I posted several months ago about degraded performance when viewing
a certain websites using Firefox.  By chance I discovered this
morning that this behaviour appears to be caused by the ATI binary
drivers: the performance issues don't appear when using the VESA
drivers.

On a related note, I finally made a package for installing the ATI
binary drivers, which is currently in wip/ati-xfree86-bin.  This
package installs the latest and greatest -- which unfortunately
still has this same performance issue!

Brian.

On 2007.03.09 15:37:18 -0600, Brian de Alwis wrote:
> I've noticed that viewing pages from two particular sites cause
> significant delays when switching to another window.  I've tried
> this with a natively-compiled Firefox 2, and Seamonkey for Linux
> (under Linux compat).  The sites in particular are:
> 
>     www.studio360.org
>     www.maisonneuve.org
> 
> It's not just that the browser performance degrades (switching
> between tabs, for example, takes several seconds) -- it also affects
> other applications.  Switching to another window (for example, to
> type this e-mail) will result in a 3-4 second delay before any text
> appears.  Switching to a tab displaying some webpage that is not
> from these sites restores the normal performance.
> 
> Is this just my machine?  Or do other people see it as well?
> 
> Brian.
> 
> -- 
>   Brian de Alwis | Software Practices Lab | UBC | http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~bsd/
>       "Amusement to an observing mind is study." - Benjamin Disraeli

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  Brian de Alwis | Software Practices Lab | UBC | http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~bsd/
      "Amusement to an observing mind is study." - Benjamin Disraeli