firefox, scaled images, and performance?

[fred smith]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 04:01:52PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:49:49 -0500
> Tom Horsley wrote:
> 
> > I guess I'll try making
> > a completely new user and see if the new user has the same
> > problem.
> 
> Nope. I see it with a brand new, never before created user
> as well. I get the impression that it doesn't cache anything
> about the scaled image and has to recompute the whole thing
> from scratch to do any kind of screen refresh. Dragging the
> Save As dialog across the scaled image goes really jerky
> and leaves trails that aren't refreshed for a long time.
> Maybe I'll just search for a "don't scale by default"
> about:config setting and turn that on...

that's in VIEW | ZOOM | ZOOM TEXTG ONLY. you don't need to dig
around in about:config, just go there and check the checkbox.


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