| 2006-02-23 01:57:21 |
David Finch |
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| 2006-02-25 03:56:31 |
David Finch |
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added attachment 'test.html' (Benchmark) |
| 2006-03-09 08:28:06 |
FooBar |
firefox: status |
Unconfirmed |
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| 2006-03-09 08:28:06 |
FooBar |
firefox: priority |
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| 2006-03-09 08:28:06 |
FooBar |
firefox: severity |
Normal |
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| 2006-03-09 08:28:06 |
FooBar |
firefox: statusexplanation |
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Ubuntu Firefox is terribly slow. The browser, however, is one of the more important applications on a system and Ubuntu Firefox should therefore be fixed ASAP to match the performance of the original Firefox available from Mozilla.com. |
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| 2006-03-09 14:56:17 |
Dennis Kaarsemaker |
firefox: priority |
High |
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| 2006-03-09 14:56:17 |
Dennis Kaarsemaker |
firefox: severity |
Major |
Normal |
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| 2006-03-09 14:56:17 |
Dennis Kaarsemaker |
firefox: statusexplanation |
Ubuntu Firefox is terribly slow. The browser, however, is one of the more important applications on a system and Ubuntu Firefox should therefore be fixed ASAP to match the performance of the original Firefox available from Mozilla.com. |
Priority is for the developers to set. This bug is certainly not major since it's not a security, causes no data loss or does other really bad things. |
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| 2006-03-09 18:36:04 |
towsonu2003 |
firefox: severity |
Normal |
Major |
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| 2006-03-09 18:36:04 |
towsonu2003 |
firefox: statusexplanation |
Priority is for the developers to set. This bug is certainly not major since it's not a security, causes no data loss or does other really bad things. |
we lost too many people with this similar issue in Breezy: changing priority to major. |
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| 2006-04-19 11:34:37 |
mikeandmore |
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added attachment 'Screenshot.png' (firefox with chinese without pango) |
| 2006-04-22 12:15:40 |
Matt Zimmerman |
firefox: severity |
Major |
Normal |
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| 2006-04-22 12:15:40 |
Matt Zimmerman |
firefox: statusexplanation |
we lost too many people with this similar issue in Breezy: changing priority to major. |
I'll try to provide some authoritative answers here on behalf of the development team:
In general, functionality (such as being able to render complex languages) is a higher priority than performance.
The Firefox builds provided by Mozilla address this problem by having separate downloads for different languages, but this approach doesn't work very well for distributions like Ubuntu which attempt to support a variety of languages.
We are fortunate in this case to be able to make a choice at runtime as to whether the heavier pango engine is needed.
However, the web is a multilingual environment, and it is not necessarily appropriate to assume that it is OK to render some languages incorrectly based on the default language of the system. I'm not entirely opposed to the idea of selectively enabling pango, but it requires some careful consideration.
Meanwhile, here's how you can help us to address this issue:
Help us to find out which languages require pango for correct rendering (I believe this includes at least all right-to-left languages, but is certainly not limited to those). The various localization teams within Ubuntu may be able to provide some assistance.
Stop claiming that Firefox is horribly broken, and changing the severity of this bug; it is purely a performance issue. Severity "Normal" appropriately reflects that this bug is significant, as most performance bugs would be classified as Minor. I've also added it to the list of bugs which will be considered for attention during the beta period. This is no guarantee that we will be able to solve it, but we will see what can be done. |
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| 2006-04-22 12:19:51 |
Matt Zimmerman |
title |
Firefox in Dapper much slower than official upstream builds |
Pango-enabled firefox is much slower |
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| 2006-04-22 12:22:17 |
Matt Zimmerman |
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assigned to firefox (upstream) |
| 2006-04-25 23:31:22 |
Matt Zimmerman |
firefox: assignee |
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| 2006-04-25 23:31:22 |
Matt Zimmerman |
firefox: statusexplanation |
I'll try to provide some authoritative answers here on behalf of the development team:
In general, functionality (such as being able to render complex languages) is a higher priority than performance.
The Firefox builds provided by Mozilla address this problem by having separate downloads for different languages, but this approach doesn't work very well for distributions like Ubuntu which attempt to support a variety of languages.
We are fortunate in this case to be able to make a choice at runtime as to whether the heavier pango engine is needed.
However, the web is a multilingual environment, and it is not necessarily appropriate to assume that it is OK to render some languages incorrectly based on the default language of the system. I'm not entirely opposed to the idea of selectively enabling pango, but it requires some careful consideration.
Meanwhile, here's how you can help us to address this issue:
Help us to find out which languages require pango for correct rendering (I believe this includes at least all right-to-left languages, but is certainly not limited to those). The various localization teams within Ubuntu may be able to provide some assistance.
Stop claiming that Firefox is horribly broken, and changing the severity of this bug; it is purely a performance issue. Severity "Normal" appropriately reflects that this bug is significant, as most performance bugs would be classified as Minor. I've also added it to the list of bugs which will be considered for attention during the beta period. This is no guarantee that we will be able to solve it, but we will see what can be done. |
Thanks, chpe, for that list; it's very helpful.
Ian, please use similar logic in the firefox wrapper to selectively enable Pango, and solicit feedback from the community as to whether we're missing any languages from that list. |
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| 2006-05-03 10:18:51 |
Ian Jackson |
firefox: status |
Confirmed |
Fix Released |
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| 2006-05-03 10:18:51 |
Ian Jackson |
firefox: statusexplanation |
Thanks, chpe, for that list; it's very helpful.
Ian, please use similar logic in the firefox wrapper to selectively enable Pango, and solicit feedback from the community as to whether we're missing any languages from that list. |
I have implemented the suggested workaround (turning off pango if no locales are built which we think need it) in 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.2-0ubuntu2. The list of locales seems rather arbitrary and it would be nice to have some feedback.
I've confirmed using kn.wikipedia.org that pango enable/disablement does make a difference. But I wasn't able to install language-pack-kn due to Malone 42630. |
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| 2006-08-30 07:51:27 |
Bug Watch Updater |
firefox: status |
Confirmed |
Fix Released |
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| 2007-07-13 04:23:58 |
moduguvikram |
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assigned to firefox (Baltix) |
| 2007-12-29 09:14:09 |
Alexey Spiridonov |
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added attachment 'firefox-performance.html.gz' (Sanitized e-mail with massive performance problems.) |
| 2007-12-29 12:59:35 |
Vytas |
firefox: status |
Fix Released |
New |
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| 2008-01-08 18:28:26 |
Alexander Sack |
firefox: assignee |
ijackson |
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| 2008-01-08 18:30:14 |
Alexander Sack |
firefox: status |
New |
Confirmed |
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| 2008-01-08 18:30:14 |
Alexander Sack |
bug |
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assigned to firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
| 2008-01-12 14:39:11 |
Alexander Sack |
firefox-3.0: status |
Incomplete |
Fix Released |
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| 2008-04-29 14:49:00 |
Alexander Sack |
firefox: status |
Confirmed |
Won't Fix |
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| 2008-04-29 14:49:10 |
Alexander Sack |
firefox: status |
New |
Invalid |
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| 2010-09-15 22:40:01 |
c7d2f5c8667d26fffd5e7772d632c76d |
removed subscriber chpe |
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| 2010-09-18 02:35:50 |
Bug Watch Updater |
firefox: importance |
Unknown |
Medium |
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| 2010-09-18 02:35:56 |
Bug Watch Updater |
bug watch added |
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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6227 |
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| 2010-09-18 02:35:56 |
Bug Watch Updater |
bug watch added |
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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348825 |
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| 2016-10-13 07:22:45 |
Ubuntu QA Website |
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iso-testing |
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| 2016-10-13 14:25:16 |
Kristoffer Lundén |
removed subscriber Kristoffer Lundén |
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