Firefox chokes up for several seconds... frequently

Fri Jun 6 21:09:34 UTC 2014

On 2014-06-04, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh at onetel.com> wrote:

> I have experienced firefox and/or xorg apparently freezing for several 
> seconds which seems to be due to loading a page with a large image.

That's a well-known problem.  It can be worked around by setting
MOZ_DISABLE_IMAGE_OPTIMIZE=1 in the environment before starting
firefox.

> This is on 10.0-RELEASE, firefox-27.0.1,1, xorg-7.7.

It isn't even specific to FreeBSD.

Mark Kettenis (OpenBSD) analyzed the underlying problem, but I can't
remember where he posted it.  Here's a related comment by him:
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-March/041541.html

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de