Comments on: Firefox 3 cured http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pav/2008/08/07/firefox-3-cured/ Adventures in the Wonderland Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:48:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: "hyperion" http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pav/2008/08/07/firefox-3-cured/#comment-1221 "hyperion" Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:19:10 +0000 http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pav/2008/08/07/firefox-3-cured/#comment-1221 OK, I have dug up this bug report of mine against Solaris about the same issue in Google: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4043 (contains link to patch) OK, I have dug up this bug report of mine against Solaris about the same issue in Google: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4043 (contains link to patch)

]]> By: "hyperion" http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pav/2008/08/07/firefox-3-cured/#comment-1220 "hyperion" Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:10:54 +0000 http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pav/2008/08/07/firefox-3-cured/#comment-1220 This is an age old bug in XAA that cairo brings out. Firefox 3 uses cairo. Recent Xorg releases contain a "fix" of disabling XAA offscreen pixmaps by default (Fedora's idea). Causes no noticable slowdown. EXA offscreen pixmaps work fine, but some drivers still use XAA. The FreeBSD PRs have been closed but this is in fact a very serious bug in Xorg, websites can spy on other windows contents, for example. FreeBSD should fix it in my opinion. Either patching Xorg or upgrading it to some newer release should work. Patches can be found in Red Hat/Novell/Ubuntu bugzillas, etc, or Google XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps or something, it's a 1 line "fix"... PS Interestingly, this is much less serious on FreeBSD than on Linux. This is an age old bug in XAA that cairo brings out. Firefox 3 uses cairo. Recent Xorg releases contain a “fix” of disabling XAA offscreen pixmaps by default (Fedora’s idea). Causes no noticable slowdown. EXA offscreen pixmaps work fine, but some drivers still use XAA.

The FreeBSD PRs have been closed but this is in fact a very serious bug in Xorg, websites can spy on other windows contents, for example. FreeBSD should fix it in my opinion. Either patching Xorg or upgrading it to some newer release should work. Patches can be found in Red Hat/Novell/Ubuntu bugzillas, etc, or Google XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps or something, it’s a 1 line “fix”...

PS Interestingly, this is much less serious on FreeBSD than on Linux.

]]> By: mi http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pav/2008/08/07/firefox-3-cured/#comment-1190 mi Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:57:40 +0000 http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pav/2008/08/07/firefox-3-cured/#comment-1190 So, is a bug or not? In Firefox, Gnome, or X11? So, is a bug or not?

In Firefox, Gnome, or X11?

]]> By: Websites tagged "widgetry" on Postsaver http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pav/2008/08/07/firefox-3-cured/#comment-1187 Websites tagged "widgetry" on Postsaver Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:02:16 +0000 http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pav/2008/08/07/firefox-3-cured/#comment-1187 [...] - Firefox 3 cured saved by patti2008-10-14 - More Cool Location-Based SL Widgetry saved by yoz2008-10-07 - Yes, [...] [...] – Firefox 3 cured saved by patti2008-10-14 – More Cool Location-Based SL Widgetry saved by yoz2008-10-07 – Yes, [...]

]]> By: Recent Faves Tagged With "firefox2" : MyNetFaves http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pav/2008/08/07/firefox-3-cured/#comment-1181 Recent Faves Tagged With "firefox2" : MyNetFaves Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:20:48 +0000 http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pav/2008/08/07/firefox-3-cured/#comment-1181 [...] Browser War - Part 1: Firefox2 vs Firefox3RC1 First saved by wasitfate | 1 days ago Pav Lucistnik: Firefox 3 cured First saved by mancabanas | 1 days ago Firefox 2 and 3 Living Together in Harmony First saved [...] [...] Browser War – Part 1: Firefox2 vs Firefox3RC1 First saved by wasitfate | 1 days ago Pav Lucistnik: Firefox 3 cured First saved by mancabanas | 1 days ago Firefox 2 and 3 Living Together in Harmony First saved [...]

]]> By: Olivier http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pav/2008/08/07/firefox-3-cured/#comment-1121 Olivier Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:45:01 +0000 http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pav/2008/08/07/firefox-3-cured/#comment-1121 Yeah, thank you very much ! I had the same problem, but I thank it was a problem with a library or my CFLAGS. I made a big switch from 7.0/i386/UP to 7-STABLE/amd64/SMP. I use the "nv" driver because nvidia-driver can' be used with amd64... Yeah, thank you very much ! I had the same problem, but I thank it was a problem with a library or my CFLAGS. I made a big switch from 7.0/i386/UP to 7-STABLE/amd64/SMP. I use the “nv” driver because nvidia-driver can’ be used with amd64…

]]> By: pav http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pav/2008/08/07/firefox-3-cured/#comment-1120 pav Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:10:38 +0000 http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pav/2008/08/07/firefox-3-cured/#comment-1120 I should have stated that mine was on unrecognized RV515 based card driven by radeonhd driver. I should have stated that mine was on unrecognized RV515 based card driven by radeonhd driver.

]]> By: mezz http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pav/2008/08/07/firefox-3-cured/#comment-1119 mezz Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:38:46 +0000 http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pav/2008/08/07/firefox-3-cured/#comment-1119 Just a FYI: I can reproduce this problem with 'nv' xorg driver, but I can't reproduce it with nvidia-driver. There was discuss in freebsd-gnome@ list, btw. Just a FYI: I can reproduce this problem with ‘nv’ xorg driver, but I can’t reproduce it with nvidia-driver. There was discuss in freebsd-gnome@ list, btw.

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