Comment 97 for bug 217580

Here's the data of the same firefox scrolling test, this time with nv
driver.

It seems a little bit better, Xorg draws a little less CPU consumption
compared with nouveau, but it is still the bottleneck as you can see.

See attachment.

2009/5/2 aatdark <email address hidden>

> i can confirm bad behaviour on Intel 4500MHD. (After extensive scrolling
> the windows turns gray and keeps scrolling)
> hope the bug will be fixed in FF 3.5
>
> --
> Slow performance with Gmail
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217580
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> Status in XUL + XPCOM application runner: Confirmed
> Status in “firefox-3.0” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in “xulrunner-1.9” source package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
>
> When scrolling in Gmail (and other websites however its not as noticable)
> the scrolling performance is terrible. There is a slight lag from when it
> starts to scroll to when it actually does scroll. On my Windows XP machine
> it is MUCH faster (basically instant). This is present with both Compiz
> enabled and disabled.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Tue Apr 15 01:01:46 2008
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
> PackageArchitecture: i386
> ProcEnviron:
>
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
> Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686
>