Well I built the Granparadiso Firefox with the methods Gavin
suggested tonight and I
also made the tweak to the patch to reduce the time to hold
pixmaps in cache (I went
toward the extreme side and changed it to .2 seconds). And
it appears as though
firefox absolutely will not crash any more due to pixmaps.
However as Gavin noted speed
on ridiculous sites such as the one I posted go to
ssssllllloooooowwww. But who really
cares if a site that poorly designed loads slow, it is way
better than a client freeze.
Any other browsing seemed to perform perfectly with
scrolling smooth and sites like
Google images still loading all thumbnails just fine and
quick. Now this is definitely
not as good as Opera which loads even the stupid sites
quickly, but is way better in my
opinion. I seem to be able to play flash and such just
fine. Now I am sure that using
this very pre-release of Firefox 3 will lead to other
stability issues, but it does make
Firefox usage in the future look much more viable. Thanks
for you help on this Gavin.
I am going to post the results of this back to the Firefox
bug I filed and hint toward
getting it to work as nicely as Opera without pixmap cache
(probably get flamed for it).
But at least with some playing around with the cache time
out this could possibly be
made very usable.
Jim Kronebusch
Cotter Tech Department
453-5188
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