Ken Mandelberg wrote: >>> kmand >>> I've been testing Firefox 3 on recent Nevada sparc >>> >> builds on a SB1500. The performance is really awful. >> >> Try >> http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0.1/relea >> senotes/#contributedbuilds >> >> The >> http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/re >> leases/3.0.1/contrib/solaris_pkgadd/firefox-3.0.1.en-U >> S.opensolaris-i386-pkg.bz2 seems >> quite fast and I run on only one of my two cores >> (thus my system is not especially quick). >> >> If there is a problem with one of those builds I'm >> sure they would be keen to know. >> >> Rob >> > > No the problem was in fact the xrender issue, and the patch referenced > earlier did solve the problem. I presume this is Sparc only because of the > dependence on Xsun. > > I hope the patch will be sent back through the mozilla group so it gets > incorporated into the trunk. The patch also needs to go into thunderbird 3.x, > and since its not really in sync with firefox 3.x it took a little bit of > struggle. > Yes, it is. Check out https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435739 Poor performance of Firefox 3 with no X RENDER extension and http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11529 Performance of cairo is not good without XRender extension
Cheers, -Evan
