We have a patch to improve Firefox3 performance issue on the system that lacking XRender such as sparc+nevada system. The patch was added to Firefox3 in Nevada build 95 ( first firefox3 bundled build). I think your problem will be resolve in that build.
Thanks Brian Ken Mandelberg wrote: > I've been testing Firefox 3 on recent Nevada sparc builds on a SB1500. The > performance is really awful. It can take a couple of minutes to load an > expensive web page like cnn or yahoo. During that period the cpu sits at > 100%. Once the page finishes loading CPU goes way down. > > Surprisingly, the Sol10 contributed firefox port runs quite a bit better on > Nevada then the contributed native port, but is still slow. The Sol10 port > runs fine on Sol 10 on the same hardware. > > This is on a SB1500 with 2GB of ram, now on snv-93, but similar results on > earlier builds.The Xserver is Xsun on either Sol 10 or 11, and the fb is an > XVR100. > > The Sol10 contributed firefox 3 build comes bundled with several libraries > that replace ones too out of date on Sol10. When I run this on Nevada I'm > getting those libraries rather than the ones that come with Nevada. Since it > runs a good deal faster, I have to guess that there is some issue with the > corresponding Nevada libraries. Since its even faster when it runs on Sol10, > that could be because of the additional libraries not bundled with the > contributed firefox. > > Any thoughts? Is it the libraries or something else? > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
