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kokoko3k

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Registered: 2008-11-14

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[SOLVED/INVALID?] Firefox 7 and azure seems bad for linux

With firefox 7, mozilla started to use another backend for canvas display, they called it azure and it is supposed to speed up things, at least in windows by using direct2d.
As far as i know, under linux it falls back to cairo, while in the past cairo was used directly across architectures.

To make the story short, i noticed a reduced speed with Xorg when scrolling webpages (try google news on 6.0.x and 7.0), and i think the cause is azure.

Does anyone knows if it is possible to disable this new 'feature' in 7.0 release?

--EDIT--
In private mode scrolling is fine.

Last edited by kokoko3k (2011-09-28 08:20:58)

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heftig

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Registered: 2010-04-19

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Re: [SOLVED/INVALID?] Firefox 7 and azure seems bad for linux

Could be an extension then?

I doubt this is Azure, since AFAIK Google News doesn't use any <canvas>.

kokoko3k

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Registered: 2008-11-14

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Re: [SOLVED/INVALID?] Firefox 7 and azure seems bad for linux

Extensions survives to private mode in firefox, not like in chromium,

The jerky scroll was related to news.google.* only and guess what, diabling google web history solved the issue.
Really not a problem, less tracking is always better.

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