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blamed

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Registered: 2009-10-27

Posts: 15

Libwebkit(webkit-gtk) based browsers very slow on some sites

Tried midori, epiphany and vimprobable.
Slow performance on google reader, when viewing feeds.
On some apple pages, for example: http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/ (100% cpu usage and browser freezes for few minutes).
And some others.

At the same time in arora(webkit-qt based) all working fast and smooth.

So.. i'am wondering, is it only me? Or is it Arch version of libwebkit? Or maybe this is global issue?

p.s. i'am using x86_64 OS.

p.p.s. oh, and sorry for my bad english..

bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: Libwebkit(webkit-gtk) based browsers very slow on some sites

Confirmed with midori. The apple page you mention does not even completely display. The navigation sidebar is missing here.

It appears to be an issue with the gtk implementation of webkit. I keep firefox for those (rare) cases.

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combuster

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-09-30

Posts: 711

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Re: Libwebkit(webkit-gtk) based browsers very slow on some sites

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42052

http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/70688

This has been merged since the 1.3.6 dev release, I've tried to backport the patch to 1.2.5 but with very limited success (API has been bumped big time and if cairo patch passes something else breaks).

You can very easily use PKBUILD from libwebkit-gtk in extra to build 1.3.7 dev version.

http://webkitgtk.org/webkit-1.3.7.tar.gz

Compiling on my laptop takes forever it seems so I didn't want to maintain this one in AUR, if someone else is willing to do this then great It's one thing to have fun for myself, entirely different to be responsible for something many others are using.