492353 - Slow rendering with remote X11 server

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 477068

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[martin.vogt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux; en_US) KHTML/3.5.10 (like Gecko) SUSE
Build Identifier: since ff 3.0 (and maybe before)

Firefox since the 3.x version is very slow with a simple
drop down box. I will attach a sample html.

Opening the dropdown box takes 2-3 second. konqueror/seamonkey and firefox 2.x
open this instantly.
This is true for the standard firefox and the firefox from SUSE and iceweasle
(debian).

The reason is the remote X11 connection. 

With older Servers this becomes even worse. Here we have some hundred of thinclient terminals with Xfree 4.4 and the all cannot use firefox.

(working remote with a local thinclient is very common for universities, for
example)

So, everyone with a remote connections has real trouble here.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.See the Attachement and open it on a remote connection
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
drop down box takes 3 seconds before it appears.

Expected Results:  
instantly, like in konq and firefox 2.x

Are there any binary builds from the 2.x to the 3.x versions?

This would allow to bisect when the patch which makes
everything slow appeared?

Comment 1

[martin.vogt]

Attachment: simply drop down box which takes 3 seconds to open (on remote X11)

Comment 2

[martin.vogt]

Here is an similar bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477068

I think too its releated to the widket set (gtk). But is there
an alternative?

If there are binaries I can try the bisect test.

Comment 3

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

binaries are here http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/

Comment 4

[martin.vogt]

Hello,

a search has revealed that the change from slow to fast dropdown
box has happend between these releases:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2007/12/2007-12-18-04-trunk/firefox-3.0b3pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2

and

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2007/12/2007-12-19-04-trunk/firefox-3.0b3pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2


or as date:
2007-12-18-04-trunk
2007-12-19-04-trunk

Is it possible to download the sources for these builds too?

regards,

Martin

Comment 5

[Sylvain Pasche]

You can get the source from mercurial: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla_Source_Code_%28Mercurial%29

Let's mark this one a duplicate of bug 477068 and continue the discussion there.