293482 - Slow redraw when text size increase/decrease on Linux

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Hans Christian Studt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Fedora/1.0.3-1.3.1 StumbleUpon/1.999 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Fedora/1.0.3-1.3.1 StumbleUpon/1.999 Firefox/1.0.3

In any 200+ entry story on slashdot.org the redraw is slow (takes several
seconds) when text-size are being increased or decreased on Linux (Fedore Core
4) when conparing to Windows 2000 on the same hardware.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/05/05/08/2021215.shtml?tid=187&tid=4
2. Increase text-size (CTRL-++)
3. Watch response-time

Actual Results:  
Slow response-time

Expected Results:  
Respnse-times comparable with response-times under Windows

Comment 1

[Michael Nelson]

I see the same slowness in changing text size.  Delays of several seconds accompanied by high cpu utilization.  This feature was smooth and fast with FF 1.07 and earlier versions.  I am using SuSE 10.0.

Comment 2

[Michael Nelson]

These delays also happen when changing text size with the mouse wheel, and are not site-specific.

Comment 3

[Daniel Sim]

Hell it's true. I cannot give a test case, but in general, whether OSX vs Linux on Mactel, or Windows vs Linux, on the same box or not, Firefox on Linux redraws too slowly. The longer the page the worse it gets. Throw in flash and java and Firefox slows to a crawl.

Guess the developers can't doing anything about it because the exact culprit has not been identified. But hell, do something! Somebody at least CONFIRM this bug?

Comment 4

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 5

[[:Aleksej]]

Closing as WORKSFORME due to the lack of response. Feel free to reopen if the problem exists with a current build. Thanks.