firefox ui slow

Henster · 07-23-2005, 02:20 PM

Hey,

FIrst off, I'm not complaining about the load up speed of firefox.... Its the ui speed once you're in.

Just resizing the window causes it to chug. I.e. During resizing I see weird ghosting effects.

I've got 3d acceleration enabled.

I'm on suse 9.3 with a 2.2ghz chip and a gig of ram using firefox 1.0.4.

Anybody else getting this?

cheers
h

titanium_geek · 07-23-2005, 03:22 PM

does an upgrade to 1.0.6 (which you should do for security reasons anyway) help?

titanium_geek

Henster · 07-24-2005, 04:55 AM

Ok, just upgraded and I'm being an idiot.

The problem is not specific to firefox. Openoffice is slow when resizing windows, so is amarok to mention a couple. Knoqueror is fine incidently.

This must be an X problem right? 3d acceleration is working because I can play all those 3d games that come free.

Whats going on?

-h

titanium_geek · 07-24-2005, 08:34 AM

yep- it's an x problem. umm... are you using KDE and are all the KDE specific programs working fine (re resizing drag) ?

titanium_geek

Henster · 07-24-2005, 12:18 PM

Yeah, I'm using KDE and they're all really slow. i.e. control center, kontact, amarok

??

Cheers
H

mrcheeks · 07-24-2005, 01:04 PM

Is your computer slow?

titanium_geek · 07-24-2005, 02:14 PM

or perhaps it is a problem with qt or gtk ?

what if it is a RAM problem? or a swap problem? (clutching at straws here) can you replace the stick of RAM for testing purposes?

titanium_geek

Crito · 07-24-2005, 02:32 PM

Sounds like a video card driver issue to me. I'd look for updated drivers first. If you can't find any try disabling any fancy window effects you may be using, like transparent menus/windows/etc.