[CentOS] Firefox slower on GMail since update to CentOS 5.5

[chaohacker at non-serviam.com]

> I couldn't find anything about this on the web. Firefox downgrade didn't 
> help, but finaly I realized that I upgraded nvidia driver too - problem 
> disapeared right after downgrade to nvidia driver 
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.22-pkg2.run. 
>
Do you think this worth filing a bug report against?

On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 10:29:03PM +0200, Andrej Moravcik wrote:
> Hi Mathieu, I had the same problem with Firefox since I upgraded to 
> CentOS 5.5.
> 
> I noticed very slow (almost unusable) Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g 
> (Database Control, Grid Control and Application Server Control) and MS 
> SharePoint pages, high X.org cpu usage and noisy fans activity.
> 
> I couldn't find anything about this on the web. Firefox downgrade didn't 
> help, but finaly I realized that I upgraded nvidia driver too - problem 
> disapeared right after downgrade to nvidia driver 
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.22-pkg2.run. There are alse other versions 
> between, but this one is the last one IMHO where PowerMizer works as 
> expected (at least on my laptop).
> 
> My configuration is CentOS 5.5 x86_64 @ Dell Latitude D830, Nvidia 
> Quadro NVS 140M.
> 
> 
> Bye, Andrej
> 
> Mathieu Baudier wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > since I upgraded from CentOS x86_64 5.4 to 5.5, I noticed that Firefox
> > has become significantly slower on GMail (or Google Apps Mail).
> > 
> > The page becomes slow to scroll as soon as there are more than a few
> > mails in a conversation (like in a typical CentOS mailing list
> > thread).
> > 
> > Did anyone else notice that as well?
> > (I guess that I'm not the only GMail user around)
> > Could I have missed something / do something wrong?
> > 
> > More details:
> > - I did a fresh install from the 5.5 install DVD, keeping only the
> > home directories
> > - I'm using the Nvidia driver from elrepo (but I had the pb also with
> > the default driver)
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Mathieu
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