Comment 30 for bug 32561
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| ian marcinkowski (ianmarcinkowski) wrote Re: Firefox in Dapper much slower than official upstream builds | #30 |
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My problem with firefox seemed to be an excessive strain on the X server. I'd frequently get 60%+ CPU usage from the X server and the remaining %age would be devoted to firefox. While this may not be exactly related to this bug, the symptoms were the same.
I have just fixed my Firefox slowness problems by properly configuring my xorg.conf file. This is an nvidia-specific fix, as far as I can tell.
The default /etc/X11/xorg.conf listed my display driver as 'nv' instead of 'nvidia' (which is found in the "device" section. I also added a couple lines to this "device" section:
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithCo
And the following at the very end of my xorg.conf:
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
I'm not exactly sure why this has fixed my problem. Maybe I'm crazy.