firefox3 with high latencies when acting with mouse or keyboard and graphics refresh

[Jeff Laine]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:42:56PM +0000, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Hello,
> got a problem since yesterday after having done a lot of updates 
> (ports): on all of my FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT/amd64 boxes firefox does have 
> enormous high latencies when typing in or moving the mouse or popping up 
> the window icon or down. Since this happens on all of 8.0-CUR/amd boxes, 
> I guess it has something to do with an upgrade of the ports.
> 
> I reinstalled firefox twice, but without success, so I want to ask for 
> some hints..
> 
> Regards,
> Oliver


It is unlikely your case, but I've had similar issues with firefox on my laptop 
with intel video under 7.2-PRERELEASE.
Setting video driver option "AccelMethod" to old XAA mode in xorg.conf helped a lot.




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Best regards,
Jeff

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