any thoughts on why firefox is still nad-grindingly slow?

[Adam Pribyl]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>>
>> Program A uses feature X.
>> Program B uses feature Y.
>> Driver has a bug in feature Y.
>
>  i'm willing to entertain suggestions for tests.  just now, i had one
> invocation of firefox and one invocation of seamonkey running.  i
> terminated seamonkey, and it went away.  i terminated firefox and it's
> still sitting there, in limbo, with the "quit firefox" dialog only
> partially displayed on the screen, after 30 seconds, utterly
> unresponsive.
>
>  as i said, i'm open to suggestions but, at this point, firefox seems
> to be totally unusable on this system.

This is strange, but it could be driver issue. Firstly the scrolling 
problem happen when someone had a compiz enabled on HW without 
GLX_PIXMAPsomething support, also you could try to switch off the smooth 
scrolling. But anyway, the drawing of gui itself.. strange. You could 
maybe get a precompiled Firefox package from mozilla pages, and check with 
it.

I really do have a bunch or problems with radeon driver on 9200 card with 
OS driver right now, but firefox is not among them.

> rday


Adam Pribyl