several 'me toos': http://www.bsdforen.de/showthread.php?p=248950#post248950 Posting #11 could be a useful first hint. > 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. For me it happens on 10.0-CURRENT/amd64 with xorg-7.5.2, xorg-server-1.10.6_2,1, nvidia-driver 313.18 (from patched port) and firefox-19.0,1.
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