795848 - Google maps dragging is very slow

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[nick_di]

Attachment: tests.zip

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0.1
Build ID: 20120908010631

Steps to reproduce:

Hi Team,
Simple map dragging holding left mouse button is very slow.
Using simple googe maps V3. It works very slow compared to V2.

you can check out production site running v2 
here https://geosweep.alc.ca/geosweep-web/map#show/3n2pn
and v2 running here
http://www.geosweep.com/geosweep-web/map#show/6WYsX
Simple javascript test pages are also attached.
Thanks Nikola



Actual results:

Fire Fox (15.0.1) on ubuntu is very slow
Chrome Windows and Linux is fine.
IE is ok on windows.
Older version of Fire Fox  (3.6) on atom CPU is fine.
Fire Fox (15.0.1) on some windows machine is fine on some it is not. 



Expected results:

scroll smoothly

Comment 1

[nick_di]

Ops and v3 running here
http://www.geosweep.com/geosweep-web/map#show/6WYsX

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

If it differs on different Windows machines, likely graphics.

Comment 3

[Adam]

Hi, I have got the same issue on FF22 windows 7, Core 2 Duo, gtx570, 2560x1600 res, 16Gb ram.

v2 and v3 maps are both slow to drag (v2 is a bit better) but the brand new maps google is testing right now are SUUUUPER SLOW I am getting like 3fps (all this on full screen maps, the smaller the window the better the performance but not very much).

I have tried same on Chrome and IE and both work perfect! it is just FF

Comment 4

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

Adam, can you post the graphics info from about:support ?

Comment 5

[Adam]

(In reply to Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] from comment #4)
> Adam, can you post the graphics info from about:support ?

I will do it tommorow, I have just upgraded to Haswell 4770k+ssd+gryphon mobo+ 16gb ram.

Panning on normal classic google maps is much better but not as good as in chrome or ie, when I try to pan map with 20 markers it is "jumping" can't find better word it is like a total lack of frame rate in games when you look around and you see a slideshow instead of smooth animation.

I know it is not a bug but some kind of internal firefox code problem, something is probaly not optimised...

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Adam, Nick, do you still see this issue when using a current version??

(I could not reproduce on windows)

Comment 7

[Melroy]

Attachment: firefox_support.json

Yup, suppper slowwwwww. Still is using Firefox 74, under Linux (Linux Mint XFCE). Using AMD videocard with built-in AMDGPU kernel module driver for AMD.

Hardware acceleration enabled.

https://i.ibb.co/3C4r2zJ/slow-ff-google-maps.gif

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Comment 8

[Melroy]

Yup, suppper slowwwwww. Still is using Firefox 74, under Linux (Linux Mint XFCE). Using AMD videocard with built-in AMDGPU kernel module driver for AMD.

Hardware acceleration enabled.

See video

Comment 9

[Denis W]

Same thing over here - 2017 MBP with two TB ports. This wasn't as much of an issue using Firefox on a 1080p screen, but moving up to a HiDPI 4K monitor the panning performance is extremely poor. Doing anything in Google Maps drops frames.

Comparing to Chromium browsers the panning performance there is significantly better.

Comment 10

[lolrepeatlol]

I have the same issue. Ryzen 7 1700, RX 5700 XT, 16GB RAM, 4K display. Literally any Linux distribution I've tried has this issue. Linux Mint 20, Ubuntu 20.04, Fedora 32, Arch Linux. It's so bad that sometimes when I pan it literally just crashes my whole computer and I have to restart. In Chrome, panning works fine. I also have similar issues with Google Slides - the transitions are incredibly laggy, you can barely see them. This issue doesn't happen, however, in Windows, and macOS (Hackintosh). Very disappointing.

Comment 11

[wilecoyote2015]

Same for me on Arch Linux with Nvidia GTX 1060 and proprietary drivers.

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I would think the original reports were not using 4K.

André, can you reproduce with your distro?

Comment 13

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

lolrepeatlol are you still able to reproduce?

Comment 14

[lolrepeatlol]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #13)

lolrepeatlol are you still able to reproduce?

Sorry for the late response.

I had this issue quite a while ago and it was unbearable -- I had to open Chrome to use Google Maps. At times, if I used Maps in Firefox for too long, my computer would freeze and I would need to restart.

Fortunately, the issue has seemingly gotten a lot better on Fedora 35, but it's still not quite as smooth as Chrome. When I first open Maps on Firefox, there's some visible choppiness, but nothing terrible. Chrome doesn't have this choppiness. Overall I also noticed that Chrome feels like it's a consistent 60fps while Firefox feels like it's more at 30-40 fps. Still, it's a huge improvement over what it was at that time, and it's very usable nowadays.

I'm on Fedora 35 (using X11) and have noticed the same behavior on both Firefox 96 as well as Nightly 98 (2022-01-21).

Comment 15

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Comment 16

[Gregory Pappas [:gregp]]

Unable to reproduce in current versions.