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

[Andrej Moravcik]

Usualy I am not the first who hit a bug, but ok, I can fill the bug
report to CentOS bugzilla. Or do you think it would be better to report
it to Nvidia support?

Bye, Andrej

chaohacker at non-serviam.com wrote:
>> 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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