Lately I start getting firefox feeling quite slow, well sluggish from version to version. Today I started a discussion about that with Anarchy and nenolod, in 5 min we found out that the faulty lib was cairo and that the newer cairo snapshot makes things blazing fast again.
In short that is an apology to the firefox devs (and Anarchy) for thinking they are messing things up, a praise for the new cairo and a blame for the current stable one (once Cardoe’s wii addiction fades out probably we’ll have an updated ebuild to get the speedup)
PS:note even if you are fine with the current stable, the cairo .6 is quite suggested if you use boxes with different endianess and X over ssh ^^
A new firefox or cairo snapshot? And whatever it is, where can I get it. I’d like to improve firefox speed..
(Using Anarchy’s svn overlay for the latest december firefox)
On my iMac G4 firefox has been slow with cairo for a while now. However I found that using the moznopango flag dramatically increased the performance – can it be somehow related? On my x86 box moznopango has no impact whatsoever, but I am not sluggish to start with.
Your note in PS may explain the bizarre errors I get when I try to open windows on my G4 from a x86 box.
Need for SPEEDup ?
Sure, get up Cairo 1.3.10 😉
http://cairographics.org/news/cairo.1.3.10