There are numerous problems with system cairo 1.4.10 compared to patched mozilla cairo 1.5.2-55. 1st, system cairo has tons of fatal asserts, making firefox crash in different locations with ugly messages. Mozilla turned asserts non-fatal as they deal with errors they think important and ignore the rest. 2nd, mozilla fixed a number of issues (performance, glyphs, bad repaints, printing issues, etc), some (most?) merged into system 1.5.*.
>From a user perspective, system 1.4.10 will appear somewhat slower and will >have more visual artifacts, not to mention that the associated bugs will not >be supported by mozilla. You are requesting improvements for subpixel, yet the patch decreases overall quality for everyone. That's a 6+ months regression of mozilla improvements/bug fixes. It would be better to have that subpixel patch accepted upstream by cairo, or at least by mozilla. Or hardy could ship a patched 1.5.* (I don't know if it's even possible). -- Build Firefox 3 against a subpixel-patched cairo https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/164640 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
