Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 20:10:35 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox chokes up for several seconds... frequently Message-ID: <539363AB.9080908@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <slrnlp49lb.m8l.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> References: <58088.1401822414@server1.tristatelogic.com> <538F5770.2030707@onetel.com> <slrnlp49lb.m8l.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
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On 06/06/2014 21:38, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > On 2014-06-04, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> 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 > Thanks for the heads up. In fact I've set gfx.xrender.enabled to false as suggested elsewhere and that works. Chris
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