firefox, scaled images, and performance?

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:13:24 -0800
Konstantin Svist wrote:

> You're not crazy, you just didn't describe how to reproduce the problem.
> Using above example, open the Save Image dialog but don't bother 
> browsing. Instead, just drag it around the screen in front of the image 
> -- it's VERY slow compared to unscaled.

Yea, I discovered later that was a good way to notice problems
as well. It is kind of hard to guess exactly which things are
going to be slow. I wonder if this is another manifestation of
the cairo bug (628331). I'll have to try downloading the mozilla
binaries and see if I see the same slowdown.