520776 - Slow canvas rendering

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Clemens Eisserer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3
Build Identifier: 

When running the canvas benchmark located at http://widgetpad.com/67/, Fennec runs it at about 2-3fps, whereas both the WebKit based Midora, as well as Nokia's own gecko based brower archieve ~9fps.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Clemens Eisserer]

forgot to mention, this is on my Nokia800

Comment 2

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

This is bad on builds:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv7l; Nokia N900; en-US; rv:1.9.2b4pre) Gecko/20091125 Firefox/3.6b4pre Fennec/1.0b6pre

and

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv6l; Nokia N8xx; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091125 Firefox/3.7a1pre Fennec/1.0b5

Comment 3

[Clemens Eisserer]

ok, again one of those bug-reports nobody cares for.

Comment 4

[Vivien Nicolas (:vingtetun) (:21) - (NOT reading bugmails, needinfo? please)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> ok, again one of those bug-reports nobody cares for.

We really _care_ about canvas performance but there is no easy solution for that! :)

Comment 5

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

There is no easy fix for this. The long term fix is to use the new Layers GFX system with hardware acceleration. This work is being done and will appear in Fennec by the end of the year.

Comment 6

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Yeah, layers should make Fennec as fast as other Gecko-based browsers. Or faster!

Comment 7

[BMO Automation]

Closing all opened bug in a graveyard component