From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 6 21:09:34 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 879303FD for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2014 21:09:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (mail-in-09.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx.arcor.de", Issuer "Thawte SSL CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3FF7C2F26 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2014 21:09:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-in-02-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-02-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.14]) by mx.arcor.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BE2819760E for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2014 22:38:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-16.arcor-online.net (mail-in-16.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.56]) by mail-in-02-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 428DC718848 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2014 22:38:05 +0200 (CEST) X-Greylist: Passed host: 94.217.108.8 X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.2 mail-in-16.arcor-online.net EF1158276 Received: from lorvorc.mips.inka.de (dslb-094-217-108-008.pools.arcor-ip.net [94.217.108.8]) by mail-in-16.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EF1158276 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2014 22:38:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lorvorc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lorvorc.mips.inka.de (8.14.9/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s56Kc3ET023004 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2014 22:38:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from news@lorvorc.mips.inka.de) Received: (from news@localhost) by lorvorc.mips.inka.de (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) id s56Kc3EK023003 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Fri, 6 Jun 2014 22:38:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from news) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org From: Christian Weisgerber Newsgroups: list.freebsd.ports Subject: Re: Firefox chokes up for several seconds... frequently Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 20:38:03 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <58088.1401822414@server1.tristatelogic.com> <538F5770.2030707@onetel.com> X-Trace: lorvorc.mips.inka.de 1402087083 22806 ::1 (6 Jun 2014 20:38:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@mips.inka.de User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (FreeBSD) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 21:09:34 -0000 On 2014-06-04, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > I have experienced firefox and/or xorg apparently freezing for several > seconds which seems to be due to loading a page with a large image. That's a well-known problem. It can be worked around by setting MOZ_DISABLE_IMAGE_OPTIMIZE=1 in the environment before starting firefox. > This is on 10.0-RELEASE, firefox-27.0.1,1, xorg-7.7. It isn't even specific to FreeBSD. Mark Kettenis (OpenBSD) analyzed the underlying problem, but I can't remember where he posted it. Here's a related comment by him: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-March/041541.html -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de