This blog renders very slowly in the latest nightly builds of Mozilla (and Firebird) compared to e.g. the Mozilla Firebird 0.6 release. This is because of a recent regression that I think should be fixed before Mozilla Firebird 0.7 is released. That's all I have to say right now!
Posted by djst at September 7, 2003 5:56 PMIt is slow, but at least it works. I can't see how this can block 1.5/0.7.
Without the workaround that causes the slowdown, Mozilla/Firebird are pretty much unusable on Win95/98/ME. Obviously this needs to be fixed properly, but that (AIUI) requires big archtectural changes, which certainly aren't going to happen in the limited time before the releases. Without a proper fix, the choice is crash-causing memory leaks on Win98 and slowness with big images... slowness with big images is a smaller problem.
Posted by: michaell at September 7, 2003 6:51 PMDon't know how long this has been the case, or if it's related at all, but at the top of this page, where it says "the *bird™ blog", the links to previous entries and main partially obscure the "the *bird™ blog" text.
Just sayin'.
Posted by: Marc R. at September 8, 2003 1:21 AMand after I wrote all that about how it couldn't be fixed, they have checked in a better workaround for the problem. I haven't tried a newer build yet though myself, so I don't know if it helps your blog...
Posted by: michaell at September 10, 2003 6:00 PMI tested this page (http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/djst/archives/004018.html) in the 9/10 Firebird build. Scrolling is exill extremely slow, but it's about 3 times faster than in 9/9.
Maybe try using a 1x1 alpha transparent png instead of the 2000x2000 one you use now? Mozilla has optimizations for some uses of 1x1 images.
Posted by: Jesse Ruderman at September 12, 2003 2:36 AMOr use -moz-opacity instead of a background image.
Posted by: at September 12, 2003 3:48 AMnm, -moz-opacity wouldn't work.
Posted by: at September 12, 2003 3:56 AM