FS#41943 - [firefox] 32.0-1 switching tabs slow and graphical glitches

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Reed Law (reedlaw) - Friday, 12 September 2014, 01:54 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Thursday, 18 September 2014, 17:59 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Ionut Biru (wonder)
Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Tab switching experiences intermittent slowness, sometimes taking over 10 seconds. Occasionally, switching tabs will cause the entire page to flicker rapidly until all areas of the page are repainted (sometimes taking several seconds).

Additional info:
* First reported here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065236
* On Bugzilla it was suggested I try an official Mozilla binary. I tried firefox-esr-bin from the AUR (version 31.1.0-1) and it does not exhibit the problem behavior. It was surmised that the Arch modifications and linking of different libraries might be to blame.

Steps to reproduce:
Using Firefox for more than a couple of minutes usually causes the issue to surface. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065236 for specific steps that exhibited the behavior on my system.
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Closed by  Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Thursday, 18 September 2014, 17:59 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Additional comments about closing:  Not a Firefox bug; it seems to be related to GNOME and the NVIDIA drivers as mentioned in the upstream reports.
Comment by Reed Law (reedlaw) - Monday, 15 September 2014, 08:26 GMT
I've re-opened the Bugzilla bug and submitted a profile of by browsing session. They suggest it may be related to the window manager. I'm trying out a new window manager to see if that's the case.

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