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

2010-07-01 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> The more I experience it, the more it seems clear that this issue only > happens with GMail / Google Apps. So I really think that this is > either a GMail or a Firefox issue. Just to close this: since the official update to Firefox 3.6, the problem disappeared. __

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

2010-06-03 Thread chaohacker
> 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? > File CentOS bug after searching to see if it exists. Then it will be decided whether or not it is sent upstream. Am I correct a

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

2010-06-03 Thread 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 chaohac...@non-serviam.com wrote: >> I couldn't find anything about this on the web. Firefox downgrade didn't >> help, but

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

2010-06-03 Thread MHR
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > > I removed the nvidia driver from elrepo and installed this one from > Nvidia website, but it did not solve my problem. > > The more I experience it, the more it seems clear that this issue only > happens with GMail / Google Apps. So I rea

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

2010-06-03 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> 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 I removed the nvidia driver from elrepo and installed this one from Nvidia website, but it did not solv

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

2010-06-02 Thread chaohacker
> 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?

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

2010-06-02 Thread Andrej Moravcik
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

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

2010-05-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/27/2010 2:47 PM, MHR wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On 5/27/2010 1:49 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> >>> Sorry, I don't understand what you wrote. How does Linux make it >>> "difficult to impossible"? It's an o/s, with POSIX calls, just like all >>> the oth

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

2010-05-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/27/2010 2:06 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >>> Sorry, I don't understand what you wrote. How does Linux make it >>> "difficult to impossible"? It's an o/s, with POSIX calls, just like all >>> the other unices. It's not M$, and it's not Apple... so is being neither >>> making it hard? >> >> For

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

2010-05-27 Thread MHR
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 5/27/2010 1:49 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> >> Sorry, I don't understand what you wrote. How does Linux make it >> "difficult to impossible"? It's an o/s, with POSIX calls, just like all >> the other unices. It's not M$, and it's not App

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

2010-05-27 Thread m . roth
> On 5/27/2010 1:49 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Ah, no, it's not. Brian had it right: nvidia does keep a lot proprietary, and does *not* pay a lot of attention to writing their own drivers for Linux. >>> >>> Exactly - and it is linux that intentionally makes it difficult to

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

2010-05-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/27/2010 1:49 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >>> >>> Ah, no, it's not. Brian had it right: nvidia does keep a lot >>> proprietary, and does *not* pay a lot of attention to writing their >>> own drivers for Linux. >> >> Exactly - and it is linux that intentionally makes it difficult to >> imposs

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

2010-05-27 Thread m . roth
> On 5/27/2010 1:39 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Les wrote: >>> On 5/27/2010 1:00 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > Thanks for the hint! > I tried the workaround but unfortunately I still have the problem... I cured my nvidia driver problems (which re-arose every kernel update

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

2010-05-27 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
> > nvidia is not fond of the Linux world (compared to ATI). > > A more realistic way to say that is that linux is > intentionally incompatible with a lot of other software. AIUI, nvidia gives (to the linux world) less information about how to exploit nvidia capabilities than does ATI, and th

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

2010-05-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/27/2010 1:39 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Les wrote: >> On 5/27/2010 1:00 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > I had somewhat similar problems. This is a shot in the dark, but do > you happen to have a Nvidia controller in your system? If > so, you may have been affected by this bu

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

2010-05-27 Thread m . roth
Les wrote: > On 5/27/2010 1:00 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: >>> I had somewhat similar problems. This is a shot in the dark, but do you happen to have a Nvidia controller in your system? If so, you may have been affected by this bug: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4335

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

2010-05-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/27/2010 1:00 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > >> >>> I had somewhat similar problems. This is a shot in the dark, but do >>> you happen to have a Nvidia controller in your system? If >> so, you may >>> have been affected by this bug: >>> >>> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4335 >>> >>> There

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

2010-05-27 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Mathieu Baudier > Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 1:33 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Firefox slower on GMail since update to > CentOS 5.5

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

2010-05-27 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> I had somewhat similar problems. This is a shot in the dark, but do > you happen to have a Nvidia controller in your system? If so, you may > have been affected by this bug: > > http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4335 > > There is a workaround which solved the problem for me. Thanks for the hint

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

2010-05-27 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:14 AM, 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 conver