Firefox Running Slow in Linux

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Fri Feb 6 19:08:35 UTC 2009


On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy at gmail.com> wrote:
> The problems with FireFox "beeing slow" has two different reaons:
>
> 1.) FireFox UI is slow / Scrolling is slow:
> Your video driver does not accalerated XRender well, or is slow for
> other reaons. (While scrolling and running top, is FireFox eating all
> the CPU or Xorg?)
> FireFox just sends drawing commands to the X-Server, if the drivers
> are broken its not FireFox fault.

So one needs a highend, fully supported video card to scroll properly
in Firefox/Linux?

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