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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gtk+ update results in slow Firefox
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:42:44
Message-Id: 200910302042.40692.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Gtk+ update results in slow Firefox by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > On 10/30/2009 09:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
4 > >> There was an update to Gtk+ today (from 2.16.6 to 2.18.3). After
5 > >> performing the update, Firefox (3.5.4) is slow as molasses when
6 > >> scrolling in some pages. Example:
7 > >>
8 > >> http://www.simplemachines.org
9 > >>
10 > >> (Try to scroll up/down).
11 > >>
12 > >> Anyone else noticing this or is it just me? I'm on AMD64. I've rebuilt
13 > >> xulrunner and Firefox after the Gtk+ update just in case, but it didn't
14 > >> make any difference.
15 > >
16 > > do you have a bigger page with more scrolling showing the problem?
17 > > because it seems to be fine here.
18 >
19 > I forgot to mention that the problem is only really apparent with
20 > "smooth scrolling" enabled (Preferences->Advanced->Use smooth
21 > scrolling). It was a bit slow before the update too, but nothing
22 > serious, but now it's *extremely* slow.
23 >
24
25 'sanften Bildlauf aktivieren'? Turned it on, restarted firefox. There is a
26 short jerk when scrolling the page for the first time but after that everything
27 is quick.