Comment 148 for bug 32561

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 32561] Re: Pango-enabled firefox is much slower

On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:21:24PM -0000, Alexey Spiridonov wrote:
> I looked at firefox-3.0 also. The results are not bad, but not perfect
> either:
>
> 1) The original e-mail renders quickly and correctly, regardless of MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO (it's unclear if the switch has any effect at all now)
> 2) The sanitized e-mail that I attached "renders" fast. However, it produces a gigantic area of "no refresh" on the screen. As in, there's a part of the message that just keeps whatever was on that part of the screen before Firefox. And then, when you scroll, that part gets smeared around.
>

This sounds like a X driver bug. Do you use XAA as accellmethod on
your xorg.conf? if you have a driver that can do EXA, try that and let
us know if your issues goes away.

Thanks,

 - Alexander