On Jul 30, 2008, at 10:11 PM, 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. >
The patch is already in Firefox trunk (i.e. Firefox 3.1), and it will be in Thunderbird 3.0 which has the same base of Firefox 3.1. Ginn > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org -------- Ginn Chen Software Engineer, Browser Team Sun Microsystems, Inc. Phone: x82869 / +86-10-62673869 Fax: +86-10-62780969
