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  1. Bug #125970
  2. Comment #267

Comment 267 for bug 125970

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Cory Dodt (corydodt) wrote : Re: slow scroll with image as background-repeat

I can confirm the bug, and I can confirm Mathias Buren's workaround, posted 2008-08-19: upgrade Nvidia driver and add performance tweak to xorg.conf. With two caveats.

I installed the newest nvidia beta driver successfully, and followed this thread http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=118088 to set up initial pixmap placement.

Caveat #1: adding that command to .xinitrc didn't seem to work, I had to run it from the command line. I'm not 100% sure .xinitrc is being run.

Caveat #2: the improvement, while marked, is not a complete fix for this bug. Two sites I used to compare:

  1) Slashdot, jump into the comment threads and scroll. The fixed control box on the left causes a noticeable slowdown normally. With this bug, slashdot comments are tolerable again.
  2) http://www.bnrmetal.com/v2/search.php?name=black+sabbath is a site posted to mozilla bug 201307 as a test case for that bug. It speeds up considerably, but is still extremely slow.