Comment 121 for bug 217908

> I first automatically updated xulrunner and that gave much better quality resizing. But this did give a performance drop.
> cairo didn't update automatically. It has the same version number (1.8.0-0) as the one in the standard intrepid repositories. I had to force synaptic to use the "older version" from your repo. And now it works smoothly (both speed and image quality :-) as it should.

I've uploaded an updated cairo package to the PPA.

Thanks to everyone who posted their results, we're apparently fine as
far as the closed-source drivers are concerned.

I will try to get the necessary driver fixes upstream. As for cairo and
mozilla, both upstream projects are aware of the issues and are planning
to go this route eventually [1,2], but it's unlikely to happen in time
before jaunty because they have no way of checking whether the X server
is using buggy drivers. Since we can make sure that all the drivers
shipped with ubuntu are fine, we can enable those fixes earlier to get
faster and better-quality scaling.

[1]
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/commit/?id=128223ee9b7880e640056475462eca9a88415492
[2] http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2009-January/016324.html