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  1. Bug #223238
  2. Comment #27

Comment 27 for bug 223238

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 223238] Re: Extremely slow Ajax/Javascript/CSS performance in Firefox 3 using non-free nvidia-glx-new

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 05:25:58PM -0000, phinn wrote:
> Personally (as I stated above) the free driver (nv) is much faster with
> Firefox 3.0 than the nvidia one. That means, of course, no compiz-fusion
> or any gaming.
>
> Also, Opera 9.5 runs totally fine with the nvidia driver and nv driver.
> So it has to be something with nvidia-glx and Firefox 3.0
>

firefox 3 now makes heavy use of X for rendering things. (through
cairo). Thats the main reason, why firefox now gets slower when
drivers are of low quality.

 - Alexander