Ubuntu
firefox package

  1. Bug #38131
  2. Comment #107

Comment 107 for bug 38131

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Christopher Giroir (kelsin) wrote :

I hate an issue in Debian Lenny that sounds a lot like this, just wanted to comment that AccelMethod "XAA" in my device section solved it for me.

I was having VERY slow rendering times in Firefox. Switching tabs would take forever. My computer did not feel like it should.

I'm on a Thinkpad X61s with lspci graphics card line:
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)

My xorg.conf is largely autoconfigure (except for one Keyboard options line to replace caps lock with control). I ONLY added the AccelMethod "XAA" line to my device section to get this:

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Configured Video Device"
        Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
EndSection

And suddenly firefox is incredibly fast again. In fact, I didn't notice this before but ALL GTK apps were slow and they are all faster. I think this might technically be an xorg auto config problem?

I also think a lot of the problems in this bug report might not be for the same actual bug.